Principal Database Administrator H-1B wages

Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026. Most are classified as Database Administrators (SOC 15-1242).

Employers filed 29 wage applications for Principal Database Administrator jobs from July 2025 to June 2026, across 9 employers. The median offered wage was $136,448, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the job. Fidelity Technology Group, LLC d/b/a Fidelity Investments filed the most (19, median $136,448).

Filings: 29
Positions covered: 29
Employers: 9
Median offered: $136,448
Median prevailing wage: $124,072
Filings since FY2020: 200
Median offer change since FY2020: +36%

Principal Database Administrator, all employers29 filings, July 2025 to June 2026

$136,448Median wage employers told the government they would pay

$125,119 to $138,965Where the middle half of the filings fall

$124,072Prevailing wage: the legal minimum for these jobs

Offered wage since 2020

The median wage offered for Principal Database Administrator jobs rose 36%, from $100,298 in fiscal 2020 to $136,448 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2022, with 34 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

Fiscal years run October to September. Fiscal 2026 is still running: these figures cover October 2025 to June 2026.

Principal Database Administrator by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	27	$136,448	+6.9%	$124,072	at the minimum
2025	26	$127,587	+11.3%	$119,278	+2.6%
2024	33	$114,608	+5.1%	$108,659	+1.3%
2023	24	$109,013	−4.4%	$108,555	at the minimum
2022	34	$114,005	+11.4%	$106,059	+1.3%
2021	30	$102,294	+2.0%	$99,154	+1.3%
2020	26	$100,298	n/a	$97,323	at the minimum

Employers that file for this title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Employer	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Fidelity Technology Group, LLC d/b/a Fidelity Investments	19	$136,448	at the minimum
Infor (US), LLC	2	$181,716	+43.9%
Paychex North America Inc.	2	$143,896	+16.0%
Belkin International Inc.	1	$134,763	at the minimum
SEI Investments Company	1	$160,000	+21.1%
Cotiviti, Inc.	1	$157,000	+29.9%
Chen Tech, LLC	1	$116,251	at the minimum
University of Colorado	1	$122,917	+60.7%
American Credit Acceptance, LLC	1	$149,250	+27.1%

Where Principal Database Administrator jobs are filed

Worksite	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Durham, NC	8	$136,448	+10.0%
Westlake, TX	8	$131,029	at the minimum
Merrimack, NH	2	$134,148	at the minimum
Mountain House, CA	2	$181,716	+43.9%
Alpharetta, GA	1	$144,212	+12.8%
Bentonville, AR	1	$122,917	+60.7%
Carver, MN	1	$157,000	+29.9%
El Segundo, CA	1	$134,763	at the minimum
Greer, SC	1	$149,250	+27.1%
Mason, OH	1	$143,579	+19.2%
Miami Gardens, FL	1	$116,251	at the minimum
Morrisville, NC	1	$136,448	at the minimum
Oaks, PA	1	$160,000	+21.1%

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry0%

Level II, qualified5%

Level III, experienced10%

Level IV, fully competent86%

The government assigns each job one of four wage levels. A higher level means a higher legal minimum.

What these numbers are

They are wages employers attested to on Labor Condition Applications (Form ETA-9035), not paychecks. Bonuses and stock are not included.
A filing is not a visa or a hire. One filing can cover several positions, and some are later withdrawn. Wage figures use certified filings only.
The prevailing wage is the minimum the employer must pay for that job in that area, set from government wage surveys.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.