Senior Associate H-1B wages

Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026. Most are classified as Computer Systems Engineers/Architects (SOC 15-1299.08).

Employers filed 3,203 wage applications for Senior Associate jobs from July 2025 to June 2026, across 231 employers. The median offered wage was $92,581, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the job. Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp filed the most (2,219, median $90,002).

Filings: 3,203
Positions covered: 3,281
Employers: 231
Median offered: $92,581
Median prevailing wage: $91,374
Filings since FY2020: 21,921
Median offer change since FY2020: +18%

Senior Associate, all employers3,203 filings, July 2025 to June 2026

$92,581Median wage employers told the government they would pay

$85,000 to $118,310Where the middle half of the filings fall

$91,374Prevailing wage: the legal minimum for these jobs

Offered wage since 2020

The median wage offered for Senior Associate jobs rose 18%, from $78,146 in fiscal 2020 to $92,581 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2024, with 4,888 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.

Senior Associate by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	2,438	$92,581	+4.2%	$91,811	at the minimum
2025	4,247	$88,837	+8.1%	$86,840	at the minimum
2024	4,888	$82,202	−5.6%	$79,872	at the minimum
2023	3,080	$87,069	−2.1%	$78,478	at the minimum
2022	2,996	$88,900	−2.5%	$76,856	at the minimum
2021	1,134	$91,164	+16.7%	$83,637	at the minimum
2020	3,138	$78,146	n/a	$77,750	at the minimum

Employers that file for this title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Employer	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp	2,219	$90,002	at the minimum
PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory Services LLC	315	$162,000	+51.7%
KPMG LLP	68	$113,900	+16.4%
PwC US Tax LLP	53	$124,000	+43.3%
PwC US Consulting LLP	37	$142,000	+35.7%
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP	36	$116,500	+25.5%
Standish Management US, LLC	22	$84,250	+14.8%
New York Life Insurance Company	19	$126,818	at the minimum
TheMathCompany, Inc.	18	$120,000	+11.1%
Boston Consulting Group, Inc.	18	$145,000	+69.6%
PwC US Business Advisory LLP	14	$165,000	+49.3%
Alvarez & Marsal Private Equity Performance Improvement Group, LLC	8	$150,000	+42.8%
Megha Info LLC.	8	$98,301	at the minimum
Citadel Americas Services LLC	8	$125,000	+5.7%
KMK Consulting, Inc.	7	$110,000	+5.7%
PwC US Group LLP	7	$137,000	+14.9%
Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc.	7	$135,000	+24.8%
Alvarez & Marsal Tax, LLC	7	$95,000	+37.4%
Galaxy US Opco Inc.	6	$105,061	+12.1%
Weaver and Tidwell, L.L.P.	6	$95,000	+13.6%
Rocky Mountain Institute, Inc.	6	$84,170	+12.5%
Emory University	5	$88,522	+7.5%
Brookfield Asset Management LLC	5	$250,000	+109.6%
Alvarez & Marsal Transaction Advisory Group, LLC	4	$130,000	+26.5%
Balyasny Asset Management, L.P.	4	$175,000	+48.0%

Showing the 25 employers with the most filings of 231. Employers with fewer than 5 filings in total are counted but not named.

Where Senior Associate jobs are filed

Worksite	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
New York, NY	311	$160,000	+27.8%
Plano, TX	111	$92,581	at the minimum
Chicago, IL	99	$145,000	+29.4%
Hartford, CT	91	$84,178	at the minimum
Atlanta, GA	80	$89,496	at the minimum
Charlotte, NC	77	$86,798	at the minimum
Irving, TX	67	$92,581	at the minimum
Washington, DC	54	$140,500	+29.0%
Dallas, TX	51	$136,000	+26.6%
San Francisco, CA	50	$154,000	+26.7%
Boston, MA	48	$125,000	+17.8%
Manchester, CT	42	$81,765	at the minimum
Houston, TX	40	$119,500	+34.2%
Austin, TX	37	$90,605	at the minimum
Alpharetta, GA	35	$86,445	at the minimum
Jersey City, NJ	35	$94,682	at the minimum
Los Angeles, CA	35	$123,240	+32.9%
Seattle, WA	33	$150,000	+21.6%
Tampa, FL	33	$82,950	at the minimum
Frisco, TX	30	$92,581	at the minimum
San Jose, CA	26	$139,443	+14.0%
Columbus, OH	24	$94,266	at the minimum
Edison, NJ	23	$94,682	at the minimum
Bentonville, AR	22	$71,663	+1.9%
Phoenix, AZ	22	$93,538	at the minimum

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry2%

Level II, qualified89%

Level III, experienced6%

Level IV, fully competent3%

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.
5 filings are for part-time work. Hourly wages are shown as full-time equivalents (2,080 hours a year).

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