Specialist H-1B wages

Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026. Most are classified as Biochemists and Biophysicists (SOC 19-1021).

Employers filed 98 wage applications for Specialist jobs from July 2025 to June 2026, across 21 employers. The median offered wage was $102,441, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the job. University of California, San Francisco filed the most (46, median $93,200).

Filings: 98
Positions covered: 94
Employers: 21
Median offered: $102,441
Median prevailing wage: $99,788
Filings since FY2020: 630
Median offer change since FY2020: −3%

Specialist, all employers98 filings, July 2025 to June 2026

$102,441Median wage employers told the government they would pay

$93,200 to $133,767Where the middle half of the filings fall

$99,788Prevailing wage: the legal minimum for these jobs

Offered wage since 2020

The median wage offered for Specialist jobs fell 3%, from $106,000 in fiscal 2020 to $102,400 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2020, with 119 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.

Specialist by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	75	$102,400	no change	$97,760	at the minimum
2025	86	$102,400	+1.1%	$93,200	at the minimum
2024	69	$101,300	−0.3%	$90,000	at the minimum
2023	84	$101,619	−9.0%	$91,961	at the minimum
2022	94	$111,659	+3.5%	$87,006	+7.2%
2021	103	$107,900	+1.8%	$85,904	+10.0%
2020	119	$106,000	n/a	$88,754	+25.5%

Employers that file for this title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Employer	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
University of California, San Francisco	46	$93,200	at the minimum
McKinsey & Company, Inc. United States	14	$200,000	+79.8%
University of California, Irvine	6	$93,200	at the minimum
Regents of the University of California at Riverside	4	$108,353	at the minimum
University of California at Santa Barbara	3	$103,688	at the minimum
Ibase Operations Corp.	3	$86,583	+5.1%
University of California, Berkeley	3	$128,400	at the minimum
TransUnion LLC	3	$87,214	at the minimum
Eaton Corporation	2	$142,147	+5.5%
TransUnion Interactive, Inc.	2	$92,092	at the minimum
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio	2	$189,280	+5.1%
SDG Consulting US Inc.	1	$139,506	at the minimum
University of California, Davis	1	$86,900	at the minimum
D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P.	1	$250,000	+55.5%
Michigan State University	1	$61,922	at the minimum
Delta Air Lines, Inc.	1	$112,476	+15.1%
Autoliv ASP Inc.	1	$150,883	+32.8%
University of California, Santa Cruz	1	$130,000	at the minimum
Pacific Investment Management Company LLC	1	$160,500	+150.5%
XL Global Services, Inc.	1	$134,722	at the minimum
AMOREPACIFIC US, Inc.	1	$75,000	+21.4%

Where Specialist jobs are filed

Worksite	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
San Francisco, CA	48	$93,200	at the minimum
Irvine, CA	6	$93,200	at the minimum
New York, NY	6	$201,500	+69.1%
Atlanta, GA	4	$163,361	+64.9%
Riverside, CA	4	$108,353	at the minimum
Berkeley, CA	3	$128,400	at the minimum
Santa Barbara, CA	3	$103,688	at the minimum
Alpharetta, GA	2	$86,583	+5.1%
Newark, NJ	2	$204,000	+67.3%
San Antonio, TX	2	$189,280	+5.1%
Bedminster, NJ	1	$139,506	at the minimum
Bend, OR	1	$106,000	+30.5%
Cary, NC	1	$87,214	at the minimum
Chicago, IL	1	$81,702	at the minimum
Darien, CT	1	$192,000	+29.4%
East Lansing, MI	1	$61,922	at the minimum
Golden, CO	1	$141,294	at the minimum
Jersey City, NJ	1	$109,491	at the minimum
Minneapolis, MN	1	$93,200	at the minimum
Moon Township, PA	1	$143,000	+11.0%
Newport Beach, CA	1	$160,500	+150.5%
Ogden, UT	1	$150,883	+32.8%
Philadelphia, PA	1	$200,000	+86.5%
Redwood City, CA	1	$208,000	+25.5%
Sacramento, CA	1	$86,900	at the minimum

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry9%

Level II, qualified49%

Level III, experienced29%

Level IV, fully competent14%

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.
6 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.