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H-1B salary explorer
The wages employers attested on certified H-1B LCAs, as DOL published them. Filter by occupation, state or year. Have an offer? See where it falls.
What does this job pay on an H-1B?
Every offered wage in DOL's disclosure files, filtered. The figures describe only the LCAs you select.
All occupations · every state · all years
3,559,804 LCAs with a usable wage
5th percentile
$62,000
Median
$110,000
Average
$121,324
95th percentile
$212,202
Half of these LCAs fall between $86,029 and $145,000, the 25th and 75th percentiles.
Where the wages land
Each bar is a $10,000 band. 290,476 LCAs sit outside this range and are counted but not drawn, so the axis isn't stretched by a handful of outliers.
- $60,000 194,023
- $70,000 311,183
- $80,000 363,383
- $90,000 412,451
- $100,000 341,920
- $110,000 300,172
- $120,000 273,381
- $130,000 225,405
- $140,000 191,395
- $150,000 166,833
- $160,000 133,618
- $170,000 107,079
- $180,000 91,732
- $190,000 61,462
- $200,000 57,109
- $210,000 38,182
By worksite state
States with at least 30 matching LCAs, most first. Each bar runs from the 5th to the 95th percentile on one shared scale, and the dark green mark is the median.
- CA $143,600
- TX $103,210
- NY $120,000
- WA $144,000
- NJ $108,680
- IL $96,928
- MA $110,000
- GA $102,000
- NC $105,000
- FL $95,000
- PA $96,000
- VA $104,000
- MI $95,000
- OH $93,100
- AZ $100,000
All 55 states, as a table
| State | Cases | 5th | Median | Average | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA | 692,841 | $71,718 | $143,600 | $147,481 | $235,000 |
| TX | 481,033 | $65,000 | $103,210 | $111,456 | $178,300 |
| NY | 289,551 | $60,250 | $120,000 | $133,787 | $250,000 |
| WA | 216,434 | $79,227 | $144,000 | $146,569 | $220,000 |
| NJ | 186,849 | $67,766 | $108,680 | $116,343 | $190,000 |
| IL | 157,988 | $62,234 | $96,928 | $109,239 | $190,000 |
| MA | 133,146 | $60,000 | $110,000 | $117,524 | $198,632 |
| GA | 132,531 | $61,672 | $102,000 | $109,039 | $175,184 |
| NC | 130,236 | $62,712 | $105,000 | $110,240 | $168,394 |
| FL | 111,990 | $56,576 | $95,000 | $106,750 | $187,905 |
| PA | 102,979 | $60,000 | $96,000 | $107,937 | $187,000 |
| VA | 95,938 | $65,642 | $104,000 | $112,871 | $178,400 |
| MI | 94,521 | $61,651 | $95,000 | $101,726 | $160,000 |
| OH | 76,904 | $59,937 | $93,100 | $103,306 | $170,000 |
| AZ | 62,149 | $60,000 | $100,000 | $107,310 | $174,173 |
| MD | 47,139 | $62,500 | $100,069 | $109,901 | $176,800 |
| MN | 44,733 | $56,930 | $95,816 | $104,615 | $168,178 |
| CT | 42,156 | $65,291 | $97,698 | $110,947 | $200,000 |
| TN | 39,965 | $56,500 | $91,000 | $100,747 | $165,672 |
| MO | 39,890 | $54,808 | $90,189 | $102,790 | $187,193 |
| CO | 38,823 | $60,000 | $105,000 | $112,242 | $182,747 |
| IN | 34,135 | $56,800 | $87,360 | $101,331 | $193,306 |
| OR | 29,917 | $65,562 | $104,740 | $114,781 | $190,357 |
| WI | 28,055 | $52,770 | $90,000 | $105,807 | $210,000 |
| AR | 22,661 | $57,262 | $96,627 | $108,282 | $187,200 |
| UT | 20,433 | $53,000 | $91,208 | $101,365 | $173,600 |
| SC | 18,669 | $47,779 | $88,800 | $101,876 | $190,000 |
| DC | 18,053 | $59,737 | $102,107 | $116,641 | $220,000 |
| DE | 16,904 | $64,429 | $106,184 | $117,029 | $199,018 |
| KY | 15,568 | $57,054 | $86,400 | $107,400 | $239,200 |
| IA | 15,031 | $52,112 | $86,965 | $108,058 | $260,000 |
| KS | 13,644 | $50,617 | $87,402 | $102,556 | $202,613 |
| NE | 10,935 | $51,760 | $90,000 | $100,510 | $171,582 |
| RI | 10,250 | $64,700 | $100,006 | $111,871 | $209,998 |
| NV | 10,120 | $57,469 | $100,000 | $115,095 | $220,000 |
| AL | 10,104 | $52,000 | $87,381 | $116,489 | $291,200 |
| LA | 9,792 | $45,883 | $84,053 | $115,406 | $318,420 |
| NH | 9,205 | $61,755 | $100,000 | $111,395 | $190,000 |
| OK | 8,790 | $43,252 | $82,447 | $100,805 | $242,634 |
| NM | 6,682 | $46,093 | $81,349 | $105,468 | $283,400 |
| ID | 5,243 | $56,788 | $100,000 | $106,379 | $167,184 |
| MS | 4,502 | $44,550 | $78,063 | $114,229 | $320,000 |
| GU | 3,509 | $35,764 | $54,808 | $63,802 | $100,000 |
| ME | 2,819 | $52,000 | $91,000 | $139,648 | $410,000 |
| WV | 2,816 | $50,500 | $114,639 | $176,078 | $472,342 |
| ND | 2,728 | $45,000 | $70,000 | $101,706 | $318,524 |
| SD | 2,447 | $43,826 | $70,096 | $108,764 | $327,100 |
| HI | 2,031 | $52,000 | $90,000 | $109,177 | $239,200 |
| VT | 1,661 | $49,517 | $87,000 | $108,372 | $265,483 |
| AK | 1,461 | $54,560 | $77,694 | $96,518 | $200,000 |
| MT | 1,340 | $41,600 | $72,800 | $105,450 | $360,000 |
| WY | 1,050 | $48,132 | $82,000 | $109,869 | $288,000 |
| PR | 655 | $32,496 | $69,336 | $87,769 | $200,000 |
| MP | 515 | $25,617 | $45,053 | $51,623 | $82,998 |
| VI | 282 | $33,877 | $51,231 | $61,536 | $124,750 |
FAQs
What wage is this?
The wage the employer attested on the Labor Condition Application, the form that has to be certified before an H-1B petition can be filed. It must meet or beat the prevailing wage for the occupation and area. DOL publishes it in its quarterly LCA disclosure files, which is where every figure here comes from.
Why are hourly filings mixed in with yearly ones?
Because employers quote the unit they pay in. Every figure is annualised first: an hourly wage times 2,080 hours, a monthly wage times 12, a weekly one times 52. A filing outside $10,000 to $1,500,000 a year is treated as a data defect and left out, and so is one whose amount can't be pay for the unit it names (an hourly figure of $10,000 or more, or a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly one of $40,000 or more): those are yearly salaries filed under the wrong unit. They stay in the case search exactly as DOL printed them, marked.
Which filings are in the window?
The FY2026 disclosure files, which cover LCAs decided from October 1, 2025. Earlier fiscal years are loaded one at a time. The provenance line below says what's held today.
Why does a filter sometimes show no figures?
Because the selection is too thin. Below 30 filings a median moves by thousands when a single filing lands, so nothing is shown. Between 30 and 100 filings, the tails are withheld and the middle is kept.
Is this the same as a prevailing wage level?
No. DOL sets the four prevailing wage levels on the OES survey, at roughly the 17th, 34th, 50th and 67th percentiles of what everyone in the occupation earns. These are the wages employers attested on H-1B filings, a different population, and usually a higher one.
LCA disclosures through Jun 30, 2026. How these figures are counted. Spotted an error? Tell us; every fix is dated in the corrections log.
The sources in full
LCA disclosures: DOL quarterly LCA disclosure files (www.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly
What this data includes
LCA disclosures: Certified and denied H-1B labor condition applications only, with the wage offered.
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