Median certified base salary by fiscal year inside the p25–p75 band — $74k in FY2016 to $120k in FY2025. Every year, not just the snapshot.
Share of filings at each OEWS prevailing-wage level (I–IV) — the lever in the new lottery. Higher levels earn more entries in the wage-weighted lottery.
Share of 489,820 certified filings · FY2020
Every dot is an employer with ≥ 50 certified filings (FY2020): further right files more, higher up pays more; pink marks the major sponsors and premium payers. Hover a dot for that employer's base-salary distribution by year.
Change in median base salary, FY2019 → FY2020, among sponsors with ≥ 150 filings in both years. Green raised pay, red cut it.
○ FY2019 median · ● FY2020 median
Median certified base salary by worksite state (FY2020). Deeper pink = a higher median; hover any state for its figures.
Share of each big sponsor's filings at wage levels I–IV. Higher levels get more lottery entries, so the right-hand columns are where the better odds live — and where IT-services filers and Big Tech part ways.
Top sponsors, payers, occupations, industries, law firms and states for FY2020. Switch boards with the pills.
Employers with the most certified LCA filings.
| # | Name | Filings | Median base |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cognizant Technology Solutions US | 28,549 | $87k |
| 2 | Tata Consultancy Services | 11,929 | $73k |
| 3 | Amazon.com Services | 11,603 | $141k |
| 4 | 9,534 | $145k | |
| 5 | Infosys | 9,456 | $83k |
| 6 | Ernst Young U.S. LLP | 8,845 | $115k |
| 7 | Deloitte Consulting LLP | 8,003 | $110k |
| 8 | Microsoft | 7,852 | $142k |
| 9 | Accenture LLP | 6,089 | $94k |
| 10 | Capgemini America | 5,826 | $90k |
Every sponsor, job title, worksite city and cap-exempt employer in the certified disclosure record, ranked by filings. Open any list to search and page through the full index.
225,282 employers
| # | Employer | Filings |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cognizant Technology Solutions US | 133,584 |
| 2 | Infosys | 125,335 |
| 3 | Tata Consultancy Services | 114,422 |
| 4 | Amazon.com Services | 101,432 |
| 5 | Ernst Young U.S. LLP | 84,478 |
| 6 | 82,354 | |
| 7 | Microsoft | 77,758 |
| 8 | Deloitte Consulting LLP | 66,962 |
| 9 | Capgemini America | 62,565 |
| 10 | Accenture LLP | 51,350 |
631,419 job titles
| # | Job title | Filings |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Software Engineer | 301,963 |
| 2 | Software Developer | 232,427 |
| 3 | Programmer Analyst | 108,609 |
| 4 | Senior Software Engineer | 75,253 |
| 5 | Manager | 70,159 |
| 6 | Senior Systems Analyst | 44,691 |
| 7 | Assistant Professor | 42,955 |
| 8 | Systems Analyst | 38,073 |
| 9 | Architect | 35,979 |
| 10 | Business Analyst | 35,168 |
27,135 cities
| # | City | Filings |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York, NY | 308,605 |
| 2 | San Francisco, CA | 132,837 |
| 3 | Seattle, WA | 120,821 |
| 4 | San Jose, CA | 105,298 |
| 5 | Chicago, IL | 104,633 |
| 6 | Austin, TX | 102,138 |
| 7 | Sunnyvale, CA | 97,486 |
| 8 | Atlanta, GA | 96,850 |
| 9 | Houston, TX | 94,305 |
| 10 | Irving, TX | 81,678 |
3,022 employers
| # | Employer | Filings |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mayo Clinic | 4,735 |
| 2 | University of Michigan | 3,723 |
| 3 | Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | 2,539 |
| 4 | University of Pittsburgh | 2,505 |
| 5 | University of California San Francisco | 2,485 |
| 6 | The Leland Stanford JR University | 2,404 |
| 7 | University of Florida | 2,266 |
| 8 | Columbia University | 2,238 |
| 9 | The University of Iowa | 2,214 |
| 10 | University of Minnesota | 2,078 |
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Source: U.S. DOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification — certified LCA disclosures. Medians are base salary; pay figures exclude bonus and equity.