Worksite city · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ wage area
H-1B salaries in New York, NY
28% of new-employment offers here reach Level IV; 25% get a single lottery entry.
31,428certified H-1B LCAs with a worksite here, Jul 2025 to Jun 2026
$157,500median offer
28%of new-employment offers reach Level IV
12,131new-employment LCAs
Source U.S. Dept. of Labor, OFLC disclosure files Covers decisions Jul 2025 to Jun 2026 Release FY2026 Q3, published Aug 7, 2026 Wage levels OFLC 2026-27
Wage levels for the top jobs here
same scale for every row · black mark: median offerunder Level ILevel IIIIIIIV and upmedian offerscale $58k to $297k
Lottery entries
12,131 new-employment LCAs1 entry · Level I2 · Level II3 · Level III4 · Level IVunder Level I, still 1 entry
How this is calculated
New-employment H-1B LCAs only, the filings behind most cap petitions; extensions, transfers and amendments do not go through the lottery, and cap-exempt universities and nonprofit research organizations are left out. Each offered salary (low end of the range) is compared with the OFLC Level I to IV wages for its occupation and worksite area, wage year 2026-27; a filing with several worksites counts at its lowest level, as the rule requires. Numbers on the right are LCAs. Full methodology.
Jobs and employers
Jul 2025 to Jun 2026Top jobs
| Job | Certified LCAs | Median salary |
|---|---|---|
| Software Developers | 6,576 | $175,000 |
| Financial and Investment Analysts | 3,625 | $175,000 |
| Data Scientists | 2,858 | $149,465 |
| Financial Specialists, All Other | 1,694 | $175,000 |
| Computer Occupations, All Other | 1,222 | $150,000 |
| Lawyers | 1,197 | $230,500 |
| Management Analysts | 898 | $158,552 |
| Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists | 875 | $104,000 |
| Accountants and Auditors | 867 | $122,000 |
| Operations Research Analysts | 865 | $142,545 |
| Computer and Information Systems Managers | 660 | $228,000 |
| Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists | 612 | $81,689 |
| Computer and Information Research Scientists | 556 | $200,000 |
| Financial Risk Specialists | 491 | $157,581 |
| Project Management Specialists | 337 | $140,000 |
Top employers
| Employer | Certified LCAs | Median salary |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon.com Services LLC | 965 | $170,200 |
| Ernst & Young U.S. LLP | 913 | $152,580 |
| Meta Platforms, Inc | 839 | $212,202 |
| Google LLC | 821 | $199,498 |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 720 | $175,000 |
| Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC | 446 | $171,500 |
| Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. | 429 | $170,000 |
| Bloomberg L.P. | 358 | $160,805 |
| Columbia University | 326 | $81,689 |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | 264 | $91,843 |
| Amazon Web Services, Inc. | 243 | $178,484 |
| Morgan Stanley & Co., LLC | 242 | $200,000 |
| BlackRock Financial Management, Inc. | 232 | $158,300 |
| Bofa Securities, INC. | 230 | $175,000 |
| MPG Operations LLC | 200 | $121,139 |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | 199 | $85,000 |
| Citibank, N.A. | 192 | $189,592 |
| NYU Grossman School of Medicine | 181 | $84,900 |
| Weill Cornell Medical College | 177 | $82,732 |
| Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. | 176 | $176,900 |
| All other employers | 23,275 | – |