H-1B and green card employer
Educational Testing Service
Princeton, NJ NAICS 541720 Cap-exempt
Educational Testing Service is cap-exempt: its new H-1B hires skip the lottery.
60certified H-1B LCAs, Jul 2025 to Jun 2026
$138,570median offer · middle half $129k to $153k
51%24 vs. 49 LCAs, Oct 2025 to Jun 2026 vs. a year earlier
24certified green card (PERM) cases, FY2026 to Jun 2026
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
Lottery entries at Educational Testing Service's offers
Educational Testing Service files mostly as a college or university or as a nonprofit research organization. Those employers are exempt from the H-1B cap, so their hires do not go through the lottery and no entry mix is shown.
What Educational Testing Service offers
60 certified LCAs, Jul 2025 to Jun 2026$50k$100k$150k$200k$250k$300k
Level IIIIIIIVunder Level I = 1 LCA = 1 LCA
$10,000 bands, coloured by the level each salary reaches for its own job and area.
By fiscal year
October to September · hatched: FY2026 to Jun 2026Certified H-1B LCAs
24 FY2026 to Jun 2026
Median offer
$153,005 FY2026
Certified green card cases
24 FY2026 to Jun 2026
Jobs and worksites
Jul 2025 to Jun 2026Top jobs
| Job | Certified LCAs | Median salary |
|---|---|---|
| Software Developers | 36 | $143,463 |
| Computer Occupations, All Other | 9 | $153,046 |
| Data Scientists | 7 | $131,622 |
| Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers | 4 | $119,631 |
Top worksite cities
| City | Certified LCAs | Median salary |
|---|---|---|
| Princeton, NJ | 36 | $152,131 |
| Little Elm, TX | 4 | $139,328 |
| Rochester, NY | 3 | $95,000 |
Green card (PERM) labor certifications
by fiscal year of decision| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Median offer |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 10 | 0 | $87,837 |
| FY2024 | 2 | 0 | – |
| FY2025 | 9 | 0 | $106,000 |
| FY2026 to Jun 2026 | 24 | 0 | $107,162 |
Review takes about a year, so a pause in filing shows up a year later. Medians only for years with 3 or more certifications.
Recent certified LCAs
latest 25 · salary is the low end of the offered range| Job title | Salary | Entries |
|---|---|---|
| Business Systems Analyst Lead | $159,136 | |
| Associate Research Engineer | $95,000 | |
| Associate Psychometrician | $106,936 | |
| Software Developer - Lead | $156,962 | |
| Systems Engineer Senior | $136,926 | |
| Software Developer Senior | $126,000 | |
| Director of AI Engineering | $205,000 | |
| Director of AI Engineering | $205,000 | |
| IT Data Scientist | $131,622 | |
| Software Developer - Lead | $153,358 | |
| Associate Research Engineer | $95,000 | |
| Associate Research Engineer | $95,000 | |
| Software Developer, Research – Lead | $160,000 | |
| Software Developer - Lead | $162,743 | |
| Technical Project Consultant | $158,974 | |
| Software Developer, Research Lead | $150,000 | |
| AI Engineer | $142,595 | |
| Software Developer - Lead | $171,597 | |
| Software Developer - Lead | $165,794 | |
| Assistant AI Engineer | $111,444 | |
| Software Developer - Lead | $153,005 | |
| Business Systems Analyst Lead | $154,627 | |
| Software Developer Lead | $153,005 | |
| Software Developer (Full Stack) Senior | $130,603 | |
| Software Developer Senior | $127,837 |