H-1B and green card employer
WGU Corporation
Salt Lake City, UT NAICS 611310 Cap-exempt
WGU is cap-exempt: its new H-1B hires skip the lottery.
68certified H-1B LCAs, Jul 2025 to Jun 2026
$150,000median offer · middle half $119k to $183k
68%47 vs. 28 LCAs, Oct 2025 to Jun 2026 vs. a year earlier
6certified 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 WGU's offers
WGU Corporation 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 WGU offers
68 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
47 FY2026 to Jun 2026
Median offer
$151,500 FY2026
Certified green card cases
6 FY2026 to Jun 2026
Jobs and worksites
Jul 2025 to Jun 2026Top jobs
| Job | Certified LCAs | Median salary |
|---|---|---|
| Software Developers | 32 | $177,500 |
| Data Scientists | 15 | $112,500 |
| Database Administrators | 8 | $150,000 |
| Computer and Information Systems Managers | 3 | $198,900 |
Top worksite cities
| City | Certified LCAs | Median salary |
|---|---|---|
| Salt Lake City, UT | 47 | $150,000 |
| Phoenix, AZ | 4 | $131,000 |
| Raleigh, NC | 3 | $171,000 |
| San Diego, CA | 3 | $96,800 |
Green card (PERM) labor certifications
by fiscal year of decision| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Median offer |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 0 | 0 | – |
| FY2024 | 10 | 0 | $121,500 |
| FY2025 | 5 | 0 | $137,800 |
| FY2026 to Jun 2026 | 6 | 0 | $133,900 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer | $196,300 | |
| Principal Cloud Architect | $208,000 | |
| Principal Cloud Architect | $208,000 | |
| Senior Financial Quantitative Manager | $170,800 | |
| Senior Manager, Software Engineer | $225,000 | |
| Institutional Analytics and Research Senior Data Analyst | $110,500 | |
| Distinguished Engineer | $270,000 | |
| Senior Data Analyst - College Analytics | $112,500 | |
| Senior Data Analyst | $96,800 | |
| Senior Salesforce Administrator | $135,000 | |
| Salesforce Administrator II | $108,000 | |
| Lead Data Analyst- Curriculum Analytics | $135,000 | |
| Lead Data Analyst- Curriculum Analytics | $135,000 | |
| Staff Software Engineer | $210,000 | |
| Technical Project Manager III | $128,860 | |
| Senior Data Scientist | $96,800 | |
| Systems Administrator | $115,000 | |
| Senior Database Administrator | $145,000 | |
| Software Engineer | $144,500 | |
| Advancement Application Developer | $139,200 | |
| Institutional Analytics and Research Data Analyst | $110,500 | |
| Software Engineer II | $122,800 | |
| Software Engineer | $115,000 | |
| Staff Cloud Engineer | $187,000 | |
| Senior Software Engineer | $158,900 |