What does a role pay? H-1B/PERM salary benchmarks

They use the same public DOL disclosure data but answer different questions. visa-sponsor-finder helps you discover WHICH companies sponsor H-1B/PERM and how often they file — it is for job seekers and recruiters mapping sponsoring employers. This salary-benchmark tool answers HOW MUCH a given role pays: percentile salary ranges by role, city, state, or employer, and the individual disclosed wage records behind them. If you want sponsor discovery, start with visa-sponsor-finder; if you want pay data, use this one.

From the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) public disclosure files. When an employer sponsors a foreign worker, it must file a Labor Condition Application (LCA) for H-1B/H-1B1/E-3 roles or a PERM application for green-card roles, and report the offered/required wage. The DOL publishes these filings as public disclosure datasets, typically released quarterly (about a month after each fiscal-year quarter ends).

Not exactly. The disclosed figure is the offered or required wage on the filing — what the employer stated it would pay for the position — not a confirmed final paycheck. It is base salary and does not include bonus, stock, or other compensation. Employers must pay at least the higher of the prevailing wage or their actual wage for similar workers, so it is a strong, legally-grounded salary signal, but treat it as the base offered wage rather than total compensation.

Just visa-sponsored roles. The dataset only contains positions where an employer filed an H-1B, H-1B1, E-3, or PERM application. That is a meaningful subset — heavily weighted toward tech, engineering, finance, healthcare, and academia — but it is not a census of all U.S. employment. Use it as a strong real-salary benchmark for sponsored roles, not as a universal national wage figure.

salary-benchmark mode aggregates the matching filings (certified/approved filings by default) into a percentile distribution — P10, P25, median, P75, P90 — plus the filing count, top employer, and visa-type breakdown for the role and location you specified. salary-samples mode skips the aggregation and returns the individual disclosed records: case number, visa type, decision, employer, job title, SOC code, offered wage, prevailing wage, and worksite. Pick benchmark for a quick range; pick samples when you want to inspect the underlying rows.

Role is the only field you must type — mode is preset to salary-samples (for example, 'Software Engineer' or 'Data Scientist'). Optional filters let you narrow further: employer, city, state, visaTypes (defaults to H-1B; you can add H-1B1, E-3, or PERM), fiscalYears, minSalary and maxSalary to bound the wage range, and maxItems to cap how many rows are returned. The more filters you add, the tighter and more comparable the benchmark.

Because the same role pays very differently across metro areas, and the DOL data captures that. The prevailing wage is defined for a specific occupation in a specific area of intended employment, so a Software Engineer benchmark in San Francisco will not match one in Dallas or Atlanta. Filtering by city or state gives you a location-adjusted percentile range instead of a blended national figure that masks cost-of-living differences.

The DOL releases public disclosure files quarterly, usually about a month after each fiscal-year quarter closes, and each release is cumulative for that fiscal year. You can target specific fiscal years with the fiscalYears input. Because a small share of cases can change on appeal or redetermination, the most recent quarter is the freshest but also the most subject to minor later revision.

No. This page is a query builder. It assembles a ready-to-run configuration from your inputs and shows a fixed example of the output shape so you know what to expect. To get actual results you run the SalaryBench IQ actor on Apify with that config. The actor is free to start and then pay-as-you-go on your Apify platform credits.

Yes. Leave employer blank and use salary-benchmark mode to see the percentile range plus the top filing employer for a role and location, or run salary-samples to list disclosed wages per employer side by side. You can also re-run the query with a specific employer filter to see that company's filed wages versus the broader market range for the same role and city.