H1B Report
Salary comparison

Business Operations Specialists, All Other vs Computer Programmers

Side-by-side H-1B prevailing-wage comparison using the same DOL LCA data that drives every page on H1B Report. Quartiles, hiring geography, top sponsors and yearly wage drift.

Occupation A
Business Operations Specialists, All Other
SOC 13-1199Rank #97
Occupation B
Computer Programmers
SOC 15-1251Rank #6

Key metrics

Wage figures are offered annual wage; volume is total LCA count.

MetricBusiness Operations Specialists, All OtherComputer Programmers
Median wage$63,710$68,640
P25 wage$49,000$61,000
P75 wage$88,400$80,000
Wage spread (P75 − P25)$39,400$19,000
Total filings5,980307,209
Wage samples5,801305,925
Rank#97#6

Median wage by year

Year-over-year drift of the typical offered wage.

Business Operations Specialists, All Other
Time series: 17 points from FY2010 to FY2026
Time series
PeriodValue
FY2010$47k
FY2011$48k
FY2012$50k
FY2013$52k
FY2014$52k
FY2015$57k
FY2016$60k
FY2017$57k
FY2018$70k
FY2019$70k
FY2020$77k
FY2021$88k
FY2022$93k
FY2023$88k
FY2024$80k
FY2025$83k
FY2026$95k
Computer Programmers
Time series: 17 points from FY2010 to FY2026
Time series
PeriodValue
FY2010$60k
FY2011$62k
FY2012$62k
FY2013$63k
FY2014$65k
FY2015$67k
FY2016$68k
FY2017$69k
FY2018$74k
FY2019$77k
FY2020$78k
FY2021$85k
FY2022$87k
FY2023$86k
FY2024$94k
FY2025$94k
FY2026$99k

Top 5 hiring states — Business Operations Specialists, All Other

  • 1CA1,237$69,202
  • 2NY1,035$62,566
  • 3TX598$72,571
  • 4NJ343$55,120
  • 5FL314$52,000

Top 5 hiring states — Computer Programmers

  • 1CA37,498$75,000
  • 2TX37,159$69,200
  • 3NJ28,375$70,000
  • 4IL21,419$66,082
  • 5NY15,839$70,500

Top 5 sponsors — Business Operations Specialists, All Other

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