H1B Report
Salary comparison

Business Operations Specialists, All Other vs Data Scientists

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
Data Scientists
SOC 15-2051Rank #5

Key metrics

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

MetricBusiness Operations Specialists, All OtherData Scientists
Median wage$63,710$102,700
P25 wage$49,000$80,000
P75 wage$88,400$135,000
Wage spread (P75 − P25)$39,400$55,000
Total filings5,980340,799
Wage samples5,801340,106
Rank#97#5

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
Data Scientists
Time series: 17 points from FY2010 to FY2026
Time series
PeriodValue
FY2010$70k
FY2011$71k
FY2012$71k
FY2013$74k
FY2014$75k
FY2015$76k
FY2016$78k
FY2017$85k
FY2018$91k
FY2019$95k
FY2020$102k
FY2021$111k
FY2022$115k
FY2023$119k
FY2024$118k
FY2025$121k
FY2026$130k

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 — Data Scientists

  • 1CA68,055$127,000
  • 2NY36,985$120,000
  • 3TX34,597$97,739
  • 4WA24,843$129,709
  • 5NJ17,688$95,000

Top 5 sponsors — Business Operations Specialists, All Other

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