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 #94
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$65,000$103,480
P25 wage$49,982$80,142
P75 wage$90,000$135,000
Wage spread (P75 − P25)$40,018$54,858
Total filings6,335357,932
Wage samples6,156357,234
Rank#94#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$53k
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$85k
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$122k

Top 5 hiring states — Business Operations Specialists, All Other

  • 1CA1,308$70,000
  • 2NY1,082$64,000
  • 3TX633$74,880
  • 4NJ385$56,210
  • 5FL342$52,000

Top 5 hiring states — Data Scientists

  • 1CA70,879$128,000
  • 2NY38,475$120,000
  • 3TX37,207$97,800
  • 4WA26,143$130,000
  • 5NJ18,597$95,680

Top 5 sponsors — Business Operations Specialists, All Other

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