H1B Report
Salary comparison

Business Operations Specialists, All Other vs Software Developers

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
Software Developers
SOC 15-1252Rank #1

Key metrics

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

MetricBusiness Operations Specialists, All OtherSoftware Developers
Median wage$65,000$102,690
P25 wage$49,982$84,300
P75 wage$90,000$131,000
Wage spread (P75 − P25)$40,018$46,700
Total filings6,3352,843,747
Wage samples6,1562,838,792
Rank#94#1

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
Software Developers
Time series: 17 points from FY2010 to FY2026
Time series
PeriodValue
FY2010$80k
FY2011$80k
FY2012$81k
FY2013$82k
FY2014$82k
FY2015$82k
FY2016$84k
FY2017$90k
FY2018$93k
FY2019$96k
FY2020$103k
FY2021$112k
FY2022$115k
FY2023$120k
FY2024$124k
FY2025$133k
FY2026$140k

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 — Software Developers

  • 1CA589,072$130,894
  • 2TX340,929$99,861
  • 3WA183,730$136,800
  • 4NJ155,389$100,000
  • 5NY131,510$112,700

Top 5 sponsors — Business Operations Specialists, All Other

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