H1B Report
Salary comparison

Business Operations Specialists, All Other vs Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers

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

Key metrics

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

MetricBusiness Operations Specialists, All OtherSoftware Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers
Median wage$65,000$81,600
P25 wage$49,982$68,715
P75 wage$90,000$100,005
Wage spread (P75 − P25)$40,018$31,290
Total filings6,335375,227
Wage samples6,156374,517
Rank#94#4

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 Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers
Time series: 17 points from FY2010 to FY2026
Time series
PeriodValue
FY2010$75k
FY2011$70k
FY2012$68k
FY2013$68k
FY2014$69k
FY2015$70k
FY2016$71k
FY2017$74k
FY2018$82k
FY2019$85k
FY2020$88k
FY2021$94k
FY2022$97k
FY2023$98k
FY2024$100k
FY2025$103k
FY2026$107k

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 Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers

  • 1CA70,691$96,325
  • 2TX39,545$83,303
  • 3NJ23,688$72,630
  • 4WA20,111$88,000
  • 5IL18,114$74,880

Top 5 sponsors — Business Operations Specialists, All Other

Top 5 sponsors — Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers

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