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Salary comparison

Commercial and Industrial Designers 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
Commercial and Industrial Designers
SOC 27-1021Rank #51
Occupation B
Computer Programmers
SOC 15-1251Rank #6

Key metrics

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

MetricCommercial and Industrial DesignersComputer Programmers
Median wage$73,500$68,640
P25 wage$54,300$61,000
P75 wage$110,000$80,000
Wage spread (P75 − P25)$55,700$19,000
Total filings18,455307,209
Wage samples18,235305,925
Rank#51#6

Median wage by year

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

Commercial and Industrial Designers
Time series: 17 points from FY2010 to FY2026
Time series
PeriodValue
FY2010$50k
FY2011$48k
FY2012$50k
FY2013$52k
FY2014$56k
FY2015$60k
FY2016$65k
FY2017$70k
FY2018$77k
FY2019$82k
FY2020$93k
FY2021$107k
FY2022$106k
FY2023$110k
FY2024$101k
FY2025$110k
FY2026$135k
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 — Commercial and Industrial Designers

  • 1CA5,587$100,922
  • 2NY3,298$70,000
  • 3WA957$143,052
  • 4TX895$62,000
  • 5IL667$60,000

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
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