H1B Report
Salary comparison

Compliance Officers 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
Compliance Officers
SOC 13-1041Rank #64
Occupation B
Computer Programmers
SOC 15-1251Rank #6

Key metrics

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

MetricCompliance OfficersComputer Programmers
Median wage$76,000$68,848
P25 wage$60,549$61,000
P75 wage$97,780$80,184
Wage spread (P75 − P25)$37,231$19,184
Total filings13,933313,856
Wage samples13,863312,556
Rank#64#6

Median wage by year

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

Compliance Officers
Time series: 17 points from FY2010 to FY2026
Time series
PeriodValue
FY2010$62k
FY2011$60k
FY2012$58k
FY2013$60k
FY2014$62k
FY2015$60k
FY2016$65k
FY2017$67k
FY2018$73k
FY2019$75k
FY2020$80k
FY2021$85k
FY2022$88k
FY2023$90k
FY2024$86k
FY2025$92k
FY2026$90k
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$98k

Top 5 hiring states — Compliance Officers

  • 1CA2,467$90,000
  • 2NJ1,990$73,861
  • 3NY1,931$73,861
  • 4MA1,300$84,718
  • 5TX692$74,880

Top 5 hiring states — Computer Programmers

  • 1TX38,662$69,200
  • 2CA38,151$75,000
  • 3NJ29,022$70,251
  • 4IL21,834$66,100
  • 5NY16,102$70,735

Top 5 sponsors — Computer Programmers

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