H1B Report
Salary comparison

Compliance Officers 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
Compliance Officers
SOC 13-1041Rank #64

Key metrics

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

MetricCompliance OfficersSoftware Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers
Median wage$76,000$81,600
P25 wage$60,549$68,715
P75 wage$97,780$100,005
Wage spread (P75 − P25)$37,231$31,290
Total filings13,933375,227
Wage samples13,863374,517
Rank#64#4

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
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 — 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 — 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 — Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers

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