H1B Report
Salary comparison

Financial and Investment Analysts 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
Financial and Investment Analysts
SOC 13-2051Rank #11

Key metrics

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

MetricFinancial and Investment AnalystsSoftware Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers
Median wage$100,000$96,000
P25 wage$80,000$80,433
P75 wage$135,000$116,043
Wage spread (P75 − P25)$55,000$35,610
Total filings54,243134,517
Wage samples54,160134,348
Rank#11#4

Median wage by year

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

Financial and Investment Analysts
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers

Top 5 hiring states — Financial and Investment Analysts

  • 1NY17,119$115,000
  • 2CA8,775$111,384
  • 3TX4,950$86,861
  • 4IL2,902$92,936
  • 5MA2,309$99,999

Top 5 hiring states — Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers

  • 1CA24,239$121,000
  • 2TX20,135$93,558
  • 3NJ7,654$97,053
  • 4NC6,536$93,416
  • 5GA6,364$90,604

Top 5 sponsors — Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers

Swap an entity
Replace either occupation above without losing the comparison. 2-way for now; 3+ comparison coming soon.