H1B Report
Salary comparison

Financial Risk Specialists 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 Risk Specialists
SOC 13-2054Rank #67

Key metrics

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

MetricFinancial Risk SpecialistsSoftware Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers
Median wage$100,000$81,600
P25 wage$76,500$68,715
P75 wage$130,489$100,005
Wage spread (P75 − P25)$53,989$31,290
Total filings12,611375,227
Wage samples12,576374,517
Rank#67#4

Median wage by year

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

Financial Risk Specialists
Time series: 17 points from FY2010 to FY2026
Time series
PeriodValue
FY2010$80k
FY2011$80k
FY2012$80k
FY2013$71k
FY2014$78k
FY2015$80k
FY2016$80k
FY2017$85k
FY2018$81k
FY2019$92k
FY2020$100k
FY2021$102k
FY2022$115k
FY2023$125k
FY2024$120k
FY2025$127k
FY2026$135k
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 — Financial Risk Specialists

  • 1NY3,489$112,715
  • 2CA1,358$95,000
  • 3TX946$90,000
  • 4NJ877$117,458
  • 5IL717$85,876

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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