H1B Report
Salary comparison

Financial Specialists, All Other vs Data Scientists

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 Specialists, All Other
SOC 13-2099Rank #33
Occupation B
Data Scientists
SOC 15-2051Rank #5

Key metrics

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

MetricFinancial Specialists, All OtherData Scientists
Median wage$110,000$102,700
P25 wage$80,246$80,000
P75 wage$150,000$135,000
Wage spread (P75 − P25)$69,754$55,000
Total filings34,895340,799
Wage samples34,748340,106
Rank#33#5

Median wage by year

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

Financial Specialists, All Other
Time series: 17 points from FY2010 to FY2026
Time series
PeriodValue
FY2010$86k
FY2011$85k
FY2012$86k
FY2013$90k
FY2014$87k
FY2015$89k
FY2016$93k
FY2017$95k
FY2018$96k
FY2019$103k
FY2020$110k
FY2021$120k
FY2022$130k
FY2023$130k
FY2024$136k
FY2025$141k
FY2026$152k
Data Scientists
Time series: 17 points from FY2010 to FY2026
Time series
PeriodValue
FY2010$70k
FY2011$71k
FY2012$71k
FY2013$74k
FY2014$75k
FY2015$76k
FY2016$78k
FY2017$85k
FY2018$91k
FY2019$95k
FY2020$102k
FY2021$111k
FY2022$115k
FY2023$119k
FY2024$118k
FY2025$121k
FY2026$130k

Top 5 hiring states — Financial Specialists, All Other

  • 1NY12,010$132,371
  • 2CA4,346$110,469
  • 3IL3,078$110,000
  • 4TX1,815$95,264
  • 5MA1,642$93,009

Top 5 hiring states — Data Scientists

  • 1CA68,055$127,000
  • 2NY36,985$120,000
  • 3TX34,597$97,739
  • 4WA24,843$129,709
  • 5NJ17,688$95,000
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