H1B Report
Salary comparison

Financial Specialists, All Other vs Software Developers

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
Software Developers
SOC 15-1252Rank #1

Key metrics

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

MetricFinancial Specialists, All OtherSoftware Developers
Median wage$110,000$102,000
P25 wage$80,246$84,000
P75 wage$150,000$130,000
Wage spread (P75 − P25)$69,754$46,000
Total filings34,8952,765,226
Wage samples34,7482,760,334
Rank#33#1

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
Software Developers
Time series: 17 points from FY2010 to FY2026
Time series
PeriodValue
FY2010$80k
FY2011$80k
FY2012$81k
FY2013$82k
FY2014$82k
FY2015$82k
FY2016$84k
FY2017$90k
FY2018$93k
FY2019$96k
FY2020$103k
FY2021$112k
FY2022$115k
FY2023$120k
FY2024$124k
FY2025$133k
FY2026$143k

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 — Software Developers

  • 1CA571,349$130,000
  • 2TX328,305$98,910
  • 3WA175,348$135,000
  • 4NJ152,178$100,000
  • 5NY127,190$110,460
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