H1B Report
Salary comparison

Judicial Law Clerks 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
Judicial Law Clerks
SOC 23-1012Rank #80

Key metrics

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

MetricJudicial Law ClerksSoftware Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers
Median wage$65,510$81,600
P25 wage$47,653$68,715
P75 wage$160,000$100,005
Wage spread (P75 − P25)$112,347$31,290
Total filings8,508375,227
Wage samples8,262374,517
Rank#80#4

Median wage by year

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

Judicial Law Clerks
Time series: 17 points from FY2010 to FY2026
Time series
PeriodValue
FY2010$40k
FY2011$40k
FY2012$42k
FY2013$43k
FY2014$52k
FY2015$53k
FY2016$56k
FY2017$64k
FY2018$60k
FY2019$70k
FY2020$73k
FY2021$85k
FY2022$180k
FY2023$86k
FY2024$74k
FY2025$80k
FY2026$75k
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 — Judicial Law Clerks

  • 1NY3,526$96,131
  • 2CA1,519$65,000
  • 3DC311$155,000
  • 4FL297$52,957
  • 5NJ277$53,000

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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