Most immigration sites quote each other. We download the raw government disclosure files, parse them, and publish what is actually in them — with the method shown so you can check or repeat it.
From the Department of Labor's quarterly LCA disclosure file. Employer name, worksite city and state for every certified H-1B labor condition application this quarter — which is how you check whether a company actually sponsors, rather than taking a recruiter's word for it.
Salary sites report what people say they earn. These are the wages employers committed to on a federal filing. We normalise hourly, weekly, bi-weekly and monthly rates to an annual figure and publish the median, 25th, 75th and 90th percentiles for every occupation with enough filings to be stable.
Nobody else publishes this. Every H-1B filing states both the prevailing wage — the legal minimum for that occupation and metro — and the wage actually offered. We compared the two across every occupation.
From the Department of Education's College Scorecard Field of Study file: median earnings one year after completion and median graduate debt, for a specific programme at a specific university.
The H-1B data is the Office of Foreign Labor Certification's quarterly LCA disclosure file, published by the Department of Labor. The education data is the College Scorecard Field of Study file from the Department of Education. Both are public downloads, not APIs behind a key.
DOL disclosure dataA certified filing is not an approved visa, and not a hire. The wage is base pay, so it excludes equity and bonus — at large tech employers that is often the larger half. The file has no seniority field, so a new graduate and a principal engineer sit in the same row. And every figure is one quarter; the files are republished and the numbers move.
We say all of this inside each guide too. Knowing the edge of the evidence is part of using it.
