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Pricewaterhousecoopers Advisory Services

Offered base salaries from 701 certified H-1B filings, across 13 roles in 31 metro areas.

DOL LCA disclosures · FY 2025 Certified, full-time filings only
Table 1 — The median offer

Half of Pricewaterhousecoopers Advisory Services's certified filings offered $183,000 or more.

The middle half of offers fell between $152,000 and $204,000. Offered base salary excludes equity and bonus — read every figure on this page as a floor on total pay, not an average.

Table 2 — Roles

What they hire for

Offered base salary by occupation, nationwide, ordered by filing volume.

RoleMedian offerRangeFilings
Computer and Information Systems Managers$194,000$149k – $382k243
Operations Research Analysts$185,000$75k – $301k133
Software Developers$174,000$105k – $273k125
Information Security Analysts$157,000$85k – $300k70
Data Scientists$164,000$71k – $254k46
Financial and Investment Analysts$180,000$117k – $209k19
Financial Risk Specialists$156,000$99k – $199k16
Computer Occupations, All Other$138,000$80k – $223k13
Financial Specialists, All Other$166,000$105k – $220k8
Database Architects$150,000$93k – $208k8
Table 3 — Metro areas

Where they hire

The same filings by worksite metro area.

Metro areaMedian offerRangeFilings
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ$190,000$75k – $339k145
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX$180,000$85k – $292k88
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN$189,000$74k – $382k76
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA$180,000$105k – $310k51
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA$201,000$99k – $301k32
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX$177,000$95k – $260k31
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA$180,000$85k – $311k26
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$198,000$142k – $300k25
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$154,000$83k – $260k25
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$190,000$89k – $273k24
Table 4 — Against the market

Offers beside the local going rate

Each row compares Pricewaterhousecoopers Advisory Services's median offer with the median for everyone in that occupation and metro, from federal wage statistics.

Role — MetroMedian offerFilingsvs. market
Operations Research Analysts — New York$182,00040+76.5%
Computer and Information Systems Managers — Dallas$187,00037+7.6%
Computer and Information Systems Managers — New York$220,00033+2.2%
Computer and Information Systems Managers — Chicago$190,00030+9.3%
Computer and Information Systems Managers — Atlanta$184,00028+3.4%
Software Developers — Dallas$172,00023+29.0%
Software Developers — New York$179,00019+7.3%
Operations Research Analysts — Chicago$190,00018+119.7%
Data Scientists — New York$178,00016+30.9%
Computer and Information Systems Managers — Houston$187,00013+8.6%
Sources

How this page was made

Employer pay
US Department of Labor, Labor Condition Application disclosures, FY 2025. Public records.
Coverage
701 certified full-time H-1B filings. Groups under 3 filings are excluded throughout.
Market comparison
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics.

Filings state the offered base salary at time of application; equity and bonus are not recorded, and visa-sponsored hiring skews toward larger employers and technical roles — this page describes Pricewaterhousecoopers Advisory Services's visa filings, not its whole workforce. Employer names are normalised from filing entities, so figures cover the filing entity named above. We take no payment from employers for how any figure is presented, and corrections are welcome at press@salaryalmanac.com.