2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

Social Finance

Offered base salaries from 174 certified H-1B filings, across 9 roles in 9 metro areas.

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

Half of Social Finance's certified filings offered $195,000 or more.

The middle half of offers fell between $165,000 and $215,000. 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
Software Developers$198,563$120k – $270k96
Data Scientists$195,000$104k – $245k24
Computer and Information Systems Managers$279,450$213k – $292k11
Computer Occupations, All Other$204,000$143k – $240k10
Database Architects$191,889$140k – $223k8
Operations Research Analysts$185,000$116k – $243k8
Financial Risk Specialists$173,250$141k – $222k4
Financial and Investment Analysts$189,000$115k – $205k3
Financial Specialists, All Other$211,000$135k – $211k3
Table 3 — Metro areas

Where they hire

The same filings by worksite metro area.

Metro areaMedian offerRangeFilings
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$203,919$145k – $292k63
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$200,000$115k – $280k58
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ$180,000$135k – $245k17
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX$189,000$138k – $220k8
Salt Lake City-Murray, UT$155,623$120k – $217k8
Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX$211,000$170k – $240k4
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN$161,680$140k – $215k3
Helena, MT$142,215$132k – $176k3
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD$150,000$143k – $200k3
Table 4 — Against the market

Offers beside the local going rate

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

Role — MetroMedian offerFilingsvs. market
Software Developers — Seattle$200,00050+19.6%
Software Developers — San Francisco$209,68728+12.3%
Computer and Information Systems Managers — Seattle$279,4508+30.2%
Software Developers — Salt Lake City$155,6238+20.1%
Data Scientists — San Francisco$210,0007+23.4%
Software Developers — New York$170,5605+2.2%
Operations Research Analysts — San Francisco$180,0005+62.8%
Data Scientists — New York$200,0005+47.1%
Sources

How this page was made

Employer pay
US Department of Labor, Labor Condition Application disclosures, FY 2025. Public records.
Coverage
174 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 Social Finance'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.