Financial and investment analysts evaluate investments and guide business and individual financial decisions. Based on 23,163 certified H-1B and PERM filings from U.S. Department of Labor disclosure data, the median sponsored salary for a Financial Analyst is $119,621 per year.
| Percentile | Annual salary |
|---|---|
| 10th (entry) | $70,000 |
| 25th | $88,000 |
| 50th (median) | $119,621 |
| 75th | $155,000 |
| 90th (senior) | $200,000 |
Every other salary site shows the LCA-posted wage — the wage for the position. Using USCIS I-129 petition data, we can compare that against the actual pay the sponsored worker received, and the prevailing-wage floor, across 5,949 matched Financial Analysts petitions.
The median worker is paid essentially at the posted LCA wage, but the mean actual pay runs 17.8% above the mean posted wage — so the upside is concentrated in the top earners. 21.1% are paid above their posted wage, 74.7% at it, and 4.2% below.
Actual-pay data covers FY2021–FY2024 cap-subject H-1B lottery petitions matched to certified LCAs (aggregates only). Base wage excludes equity and bonuses, so it is not total compensation. Source: I-129 petition data sourced from USCIS, obtained by Bloomberg.
Of 23,163 filings, 5,133 are H-1B (temporary work visa) and 18,030 are PERM (green-card labor certification, 78% of the total).
| # | Employer | Filings | Avg. salary |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. | 703 | $147,700 |
| 2 | JP Morgan Chase & Co. | 370 | $149,712 |
| 3 | ERNST & YOUNG LLP | 356 | $154,616 |
| 4 | MORGAN STANLEY & CO. INC. | 345 | $174,957 |
| 5 | Microsoft Corporation | 246 | $114,917 |
| 6 | Macquarie Holdings (USA) Inc. | 238 | $186,809 |
| 7 | JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 229 | $174,328 |
| 8 | CREDIT SUISSE SECURITIES (USA) LLC | 228 | $162,329 |
| 9 | AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC. | 224 | $84,557 |
| 10 | CITIBANK, N.A. | 207 | $162,539 |
| 11 | BLACKROCK FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, INC. | 200 | $123,109 |
| 12 | DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC. | 195 | $158,450 |
| 13 | BOFA SECURITIES, INC. | 182 | $224,112 |
| 14 | BANK OF AMERICA | 163 | $121,796 |
| 15 | Citigroup Global Markets Inc. | 140 | $200,759 |
| 16 | UBS Securities LLC | 140 | $145,555 |
| 17 | KPMG LLP | 131 | $138,792 |
| 18 | Barclays Capital Inc. | 124 | $171,143 |
| 19 | Google LLC | 119 | $118,434 |
| 20 | FMR LLC | 112 | $113,608 |
| State | Filings | Avg. salary |
|---|---|---|
| New York | 8,888 | $146,918 |
| California | 3,001 | $123,718 |
| Illinois | 1,195 | $116,144 |
| Texas | 981 | $101,308 |
| New Jersey | 929 | $121,761 |
| Florida | 897 | $89,952 |
| Massachusetts | 706 | $116,720 |
| Connecticut | 647 | $130,239 |
| Washington | 634 | $100,778 |
| Pennsylvania | 385 | $94,328 |
| Virginia | 313 | $88,117 |
| North Carolina | 271 | $116,668 |
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Salaries are the certified offered annual wage on public U.S. Department of Labor H-1B (LCA) and PERM disclosure filings, not a guarantee of pay. Occupation is the DOL-assigned Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) code.