Project management specialists coordinate the budget, schedule, and resources to deliver projects on time. Based on 9,475 certified H-1B and PERM filings from U.S. Department of Labor disclosure data, the median sponsored salary for a Project Management Specialist is $135,000 per year.
| Percentile | Annual salary |
|---|---|
| 10th (entry) | $90,000 |
| 25th | $114,000 |
| 50th (median) | $135,000 |
| 75th | $157,768 |
| 90th (senior) | $182,333 |
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 335 matched Project Management Specialists petitions.
The median worker is paid 2.4% above the posted LCA wage, but the mean actual pay runs 2.1% above the mean posted wage — so the upside is concentrated in the top earners. 21.8% are paid above their posted wage, 74.3% at it, and 3.9% 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 9,475 filings, 634 are H-1B (temporary work visa) and 8,841 are PERM (green-card labor certification, 93% of the total).
| # | Employer | Filings | Avg. salary |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Corporation | 545 | $155,445 |
| 2 | Deloitte LLP | 409 | $157,582 |
| 3 | Accenture LLP | 393 | $134,351 |
| 4 | TATA CONSLTANCY SERVICES LIMITED | 381 | $139,693 |
| 5 | WAL-MART ASSOCIATES, INC. | 196 | $135,365 |
| 6 | COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS CORPORATION | 116 | $79,106 |
| 7 | MANHATTAN ASSOCIATES, INC. | 112 | $133,989 |
| 8 | U.S. Bank National Association | 108 | $112,161 |
| 9 | ZS Associates, Inc. | 105 | $177,629 |
| 10 | LinkedIn Corporation | 75 | $174,086 |
| 11 | Salesforce, Inc. | 73 | $160,305 |
| 12 | APPLE INC. | 71 | $153,624 |
| 13 | WIPRO LIMITED | 57 | $92,290 |
| 14 | CAPGEMINI AMERICA INC | 53 | $126,670 |
| 15 | Intel Corporation | 51 | $146,096 |
| 16 | EPAM Systems Inc. | 49 | $111,712 |
| 17 | IBM CORPORATION | 45 | $155,059 |
| 18 | KFORCE INC. | 44 | $128,676 |
| 19 | Oracle America, Inc. | 44 | $150,604 |
| 20 | META PLATFORMS, INC. | 40 | $189,843 |
| State | Filings | Avg. salary |
|---|---|---|
| California | 607 | $160,220 |
| New York | 449 | $143,236 |
| Texas | 430 | $120,314 |
| Washington | 282 | $156,759 |
| New Jersey | 151 | $134,740 |
| Florida | 139 | $114,045 |
| Illinois | 122 | $136,331 |
| Georgia | 78 | $127,916 |
| Massachusetts | 72 | $135,325 |
| Pennsylvania | 54 | $130,318 |
| Virginia | 51 | $132,162 |
| Michigan | 49 | $112,464 |
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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.