Source DOL OFLC LCA disclosure FY2026 Q3 releaseCompared with BLS OEWS May 2025Status certified filings only
Employer filing record
Metropolitan Utilities District
Metropolitan Utilities District filed 6 certified H-1B, H-1B1 and E-3 Labor Condition Applications with usable wage data in the FY2026 Q3 release. The median annual wage offered on them, taking the bottom of each filing's stated range, was $137,996. Half fall between $127,342 and $141,717. The middle half spans 10 percent of the median.
Small sample. These figures rest on 6 filings, so the 25th and 75th percentiles fall on one or two applications and can move with a single filing. The 10th and 90th percentiles are not shown under 10 filings.
- Median wage filed
- $137,996per year
- Middle half
- $127,342
to$141,717 - Certified filings
- 6
The ledger
Wages by job title
No single job title reached 5 filings, so wages are published only for all of Metropolitan Utilities District's filings together.
Read it carefully. The US median is a national figure. The matched comparison uses each filing's own metro, so the two can disagree: matched by occupation and area, the median Metropolitan Utilities District filing was 22% above the benchmark, 122% of the local BLS median.
Prevailing wage level
Which wage level employers chose
A filing can name one of four prevailing wage levels for the job and area, from I (entry) to IV (fully competent), under the Department of Labor's wage guidance; some filings leave the level blank. Of the filings here that name a level, 0% were at level I, 17% at level II, 17% at level III and 67% at level IV.
Worksites
Where the filings are
| State | Filings | Filings relative to the top row |
|---|---|---|
| NE | 6 |
Ledger for the state with the most filings
State ledgers: Nebraska
Data release alerts
Hear when the next filing data lands
The Department of Labor publishes new LCA disclosure data a few times a year. Get a short email when Filed Wages updates, plus the occasional wage-level explainer.
Spellings of the employer name in the source file combined into this record: 1. Offered wages are the annualized rate on each application. This page summarizes public filings and says nothing about any individual worker's pay.
Method
How these numbers are made
Clerk's note. Wages are the bottom of each filing's offered range (WAGE_RATE_OF_PAY_FROM), so medians run low against OEWS. Percentiles are unweighted: each certified filing counts once regardless of the number of worker positions requested. Hourly OEWS-only occupations are annualized at 2,080 hours, which BLS does not publish.
Full method notes
- Only applications with case status exactly "Certified" are counted. Withdrawn, denied and certified-then-withdrawn cases are dropped.
- A Labor Condition Application covers H-1B, H-1B1 (Chile and Singapore) and E-3 (Australia) workers. Certification means the Department of Labor accepted the filing; it does not mean anyone was hired or paid that amount.
- Each wage is annualized from the stated rate: hourly times 2,080, weekly times 52, bi-weekly times 26, monthly times 12. Likely entry errors are dropped: wages with a missing or unrecognized pay unit, annualized values under $15,000, hourly rates over $1,000, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly amounts that look like annual salaries, and annualized values over $1,000,000 (yearly salaries up to $3,000,000 are kept for physicians and chief or general executives).
- Percentiles use linear interpolation. Groups with fewer than 5 filings are not published.
- The BLS comparison uses the OEWS median for the same 6-digit SOC occupation in the worksite metro area, or the worksite state when no metro figure exists. The matched ratio is each filing's wage over that median, then the median across filings.