Open Data: US Work-Visa Real Salaries (H-1B / PERM / LCA)
Open Data: US Work-Visa Real Salaries (H-1B / PERM / LCA) — part of the DataForge Open Data program.
Full production packages, free for academic and personal use under CC BY-NC 4.0 (attribution + backlink required). Same files as served at https://dl.zalize.com/open-data/<package_id> (machine-readable index: https://dl.zalize.com/open-data).
Packages
| Package | Tier | Rows | Size | SHA-256 | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
visa_salaries-tier1-S-2026-08-02 |
S | 1,814,772 | 0.21 GB | ef1e0012c66e3dd4ddfc0767bc41c5cab86487edc268444131d227ec40f8a197 |
Single-state snapshot: all California-worksite filings (latest full corpus) + CA wage benchmarks |
visa_salaries-tier1-M-2026-08-02 |
M | 915,005 | 0.11 GB | 529f093717cded5635d4becb7fc34c346535dd9f1027b6c027bccb2e11622782 |
All programs, latest complete fiscal year (FY2025) incl. PERM + that year's benchmarks and employer profiles |
visa_salaries-tier1-L-2026-08-02 |
L | 14,535,607 | 1.68 GB | 7536976acc639e0594100656b356eba01f7700fc840c28f02a292ca4a92d8d9f |
Full longitudinal library FY2008-FY2026: all filings, USCIS employer hub, employer visa-dependency profiles and SOCxstate wage benchmarks with normalized employer IDs |
Data dictionary & datasheet
Field-level documentation lives in this repo under datasets/ and on the portal page: https://data.zalize.com/datasets/us-work-visa-salary-dataset
License
CC BY-NC 4.0 (DataForge curated layer) / commercial license — upstream: US federal public domain (17 U.S.C. §105)
- Academic / personal use: CC BY-NC 4.0 on the DataForge curated layer — attribution + backlink required.
- Commercial use: requires a DataForge commercial license — contact us via the portal.
- Upstream source: US DOL OFLC disclosure files + USCIS H-1B data. Upstream license terms (public domain / CC BY / OGL where applicable) continue to apply to the underlying data.
Citation / attribution
Please credit:
DataForge (data.zalize.com), built from official US DOL/USCIS disclosure files — https://data.zalize.com
For attribution-licensed upstreams keep the upstream credit (PatentsView CC BY 4.0; "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0").
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