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Salaries / Computer Programmers / Minneapolis

Computer Programmers salaries in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI

Auto-summary H-1B filings: DOL disclosure data

Employers filed 106 certified H-1B applications for computer programmers in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI area (July 2025 to June 2026), from 45 employers.

The middle half of offers were $90,500 to $105,500 a year, with a median of $90,500: 5% below the national median for this job ($95,000).

The most common wage level was Level II (73% of filings).

25th percentile$90,500
Median offer$90,500
75th percentile$105,500
National median$95,000

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Wage levels

DOL sets four wage levels by experience. The share of filings at each level, and the minimum the employer must pay for that level here.

LevelShare of filingsPrevailing wage (minimum)
Level I (entry)4%—
Level II (qualified)73%—
Level III (experienced)18%—
Level IV (fully competent)6%—

We don't carry prevailing wages for this occupation yet; the DOL wage search has them.

Who sponsors computer programmers here

EmployerH-1B filingsMedian offerGreen card filings (PERM, this job, US)
Wipro Limited23$90,500—
Tata Consultancy Services Limited13$90,500—
Persistent Systems, Inc.8$101,5002
Accenture LLP6$122,000—
Msr Technology Group Llc6$98,0005
Skilltune Technologies Inc4$96,50012
Mphasis Corporation4$103,500110
Compunnel Software Group, Inc2$94,500—
Hcl America Inc2$90,500—
ITProfound, Inc.2$105,500—
Icon IT Group2$110,000—
Tavant Technologies, Inc.1$113,000—
Versa Shore Inc1$90,000—
V-Soft Consulting Group, INC1$91,000—
Cginfosys Inc1$90,500—

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Common titles filed under this occupation: Computer Programmer, Software Engineer, Developer, Programmer Analyst, Java Developer, Technical Lead L1, Software Developer, Software Programmer.

About this data

Offers are the wages employers put on certified Labor Condition Applications (LCAs) for H-1B workers: Certified H-1B LCAs decided July 2025 to June 2026. An LCA is filed before a petition, so not every filing became a job, and pay excludes bonus and stock. Annual pay; hourly offers are multiplied by 2,080. Pages appear only where there were at least 100 filings. Source: DOL disclosure data and OFLC wage data. Not legal or financial advice.