Salaries / Financial and Investment Analysts / San Francisco
Financial and Investment Analysts salaries in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA
Auto-summary H-1B filings: DOL disclosure data Prevailing wages: DOL wage year 2026-27
Employers filed 545 certified H-1B applications for financial and investment analysts in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA area (July 2025 to June 2026), from 277 employers.
The middle half of offers were $130,000 to $200,000 a year, with a median of $175,000: 19% above the national median for this job ($146,500).
The most common wage level was Level II (37% of filings).
The 2026-27 prevailing wage floor here is $85,800 at Level I and $114,046 at Level II.
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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.
| Level | Share of filings | Prevailing wage (minimum) |
|---|---|---|
| Level I (entry) | 20% | $85,800 |
| Level II (qualified) | 37% | $114,046 |
| Level III (experienced) | 20% | $142,272 |
| Level IV (fully competent) | 23% | $170,518 |
Who sponsors financial and investment analysts here
| Employer | H-1B filings | Median offer | Green card filings (PERM, this job, US) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ernst & Young U.S. LLP | 37 | $185,000 | 29 |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 27 | $175,000 | 71 |
| Goldman Sachs & Co. Llc | 18 | $225,000 | 86 |
| Morgan Stanley & Co., LLC | 18 | $179,000 | 26 |
| Evercore Partners Services East, LLC | 10 | $185,000 | 8 |
| Citigroup Global Markets Inc. | 10 | $175,000 | 8 |
| BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. | 7 | $162,500 | 2 |
| Visa U.S.A. Inc. | 7 | $159,500 | 2 |
| Jefferies LLC | 7 | $175,000 | 9 |
| Lazard Freres & Co. LLC | 6 | $275,000 | 2 |
| Qatalyst Partners LP | 6 | $162,500 | 1 |
| Bofa Securities, Inc. | 6 | $200,000 | 46 |
| Ubs Securities Llc | 6 | $167,500 | 8 |
| Anthropic, PBC | 5 | $183,000 | — |
| Meta Platforms, Inc | 5 | $150,000 | — |
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Common titles filed under this occupation: Financial Analyst, Associate, Analyst, Vice President, Financial Analyst Iii, Financial Analyst Ii, Senior Associate, Senior Financial Analyst.
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.