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Salaries / Financial Quantitative Analysts / Boston

Financial Quantitative Analysts salaries in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

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

Employers filed 165 certified H-1B applications for financial quantitative analysts in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH area (July 2025 to June 2026), from 68 employers.

The middle half of offers were $99,000 to $135,000 a year, with a median of $125,000: 13% below the national median for this job ($144,000).

The most common wage level was Level II (36% of filings).

25th percentile$99,000
Median offer$125,000
75th percentile$135,000
National median$144,000

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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)20%—
Level II (qualified)36%—
Level III (experienced)18%—
Level IV (fully competent)26%—

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

Who sponsors financial quantitative analysts here

EmployerH-1B filingsMedian offerGreen card filings (PERM, this job, US)
State Street Bank and Trust Company36$115,00013
Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC d/b/a Fidelity Investments14$125,000—
Strategic Advisers LLC d/b/a Fidelity Investments8$125,000—
Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership8$150,0005
Man Investments USA Holdings Inc5$130,0006
FMR LLC d/b/a Fidelity Investments4$103,500—
CRA International, Inc.4$97,500—
Sun Life Financial (U.S.) Services Company, Inc.3$120,000—
Ernst & Young U.S. LLP3$175,00021
Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. LLC3$150,0001
Invesco Group Services, Inc.3$135,0002
Citizens Financial Group, Inc.3$114,0001
Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC d/b/a Fidelity Investments2$132,000—
Amazon.com Services LLC2$103,500—
London Stock Exchange Group Holdings, Inc.2$210,0007

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Common titles filed under this occupation: Quantitative Researcher, Associate, Quantitative Analyst, Vice President, Financial Quantitative Analyst, Analyst, Vice President, Quantitative Engineering, Quantitative Trader.

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.