Salaries / Financial Quantitative Analysts / Chicago
Financial Quantitative Analysts salaries in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN
Auto-summary H-1B filings: DOL disclosure data
Employers filed 274 certified H-1B applications for financial quantitative analysts in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN area (July 2025 to June 2026), from 111 employers.
The middle half of offers were $110,000 to $179,500 a year, with a median of $140,000: 3% below the national median for this job ($144,000).
The most common wage level was Level I (34% of filings).
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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) | 34% | — |
| Level II (qualified) | 32% | — |
| Level III (experienced) | 14% | — |
| Level IV (fully competent) | 20% | — |
We don't carry prevailing wages for this occupation yet; the DOL wage search has them.
Who sponsors financial quantitative analysts here
| Employer | H-1B filings | Median offer | Green card filings (PERM, this job, US) |
|---|---|---|---|
| IMC Americas, Inc. | 30 | $250,000 | 23 |
| Radix Trading, LLC | 18 | $183,500 | 7 |
| Akuna Capital, LLC | 13 | $165,000 | 9 |
| Team Belvedere, LLC | 11 | $140,000 | 3 |
| Sunrise Futures, LLC | 9 | $124,500 | 11 |
| The Options Clearing Corporation | 9 | $124,500 | 1 |
| CIBC Bank USA | 7 | $159,000 | 2 |
| Bank Of America N.A. | 7 | $140,000 | 50 |
| CTC Trading Group, LLC | 7 | $200,000 | 12 |
| Optiver Services US LLC | 6 | $200,000 | 3 |
| Compass Lexecon LLC | 5 | $115,000 | — |
| The Northern Trust Company | 5 | $103,500 | 2 |
| Chicago Mercantile Exchange | 4 | $115,000 | 4 |
| Tower Research Capital LLC | 4 | $175,000 | 11 |
| Geneva Trading Usa Llc | 3 | $130,000 | 3 |
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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.