Salaries / Financial Risk Specialists / Seattle
Financial Risk Specialists salaries in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
Auto-summary H-1B filings: DOL disclosure data
Employers filed 105 certified H-1B applications for financial risk specialists in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area (July 2025 to June 2026), from 11 employers.
The middle half of offers were $111,000 to $151,000 a year, with a median of $132,000: 5% below the national median for this job ($138,500).
The most common wage level was Level II (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) | 14% | — |
| Level II (qualified) | 34% | — |
| Level III (experienced) | 30% | — |
| Level IV (fully competent) | 21% | — |
We don't carry prevailing wages for this occupation yet; the DOL wage search has them.
Who sponsors financial risk specialists here
| Employer | H-1B filings | Median offer | Green card filings (PERM, this job, US) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Corporation | 51 | $145,000 | 15 |
| Amazon.com Services LLC | 41 | $108,000 | 1 |
| Ernst & Young U.S. LLP | 2 | $154,000 | 20 |
| TT Commerce & Global Services LLC | 2 | $112,500 | — |
| Amazon Data Services, Inc | 2 | $150,000 | — |
| Invictus AI Consulting LLC | 2 | $126,000 | — |
| Amazon Payments, Inc. | 1 | $133,500 | — |
| Social Finance, LLC | 1 | $258,500 | 3 |
| Stripe, LLC | 1 | $193,000 | 8 |
| InnoRev Technologies, INC | 1 | $105,000 | — |
| Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company | 1 | $250,000 | — |
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Common titles filed under this occupation: Financial Analysis, Associate, Vice President, Risk Manager Ii, Risk Analyst, Risk Manager Iii, Risk Specialist I, Manager.
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.