Salaries / Judicial Law Clerks / New York
Judicial Law Clerks salaries in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
Auto-summary H-1B filings: DOL disclosure data
Employers filed 163 certified H-1B applications for judicial law clerks in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ area (July 2025 to June 2026), from 95 employers.
The middle half of offers were $70,000 to $126,000 a year, with a median of $80,000: 9% above the national median for this job ($73,500).
The most common wage level was Level II (29% 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) | 24% | — |
| Level II (qualified) | 29% | — |
| Level III (experienced) | 20% | — |
| Level IV (fully competent) | 27% | — |
We don't carry prevailing wages for this occupation yet; the DOL wage search has them.
Who sponsors judicial law clerks here
| Employer | H-1B filings | Median offer | Green card filings (PERM, this job, US) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norton Rose Fulbright Us Llp | 7 | $225,000 | — |
| Grape Law Firm Pllc | 7 | $85,000 | — |
| Hang & Associates, PLLC | 6 | $76,000 | — |
| Jun Wang & Associates, P.C. | 5 | $65,000 | — |
| The Law Offices of Fuqiang Zhang, P.C. | 5 | $73,500 | — |
| Sun & Ren PLLC | 5 | $74,000 | — |
| Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP | 5 | $225,000 | — |
| Miao & Associates, PLLC | 4 | $73,500 | — |
| Milbank Llp | 3 | $225,000 | — |
| The Law Office of Yao Lin PLLC | 3 | $344,500 | — |
| Chugh, Llp | 3 | $77,000 | — |
| Geng & Associates, P.C. | 3 | $63,000 | — |
| Elvinger SARL PLLC | 3 | $165,000 | — |
| Belcher, Smolen & Van Loo LLP | 3 | $125,000 | — |
| Sidley Austin (US) LLP | 3 | $225,000 | — |
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Common titles filed under this occupation: Law Clerk, Senior Law Clerk, Legal Consultant, Judicial Law Clerk, Sr. Law Clerk, Immigration Law Clerk, Law Clerk Ii, Attorney.
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.