Salaries / Project Management Specialists / Chicago
Project Management Specialists salaries in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN
Auto-summary H-1B filings: DOL disclosure data
Employers filed 138 certified H-1B applications for project management specialists in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN area (July 2025 to June 2026), from 95 employers.
The middle half of offers were $90,000 to $139,000 a year, with a median of $131,500: 6% above the national median for this job ($124,000).
The most common wage level was Level IV (46% 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) | 10% | — |
| Level II (qualified) | 25% | — |
| Level III (experienced) | 19% | — |
| Level IV (fully competent) | 46% | — |
We don't carry prevailing wages for this occupation yet; the DOL wage search has them.
Who sponsors project management specialists here
| Employer | H-1B filings | Median offer | Green card filings (PERM, this job, US) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capital One, National Association | 10 | $133,000 | — |
| PayPal, Inc. | 7 | $135,500 | 23 |
| Amazon.com Services LLC | 5 | $145,000 | 1 |
| SAI Advanced Power Solutions Inc. | 5 | $90,000 | — |
| Discover Products Inc. | 4 | $133,000 | 5 |
| Adyen N.V. | 3 | $133,000 | 6 |
| DFS Corporate Services LLC | 3 | $133,000 | 9 |
| STV Construction Inc. | 3 | $90,000 | — |
| Infosys Limited | 3 | $111,500 | — |
| DFS Services LLC | 3 | $133,000 | — |
| Capital One Services, LLC | 2 | $134,500 | — |
| AbbVie Inc. | 2 | $128,000 | 4 |
| SBA Acquisition Group | 2 | $90,000 | — |
| IFS North America, Inc | 2 | $148,500 | — |
| CADDi Co., Ltd. | 2 | $112,500 | — |
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Common titles filed under this occupation: Project Manager, Program Manager Iii, Project Management Specialist, Program Manager Ii, Product Manager, Domain Project Lead 2, Program Manager, Assistant Project 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.