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Financial and Investment Analysts in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Occupation in a metropolitan area · SOC 13-2051 · CBSA 16980

Occupation
Financial and Investment Analysts (SOC 13-2051)
Metropolitan area
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN
Applications FY2020–FY2026
3,011
Median offered wage
$125,000
Certified (last three years)
99.2%
Median wage$125,000certified LCAs FY2023–26
Year by year
Data as at 30 Jun 2026
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Applications year by year

LCA and PERM applications for Financial and Investment Analysts with a worksite in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metropolitan area, since FY2020.

Financial and Investment Analysts in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN: applications by fiscal year

242483FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
242483FY2020FY2022FY2024FY2026*
Data table
FY2020427
FY2021460
FY2022438
FY2023483
FY2024395
FY2025455
FY2026*353
Fiscal yearLCAPERM
FY2026*31340
FY202541045
FY202436530
FY202344637
FY202240038
FY202141842
FY202037453
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification — disclosure data FY2008–FY2026 Q3Data as at 30 Jun 2026

Employers

Largest sponsors of this occupation in this area.

Applications by employer
  1. Ernst & Young U.S. LLP714
  2. Deloitte Consulting LLP455
  3. Discover Products Inc.157
  4. Morningstar, Inc.142
  5. Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.103
  6. Jump Operations, LLC101
  7. KPMG LLP97
  8. William Blair & Company, LLC96
  9. Imc Americas, Inc.87
  10. Optiver US LLC87
  11. The Northern Trust Company82
  12. CTC Trading Group, LLC74
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification — disclosure data FY2008–FY2026 Q3Data as at 30 Jun 2026

Pay

Offered annual wages on certified labor condition applications, FY2023–FY2026.

Offered annual wage, 10th to 90th percentile (certified LCAs)

Median $125,000; middle half $100,000 to $175,000 · median prevailing wage $97,760 (marker) · 1,507 applications.

$60k$105k$150k$195k$240k
$60k$105k$150k$195k$240k
Prevailing wage level
  1. Level I373
  2. Level II516
  3. Level III332
  4. Level IV259
Job titles
  1. Financial Analyst208
  2. Analyst127
  3. Associate107
  4. Trader61
  5. Quantitative Trader42
  6. Senior Associate41
  7. Quantitative Researcher34
  8. Senior Financial Analyst32
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

Across the United States

Nationwide, Financial and Investment Analysts appears on 65,627 LCA and PERM applications since FY2020 from 11,206 employers in 344 metropolitan areas; Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN accounts for 4.59% of them, and its median offered wage is 7.4% below the national median of $135,000.

Applications nationwide, FY2020–FY2026
65,627
Metropolitan areas with filings
344
Employers nationwide
11,206
National median offered wage (certified LCAs, FY2023–FY2026)
$135,000
Share in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN
4.59%
Metropolitan areas with the most applications for Financial and Investment Analysts
  1. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ30,912
  2. San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA5,123
  3. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA3,162
  4. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN3,011
  5. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH2,388
  6. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA2,264
  7. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL1,797
  8. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX1,664
  9. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA1,501
  10. Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX1,272
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification — disclosure data FY2008–FY2026 Q3Data as at 30 Jun 2026

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