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Financial Specialists, All Other in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Occupation in a metropolitan area · SOC 13-2099 · CBSA 16980

Occupation
Financial Specialists, All Other (SOC 13-2099)
Metropolitan area
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN
Applications FY2020–FY2026
1,908
Median offered wage
$135,000
Certified (last three years)
99.7%
Median wage$135,000certified 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 Specialists, All Other with a worksite in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metropolitan area, since FY2020.

Financial Specialists, All Other in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN: applications by fiscal year

170340FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
170340FY2020FY2022FY2024FY2026*
Data table
FY2020225
FY2021255
FY2022238
FY2023276
FY2024240
FY2025340
FY2026*334
Fiscal yearLCAPERM
FY2026*25975
FY202524694
FY202420337
FY202320373
FY202220038
FY202122134
FY202019233
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. LLP184
  2. Radix Trading, LLC112
  3. Imc Americas, Inc.94
  4. CTC Trading Group, LLC78
  5. The Northern Trust Company76
  6. Akuna Capital LLC75
  7. DRW Holdings, LLC70
  8. Sunrise Futures, LLC60
  9. The Options Clearing Corporation58
  10. Morningstar, Inc.55
  11. Valkyrie Trading49
  12. Jump Operations, LLC48
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 $135,000; middle half $100,000 to $170,000 · median prevailing wage $77,938 (marker) · 907 applications.

$60k$95k$130k$165k$200k
$60k$95k$130k$165k$200k
Prevailing wage level
  1. Level I246
  2. Level II327
  3. Level III173
  4. Level IV165
Job titles
  1. Quantitative Researcher169
  2. Financial Quantitative Analyst68
  3. Quantitative Trader65
  4. Quantitative Analyst52
  5. Trader48
  6. Quantitative Trading Analyst35
  7. Financial Quantitative Analysts24
  8. Associate21
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

Across the United States

Nationwide, Financial Specialists, All Other appears on 31,804 LCA and PERM applications since FY2020 from 3,692 employers in 215 metropolitan areas; Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN accounts for 6.00% of them, and its median offered wage is 3.8% above the national median of $130,021.

Applications nationwide, FY2020–FY2026
31,804
Metropolitan areas with filings
215
Employers nationwide
3,692
National median offered wage (certified LCAs, FY2023–FY2026)
$130,021
Share in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN
6.00%
Metropolitan areas with the most applications for Financial Specialists, All Other
  1. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ15,411
  2. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN1,908
  3. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX1,537
  4. San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA1,493
  5. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH1,240
  6. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA864
  7. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD863
  8. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV702
  9. Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC681
  10. Salt Lake City-Murray, UT674
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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