Research Associate H-1B salaries

Employers filed 3,317 certified H-1B applications for Research Associate roles between Jan 2023 and Jun 2026. The median salary was $70,990.

Median salary offered: $70,990
Middle half earn: $62,858 to $80,983
Top 10% earn over: $95,967
Certified filings: 3,317

Every filing

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Pay by employer

Employer	Filings	Median	Middle half
Johns Hopkins University	173	$72,400	$69,098 – $76,491
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania	172	$75,000	$71,000 – $80,000
Harvard University	154	$82,000	$75,000 – $92,239
Mayo Clinic	146	$77,958	$70,554 – $91,204
Northwestern University	145	$70,000	$66,492 – $74,088
The University of Virginia	136	$63,435	$59,275 – $65,825
The University of Texas at Austin	96	$87,500	$67,000 – $104,506
Weill Cornell Medical College	94	$77,522	$71,649 – $85,000
Michigan State University	85	$62,571	$56,880 – $68,994
Cornell University	75	$76,500	$70,720 – $85,297
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	73	$80,000	$75,000 – $85,000
The University of Southern California	68	$69,071	$60,396 – $70,990
Oregon State University	61	$66,672	$59,027 – $70,896
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	58	$67,386	$62,145 – $74,340
University of Maryland Baltimore	54	$77,809	$72,155 – $81,062
UT Southwestern Medical Center	53	$56,000	$52,446 – $60,375
The Rockefeller University	48	$78,893	$75,272 – $84,250
The University of Texas at Dallas	38	$57,988	$55,082 – $63,882
Case Western Reserve University	37	$64,000	$56,795 – $68,000
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	37	$85,000	$82,694 – $85,588
Research Foundation of CUNY	34	$68,591	$62,743 – $74,970
University of Utah	33	$75,000	$67,000 – $86,100
Leland Stanford Jr. Univ/SLAC National Accelerator Lab	32	$78,853	$74,668 – $81,994
Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC	32	$66,706	$66,700 – $72,899
Fermi Research Alliance, LLC	30	$66,700	$65,000 – $66,706
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University	29	$75,000	$68,000 – $80,000
NYU Grossman School of Medicine	26	$63,282	$55,342 – $66,045
North Carolina State University	26	$63,324	$60,335 – $69,722
Bernstein Institutional Services LLC	24	$116,624	$105,000 – $120,000
Wayne State University	24	$59,307	$56,388 – $64,000
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center	22	$65,655	$61,157 – $77,002
Indiana University	21	$68,474	$62,322 – $72,453
University of Colorado Denver	20	$65,406	$59,774 – $69,264
Baylor College of Medicine	19	$73,542	$67,500 – $78,000
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	18	$59,716	$53,222 – $69,836
BOR USGA obo Augusta University	18	$47,169	$45,313 – $50,272
Cornerstone Research, Inc.	16	$160,000	$160,000 – $160,000
University of Cincinnati	16	$67,375	$59,935 – $86,616
Carnegie Mellon University	15	$61,008	$59,877 – $65,000
Brookhaven National Laboratory	15	$85,000	$80,766 – $92,410
Clemson University	14	$70,962	$63,198 – $91,625
Texas A&M University	14	$50,577	$46,873 – $52,376
The Methodist Hospital Research Institute	14	$70,800	$68,320 – $75,335
University of South Florida	14	$65,000	$60,498 – $71,500
The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital	14	$48,971	$48,000 – $50,000
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	13	$65,374	$56,472 – $74,672
University of Oklahoma	13	$62,000	$52,000 – $65,000
City of Hope National Medical Center	13	$66,560	$57,200 – $69,982
Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope	12	$74,237	$69,299 – $76,136
University of Oregon	12	$66,246	$62,768 – $80,078

Where these jobs are

Bigger dots mean more filings; darker blue means higher pay.

City	Filings	Median	Middle half
New York, NY	379	$80,000	$72,000 – $91,000
Baltimore, MD	224	$72,860	$70,000 – $78,000
Philadelphia, PA	206	$74,640	$70,000 – $79,000
Charlottesville, VA	133	$63,390	$59,300 – $65,900
Chicago, IL	108	$70,000	$64,257 – $74,132
Rochester, MN	104	$77,958	$69,929 – $91,204
Boston, MA	98	$85,902	$80,000 – $100,000
Los Angeles, CA	92	$69,036	$53,581 – $71,006
Austin, TX	86	$91,384	$68,000 – $109,638
Cambridge, MA	86	$78,949	$74,000 – $83,150
East Lansing, MI	79	$62,234	$56,843 – $67,733
Ithaca, NY	74	$76,250	$71,038 – $85,204
Evanston, IL	66	$69,965	$66,430 – $75,000
Batavia, IL	63	$66,706	$66,700 – $66,706
Chapel Hill, NC	57	$68,000	$62,592 – $74,340
Dallas, TX	56	$56,000	$52,376 – $60,375
Corvallis, OR	54	$66,670	$59,522 – $69,849
Houston, TX	44	$71,382	$65,978 – $77,402
Cleveland, OH	41	$64,330	$57,783 – $67,626
Cincinnati, OH	36	$66,532	$60,100 – $78,437

By experience level

Wage level	Filings	Median
Level I	1,624	$68,000
Level II	909	$75,000
Level III	382	$75,000
Level IV	118	$88,256

Levels I to IV are the Labor Department's experience bands, from entry level (I) to fully competent (IV).

By year

Year filed	Filings	Median
2023	436	$66,601
2024	1,211	$69,888
2025	1,101	$72,485
2026	569	$74,714