Research Scientist H-1B salaries

Employers filed 5,529 certified H-1B applications for Research Scientist roles between Jan 2023 and Jun 2026. The median salary was $153,727.

Median salary offered: $153,727
Middle half earn: $79,989 to $196,190
Top 10% earn over: $224,000
Certified filings: 5,529

Every filing

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Pay by employer

Employer	Filings	Median	Middle half
Meta Platforms, Inc	1,503	$191,678	$180,818 – $217,791
Google LLC	502	$200,000	$184,000 – $222,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	226	$85,000	$77,921 – $100,002
NVIDIA Corporation	208	$169,242	$160,000 – $198,141
Intel Corporation	139	$136,448	$130,530 – $170,950
The University of Virginia	102	$69,200	$64,550 – $75,000
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	83	$75,000	$70,543 – $77,781
ByteDance Inc.	82	$255,300	$214,910 – $340,000
UT Southwestern Medical Center	72	$70,160	$65,750 – $74,652
NYU Grossman School of Medicine	69	$87,000	$77,700 – $100,000
The Ohio State University	65	$81,869	$71,000 – $91,800
University of Pittsburgh	52	$66,731	$61,800 – $72,524
Brigham and Women's Hospital	50	$75,000	$71,102 – $80,000
IBM Corporation	47	$210,000	$200,000 – $235,546
Trustees of Boston University	46	$74,314	$68,490 – $89,100
Research Foundation of Suny at Buffalo	44	$64,698	$60,178 – $70,201
University of Illinois	41	$75,000	$66,000 – $85,987
Research Foundation for the State University of New York	40	$73,933	$70,000 – $77,246
General Hospital Corporation	39	$71,406	$65,000 – $80,750
KLA Corporation	37	$160,000	$128,300 – $174,900
Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC	34	$180,586	$164,100 – $188,298
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio	34	$59,000	$56,325 – $65,000
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University	32	$79,728	$74,750 – $100,000
Purdue University	32	$88,380	$71,050 – $105,501
The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital	32	$76,000	$73,383 – $80,000
QPS, LLC	30	$89,809	$87,586 – $92,209
Van Andel Research Institute	29	$76,875	$73,500 – $78,773
Duke University	27	$83,959	$70,000 – $85,000
Netflix, Inc.	26	$257,421	$227,131 – $257,421
Waymo LLC	23	$205,000	$184,500 – $232,500
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	23	$67,824	$65,724 – $70,020
Cleveland Clinic Foundation	22	$71,869	$67,098 – $73,831
Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc.	22	$71,140	$66,440 – $100,097
New York University	21	$80,000	$75,000 – $90,000
University of Texas Medical Branch	21	$65,134	$64,770 – $68,500
Trustees of Dartmouth College	20	$70,516	$64,024 – $73,986
The University of Texas at Dallas	20	$72,556	$66,248 – $80,000
Bay Area Environmental Research Institute	20	$110,591	$93,750 – $130,066
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	20	$108,326	$95,139 – $124,158
Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund	19	$65,000	$59,264 – $73,174
Cleveland Clinic	19	$66,029	$53,770 – $66,614
The Methodist Hospital Research Institute	18	$95,000	$88,481 – $119,453
TikTok Inc.	18	$200,640	$174,643 – $247,500
Yale University	18	$93,166	$81,000 – $100,000
University of Oklahoma	18	$80,242	$75,469 – $89,340
Texas A&M University	18	$72,500	$59,024 – $79,000
The Curators of the University of Missouri	18	$51,668	$50,856 – $56,478
California Institute of Technology	17	$85,000	$73,840 – $90,006
The University of Southern California	17	$111,509	$85,779 – $120,000
J-Star Research, Inc.	16	$105,000	$85,775 – $112,697

Where these jobs are

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

City	Filings	Median	Middle half
Menlo Park, CA	708	$186,384	$182,000 – $219,737
New York, NY	479	$185,723	$152,500 – $215,000
Cambridge, MA	311	$90,000	$78,238 – $114,600
Mountain View, CA	308	$202,000	$188,000 – $228,499
Bellevue, WA	253	$200,640	$176,571 – $211,778
Sunnyvale, CA	182	$200,000	$180,800 – $222,950
Boston, MA	162	$75,452	$69,999 – $90,000
Houston, TX	151	$75,000	$69,974 – $80,000
Santa Clara, CA	140	$168,790	$164,403 – $201,094
Seattle, WA	112	$180,184	$172,789 – $210,456
Columbus, OH	101	$78,000	$71,843 – $90,000
San Jose, CA	100	$235,000	$184,840 – $288,900
Charlottesville, VA	99	$69,000	$64,500 – $75,000
Pittsburgh, PA	85	$72,295	$65,000 – $103,000
Dallas, TX	79	$70,179	$66,000 – $75,000
San Francisco, CA	78	$203,500	$177,340 – $220,000
Hillsboro, OR	77	$130,603	$130,458 – $154,390
Redmond, WA	73	$203,350	$176,571 – $211,823
Los Angeles, CA	62	$120,000	$98,306 – $173,971
Buffalo, NY	53	$67,059	$60,484 – $72,000

By experience level

Wage level	Filings	Median
Level I	1,310	$75,000
Level II	1,930	$170,186
Level III	913	$152,440
Level IV	503	$214,032

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	424	$77,830
2024	1,704	$130,000
2025	1,852	$135,056
2026	1,549	$186,200