Howard Hughes Medical Institute H-1B salaries

Howard Hughes Medical Institute filed 357 certified H-1B applications between Jan 2023 and Jun 2026. Half of them paid more than $81,149 a year. The typical offer was 28% above the prevailing wage, the minimum the law sets for the job and place.

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Median salary offered: $81,149
Middle half earn: $77,250 to $89,428
Top 10% earn over: $107,682
Certified filings: 357

Every filing

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Pay by job title


Postdoctoral Scientist	121	$80,000	–	$77,000 – $83,513
Postdoctoral Associate	104	$78,786	+17%	$74,263 – $81,149
Research Specialist	78	$87,930	+30%	$83,200 – $97,103
Research Specialist II	12	$93,273	+57%	$88,923 – $100,000
Research Associate	5	$76,000	+7%	$72,789 – $76,426
Research Scientist	4	$77,518	−50%	$63,856 – $91,729
Bioinformatics Specailist	4	$127,680	–	$114,520 – $145,651
Theory Fellow	3	$102,334	–	$93,832 – $105,984
Software Engineer	3	$108,555	−21%	$101,778 – $120,699
Research Specialist I	3	$90,000	+52%	$77,500 – $90,000
Principal Investigator	3	$214,352	+89%	$207,040 – $217,718
Group Leader	3	$202,660	+105%	$196,852 – $204,646
Bioinformatics Specialist	2	$122,659	+44%	$118,473 – $126,845
Senior Software Engineer	2	$147,596	0%	$147,046 – $148,146
Investments Solutions Architect	2	$180,090	–	$180,090 – $180,090
Machine Leaning Researcher	1	$113,850	–	$113,850 – $113,850
Engineer	1	$100,000	−10%	$100,000 – $100,000
Director, Mass Spectrometry	1	$186,300	–	$186,300 – $186,300
Machine Learning Researcher	1	$165,000	−9%	$165,000 – $165,000
Senior Scientist	1	$146,464	+22%	$146,464 – $146,464
Scientific Computing Associate	1	$83,000	–	$83,000 – $83,000
Software Engineer II	1	$122,000	−6%	$122,000 – $122,000
Staff Scientist & CryoEM Acquisition Lead	1	$123,333	–	$123,333 – $123,333

Where they work

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


Ashburn, VA	71	$86,018	$78,713 – $105,928
New York, NY	44	$86,970	$80,150 – $91,039
Boston, MA	29	$78,786	$75,130 – $86,000
Seattle, WA	20	$80,658	$77,969 – $86,887
Stanford, CA	17	$82,000	$80,000 – $86,040
Dallas, TX	16	$80,143	$74,263 – $85,750
Berkeley, CA	16	$81,070	$78,212 – $83,811
Cambridge, MA	12	$81,800	$79,829 – $83,831
Baltimore, MD	11	$80,500	$79,393 – $81,074
La Jolla, CA	9	$82,000	$78,786 – $102,024
San Francisco, CA	9	$76,491	$72,100 – $85,250
Durham, NC	8	$77,246	$74,816 – $81,037
Worcester, MA	7	$76,500	$75,996 – $82,250
Princeton, NJ	7	$85,385	$82,392 – $92,456
Cold Spring Harbor, NY	7	$82,795	$81,750 – $92,045
Davis, CA	6	$82,366	$81,149 – $87,967
Chapel Hill, NC	6	$79,875	$77,250 – $84,375
Bloomington, IN	4	$86,350	$80,000 – $93,048
New Haven, CT	4	$85,944	$81,254 – $89,479
Miami, FL	4	$77,000	$73,000 – $82,750

By year


2023	24	$82,998
2024	141	$81,000
2025	122	$82,250
2026	70	$82,742

By experience level


Level I	52	$74,100
Level II	271	$82,000
Level III	25	$92,456
Level IV	9	$199,728