Postdoctoral Fellow H-1B salaries

Employers filed 2,495 certified H-1B applications for Postdoctoral Fellow roles between Jan 2023 and Jun 2026. The median salary was $65,520.

Median salary offered: $65,520
Middle half earn: $60,000 to $72,500
Top 10% earn over: $78,541
Certified filings: 2,495

Every filing

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Pay by employer

Employer	Filings	Median	Middle half
Emory University	165	$62,232	$59,592 – $66,492
NYU Grossman School of Medicine	149	$74,200	$71,582 – $80,000
Harvard University	137	$70,304	$67,600 – $73,868
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	122	$67,900	$63,852 – $72,075
The University of Texas at Austin	120	$64,960	$60,000 – $69,984
The Curators of the University of Missouri	105	$53,560	$50,856 – $57,056
Johns Hopkins University	101	$68,964	$64,462 – $72,731
Indiana University Indianapolis	79	$62,232	$61,008 – $65,768
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	77	$79,205	$75,795 – $81,581
Georgia Institute of Technology	76	$64,740	$59,210 – $69,760
University of Maryland Baltimore	76	$63,852	$61,572 – $70,448
Clemson University	58	$60,000	$56,491 – $65,000
Auburn University	53	$60,000	$56,472 – $64,854
University of Houston	50	$58,234	$54,108 – $62,780
Albert Einstein College of Medicine	48	$69,480	$67,750 – $74,263
BOR USGA obo Augusta University	44	$58,656	$56,368 – $60,720
Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund	43	$63,650	$57,184 – $69,320
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies	42	$76,000	$73,798 – $78,541
The Methodist Hospital Research Institute	41	$64,978	$64,058 – $66,276
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	40	$74,300	$72,800 – $74,300
University of Connecticut Health Center	39	$61,500	$61,008 – $66,360
Colorado State University	37	$63,000	$60,000 – $66,900
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis	35	$57,846	$56,682 – $61,476
Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope	29	$72,141	$70,720 – $74,322
Indiana University	29	$60,320	$56,100 – $72,000
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Inc.	25	$67,517	$64,626 – $69,805
University of Cincinnati	24	$60,236	$54,567 – $63,572
Northwestern University	24	$62,810	$59,524 – $70,000
University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture	19	$53,000	$49,887 – $60,000
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley	18	$53,500	$47,428 – $55,224
City of Hope National Medical Center	18	$73,224	$71,606 – $75,437
Genentech, Inc.	18	$85,197	$85,197 – $94,255
Carnegie Mellon University	17	$70,000	$65,000 – $71,781
University of Texas Medical Branch	17	$61,428	$57,300 – $64,356
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center	15	$65,640	$63,120 – $67,000
The University of Texas at San Antonio	15	$62,650	$60,233 – $71,926
Virginia Commonwealth University	15	$61,008	$59,426 – $65,539
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc.	15	$66,492	$64,104 – $72,500
Van Andel Research Institute	15	$73,000	$71,750 – $76,623
The University of Kansas Medical Center	14	$64,438	$61,571 – $65,000
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	13	$95,997	$95,801 – $100,944
University of Utah	13	$65,000	$62,232 – $78,707
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	13	$61,884	$56,880 – $65,640
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans	13	$66,228	$61,008 – $66,492
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania	11	$75,000	$71,675 – $75,500
Research Foundation of CUNY	11	$76,315	$70,000 – $86,944
La Jolla Institute for Immunology	11	$70,999	$70,990 – $71,760
The Curators of the University of Missouri/Missouri University of Science and Technology	11	$55,000	$49,682 – $57,574
Georgetown University	10	$61,386	$60,250 – $63,000
University of South Carolina	10	$54,020	$53,040 – $63,267

Where these jobs are

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

City	Filings	Median	Middle half
New York, NY	246	$76,987	$72,524 – $80,415
Atlanta, GA	241	$62,421	$59,178 – $66,560
Houston, TX	215	$65,000	$59,688 – $70,608
Baltimore, MD	169	$66,492	$62,652 – $71,500
Cambridge, MA	123	$70,304	$67,600 – $73,934
Austin, TX	118	$64,960	$60,000 – $69,994
Indianapolis, IN	114	$61,446	$58,539 – $65,000
Columbia, MO	100	$53,622	$50,856 – $57,014
La Jolla, CA	53	$74,675	$71,760 – $78,000
Bronx, NY	52	$69,480	$67,000 – $74,263
New Orleans, LA	52	$64,003	$57,592 – $68,028
Auburn, AL	51	$60,000	$55,981 – $62,939
Augusta, GA	44	$58,656	$56,368 – $60,720
Clemson, SC	42	$60,000	$55,221 – $64,641
Cold Spring Harbor, NY	40	$74,300	$72,800 – $74,300
Farmington, CT	39	$61,500	$61,008 – $66,360
Duarte, CA	35	$72,141	$70,964 – $74,880
Fort Collins, CO	34	$63,426	$60,000 – $66,744
Boston, MA	29	$68,000	$65,000 – $76,000
Bloomington, IN	26	$59,934	$55,555 – $77,994

By experience level

Wage level	Filings	Median
Level I	2,042	$65,000
Level II	171	$69,805
Level III	57	$70,845
Level IV	5	$73,350

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	396	$60,746
2024	864	$65,000
2025	812	$67,600
2026	423	$68,922