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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. The typical offer was 11% above the prevailing wage, the minimum the law sets for the job and place.

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

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Pay by employer

EmployerFilingsMedianvs allMiddle half
Johns Hopkins University173$72,400+2%$69,098 – $76,491
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania172$75,000+6%$71,000 – $80,000
Harvard University154$82,000+16%$75,000 – $92,239
Mayo Clinic146$77,958+10%$70,554 – $91,204
Northwestern University145$70,000−1%$66,492 – $74,088
The University of Virginia136$63,435−11%$59,275 – $65,825
The University of Texas at Austin96$87,500+23%$67,000 – $104,506
Weill Cornell Medical College94$77,522+9%$71,649 – $85,000
Michigan State University85$62,571−12%$56,880 – $68,994
Cornell University75$76,500+8%$70,720 – $85,297
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center73$80,000+13%$75,000 – $85,000
The University of Southern California68$69,071−3%$60,396 – $70,990
Oregon State University61$66,672−6%$59,027 – $70,896
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill58$67,386−5%$62,145 – $74,340
University of Maryland Baltimore54$77,809+10%$72,155 – $81,062
UT Southwestern Medical Center53$56,000−21%$52,446 – $60,375
The Rockefeller University48$78,893+11%$75,272 – $84,250
The University of Texas at Dallas38$57,988−18%$55,082 – $63,882
Case Western Reserve University37$64,000−10%$56,795 – $68,000
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey37$85,000+20%$82,694 – $85,588
Research Foundation of CUNY34$68,591−3%$62,743 – $74,970
University of Utah33$75,000+6%$67,000 – $86,100
Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC32$66,706−6%$66,700 – $72,899
Leland Stanford Jr. Univ/SLAC National Accelerator Lab32$78,853+11%$74,668 – $81,994
Fermi Research Alliance, LLC30$66,700−6%$65,000 – $66,706
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University29$75,000+6%$68,000 – $80,000
North Carolina State University26$63,324−11%$60,335 – $69,722
NYU Grossman School of Medicine26$63,282−11%$55,342 – $66,045
Bernstein Institutional Services LLC24$116,624+64%$105,000 – $120,000
Wayne State University24$59,307−16%$56,388 – $64,000
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center22$65,655−8%$61,157 – $77,002
Indiana University21$68,474−4%$62,322 – $72,453
University of Colorado Denver20$65,406−8%$59,774 – $69,264
Baylor College of Medicine19$73,542+4%$67,500 – $78,000
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center18$59,716−16%$53,222 – $69,836
BOR USGA obo Augusta University18$47,169−34%$45,313 – $50,272
University of Cincinnati16$67,375−5%$59,935 – $86,616
Cornerstone Research, Inc.16$160,000+125%$160,000 – $160,000
Carnegie Mellon University15$61,008−14%$59,877 – $65,000
Brookhaven National Laboratory15$85,000+20%$80,766 – $92,410
The Methodist Hospital Research Institute14$70,8000%$68,320 – $75,335
Clemson University14$70,9620%$63,198 – $91,625
University of South Florida14$65,000−8%$60,498 – $71,500
Texas A&M University14$50,577−29%$46,873 – $52,376
The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital14$48,971−31%$48,000 – $50,000
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia13$65,374−8%$56,472 – $74,672
City of Hope National Medical Center13$66,560−6%$57,200 – $69,982
University of Oklahoma13$62,000−13%$52,000 – $65,000
University of Oregon12$66,246−7%$62,768 – $80,078
Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope12$74,237+5%$69,299 – $76,136

Where these jobs are

Bigger dots mean more filings; darker blue means higher pay.
CityFilingsMedianMiddle half
New York, NY379$80,000$72,000 – $91,000
Baltimore, MD224$72,860$70,000 – $78,000
Philadelphia, PA206$74,640$70,000 – $79,000
Charlottesville, VA133$63,390$59,300 – $65,900
Chicago, IL108$70,000$64,257 – $74,132
Rochester, MN104$77,958$69,929 – $91,204
Boston, MA98$85,902$80,000 – $100,000
Los Angeles, CA92$69,036$53,581 – $71,006
Cambridge, MA86$78,949$74,000 – $83,150
Austin, TX86$91,384$68,000 – $109,638
East Lansing, MI79$62,234$56,843 – $67,733
Ithaca, NY74$76,250$71,038 – $85,204
Evanston, IL66$69,965$66,430 – $75,000
Batavia, IL63$66,706$66,700 – $66,706
Chapel Hill, NC57$68,000$62,592 – $74,340
Dallas, TX56$56,000$52,376 – $60,375
Corvallis, OR54$66,670$59,522 – $69,849
Houston, TX44$71,382$65,978 – $77,402
Cleveland, OH41$64,330$57,783 – $67,626
Cincinnati, OH36$66,532$60,100 – $78,437

By experience level

Wage levelFilingsMedian
Level I1,624$68,000
Level II909$75,000
Level III382$75,000
Level IV118$88,256

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

By year

Year filedFilingsMedian
2023436$66,601
20241,211$69,888
20251,101$72,485
2026569$74,714

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