H-1B wage filings in La Jolla, CA
Jobs with a worksite in La Jolla, California. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
504 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas named La Jolla, CA as the worksite from July 2025 to June 2026, from 48 employers. The median offered wage was $82,565, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for those jobs in the area. The most-filed job was Postdoctoral Scholar Employee (84).
- Filings
- 504
- Positions covered
- 489
- Employers
- 48
- Median offered
- $82,565
- Median prevailing wage
- $78,749
- Filings since FY2020
- 2,657
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +28%
Offered wage since 2020
The median wage offered for jobs in La Jolla, CA rose 28%, from $65,000 in fiscal 2020 to $82,921 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2025, with 443 filings.
Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year
Fiscal years run October to September. Fiscal 2026 is still running: these figures cover October 2025 to June 2026.
La Jolla, CA by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 380 | $82,921 | +3.6% | $79,177 | at the minimum |
| 2025 | 443 | $80,034 | +3.6% | $76,329 | +1.3% |
| 2024 | 427 | $77,237 | +3.0% | $69,342 | +6.1% |
| 2023 | 429 | $75,000 | +8.6% | $68,049 | +9.4% |
| 2022 | 440 | $69,047 | +3.1% | $63,726 | +2.8% |
| 2021 | 291 | $67,000 | +3.1% | $64,008 | +0.3% |
| 2020 | 247 | $65,000 | n/a | $63,387 | +4.5% |
Employers filing for jobs in La Jolla
Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage
Showing the 25 employers with the most filings of 48. Employers with fewer than 5 filings in total are counted but not named.
Most-filed job titles in La Jolla
| Job title | Filings | Median offered | Offered range and prevailing wage | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Postdoctoral Scholar Employee | 84 | $74,425 | at the minimum | |
| Assistant Project Scientist | 68 | $85,000 | at the minimum | |
| Staff Scientist | 40 | $78,749 | +11.2% | |
| Postdoctoral Associate | 37 | $70,304 | +25.7% | |
| Staff Research Associate III | 34 | $77,804 | at the minimum | |
| Assistant Professor | 27 | $141,100 | +44.5% | |
| Postdoctoral Fellow | 20 | $78,541 | +1.2% | |
| Staff Research Associate IV | 17 | $80,656 | at the minimum | |
| Assistant Adjunct Professor | 6 | $117,850 | +24.0% | |
| Associate Project Scientist | 6 | $93,300 | at the minimum | |
| Assistant Research Scientist | 5 | $122,700 | at the minimum | |
| Research & Development Engineer 3 | 5 | $92,000 | +7.7% | |
| Research Scientist (PhD) | 5 | $78,000 | +10.0% | |
| Assistant Teaching Professor (LPSOE) | 4 | $133,950 | +62.2% | |
| Computational and Data Science Research P4 | 4 | $126,588 | +55.8% | |
| Lecturer | 4 | $92,975 | at the minimum | |
| Research Assistant II | 4 | $52,343 | +4.5% | |
| Research Scientist | 4 | $81,250 | +7.0% | |
| Bioinformatics Programmer 3 | 3 | $98,184 | +23.3% | |
| Computational and Data Science Research P3 | 3 | $101,508 | +29.7% | |
| Field Researcher 3 | 3 | $72,012 | +85.0% | |
| Research Data Analyst 3 | 3 | $92,000 | +42.1% | |
| Research Data Analyst P3 | 3 | $95,640 | +68.6% | |
| Scientist I | 3 | $88,000 | +45.2% | |
| Scientist II | 3 | $110,000 | +72.9% | |
Seniority of the jobs filed
The government assigns each job one of four wage levels. A higher level means a higher legal minimum.
What these numbers are
- They are wages employers attested to on Labor Condition Applications (Form ETA-9035), not paychecks. Bonuses and stock are not included.
- A filing is not a visa or a hire. One filing can cover several positions, and some are later withdrawn. Wage figures use certified filings only.
- The prevailing wage is the minimum the employer must pay for that job in that area, set from government wage surveys.
- The city is the worksite on the filing, which can be a client's office or a remote worker's home, not the employer's headquarters.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.