American Museum of Natural History H-1B wage filings

New York, NY. Last filed in fiscal 2026. Figures cover every filing since fiscal 2020; none in the latest 12 months reach five.

American Museum of Natural History filed 29 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from fiscal 2020 to fiscal 2026. The median wage it offered was $71,686, 15.3% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Vertebrate Paleo Preparator (4 filings, median $53,381).

Filings since FY2020: 29
Positions covered: 28
Certified: 96.6%
Job titles: 20
Worksite cities: 1
Last filed: FY2026

Offered wage since 2020

American Museum of Natural History's median H-1B wage offer rose 3%, from $67,000 in fiscal 2020 to $69,108 in fiscal 2025. In fiscal 2025 it was 12.6% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2023, with 9 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.

American Museum of Natural History by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
2025	5	$69,108	+4.0%	$61,360	+12.6%
2024	3	$66,445	−35.8%	$62,192	+6.8%
2023	9	$103,504	+88.6%	$82,680	+17.5%
2022	4	$54,874	n/a	$46,088	+24.8%
2021	2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
2020	5	$67,000	n/a	$56,181	+19.3%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job title	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Vertebrate Paleo Preparator	4	$53,381	+31.7%
Postdoctoral Fellow	3	$74,263	+8.7%
Biodiversity Informatics Specialist	2	$70,417	+10.8%
Life Sciences Educator	2	$48,410	+22.1%
Museum Specialist	2	$53,556	at the minimum
Open-Rank Curator of Mineralogy, Div. of Physical Sciences	2	$145,000	+18.3%
Creative Technologist	1	$78,000	+1.2%
Curatorial Associate	1	$112,008	+30.1%
Data Collections Manager, Astrophysics	1	$94,374	+8.0%
Database Manager for Collections	1	$95,000	+19.8%
Full Curator and Professor in Dinosaur Paleobiology	1	$200,000	+66.2%
Lead Digital Artist	1	$92,882	+6.4%
Major Gifts Officer	1	$130,000	+37.2%
Members Program Coordinator	1	$52,000	+1.9%
Poctdoctoral Fellow	1	$65,000	+1.6%
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Ornithology	1	$66,445	+6.8%
Research Scientist, Experimental Petrology	1	$67,000	+19.3%
Senior Creative Technologist	1	$98,746	+25.3%
Senior Major Gifts Officer	1	$150,000	+4.3%
Senior Museum Specialist III, Invertebrate Zoology	1	n/a

Where the jobs are

Worksite	Filings	Median offered
New York, NY	29	$71,686

By visa type: 23 H-1B, 6 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 28 certified, 1 withdrawn before a decision.

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry32%

Level II, qualified41%

Level III, experienced9%

Level IV, fully competent18%

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 American Museum of Natural History 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.
1 filing is for part-time work. Hourly wages are shown as full-time equivalents (2,080 hours a year) so they can be compared.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.