Carnegie Mellon University H-1B wage filings
Pittsburgh, PA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Carnegie Mellon University filed 126 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $80,000, 32.7% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Postdoctoral Research Associate (28 filings, median $62,652).
- Filings
- 126
- Positions covered
- 123
- Certified
- 97.6%
- Job titles
- 47
- Worksite cities
- 5
- Filings since FY2020
- 853
- Median offer change since FY2020
- −2%
Offered wage since 2020
Carnegie Mellon University's median H-1B wage offer fell 2%, from $80,000 in fiscal 2020 to $78,035 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 30.8% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2023, with 149 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.
Carnegie Mellon University by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 95 | $78,035 | −9.8% | $58,180 | +30.8% |
| 2025 | 127 | $86,520 | +6.4% | $60,965 | +38.0% |
| 2024 | 131 | $81,354 | −1.0% | $58,060 | +43.0% |
| 2023 | 149 | $82,153 | +12.9% | $59,550 | +49.6% |
| 2022 | 132 | $72,780 | −4.3% | $58,610 | +34.6% |
| 2021 | 120 | $76,067 | −4.9% | $50,870 | +45.2% |
| 2020 | 99 | $80,000 | n/a | $48,984 | +37.7% |
Offered wage by job title
Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage
| Job title | Filings | Median offered | Offered range and prevailing wage | vs prevailing | Median since 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Postdoctoral Research Associate | 28 | $62,652 | +8.9% | +23% since 2020 | |
| Assistant Professor | 21 | $128,020 | +126.7% | +6% since 2020 | |
| Research Associate | 9 | $61,324 | +34.0% | +27% since 2020 | |
| Postdoctoral Fellow | 8 | $66,415 | +3.3% | +6% since 2023 | |
| Project Scientist | 6 | $80,145 | +9.1% | +2% since 2022 | |
| Research Scientist | 3 | $105,000 | +39.7% | ||
| Assistant Teaching Professor | 2 | $131,408 | +86.5% | ||
| CDFD Project Manager | 2 | $98,000 | +47.9% | ||
| Data Scientist | 2 | $86,441 | +68.0% | ||
| Finance and Research Administrator | 2 | $68,000 | +35.3% | ||
| Postdoctoral Associate | 2 | $75,000 | +10.6% | ||
| Postdoctoral Research Assistant | 2 | $61,008 | +14.5% | ||
| Research Biologist | 2 | $68,770 | +18.2% | ||
| Robotics Engineer II | 2 | $97,081 | +22.5% | ||
| Senior Robotics Engineer I | 2 | $129,000 | +42.6% | ||
| Staff Therapist | 2 | $78,035 | +40.2% | ||
| Assistant Professor of Business Technologies | 1 | $215,000 | +321.3% | ||
| Assistant Professor of Chemistry | 1 | $109,315 | +95.6% | ||
| Assistant Professor of Finance | 1 | $287,105 | +462.6% | ||
| Assistant Professor of Marketing and Business Technology | 1 | $230,000 | +350.7% | ||
| Associate Dean of Marketing and Enrollment, CMO | 1 | n/a | |||
| Associate Learning Engineer | 1 | $67,500 | +44.9% | ||
| Associate Research Scientist | 1 | $63,000 | +10.3% | ||
| Co-Instructor | 1 | $693,326 | +1080.4% | ||
| Director of Research for the Children's School | 1 | $90,000 | +48.2% | ||
| Director of Research for the CMU Children's School | 1 | $90,000 | +48.2% | ||
| Engineer II | 1 | $81,000 | +43.1% | ||
| Frontend Javascript Developer | 1 | $90,000 | +43.0% | ||
| Full Professor | 1 | $175,000 | +197.9% | ||
| MTS Researcher | 1 | $134,936 | +121.3% | ||
| Project Lab Manager | 1 | $75,564 | +32.3% | ||
| Project Scientist / Engineer | 1 | $93,420 | +42.3% | ||
| Robotics Engineer | 1 | $100,000 | +30.3% | ||
| Salesforce Marketing Cloud Developer | 1 | $125,660 | +70.5% | ||
| Senior Director, International Development | 1 | $135,000 | +60.5% | ||
| Senior Learning Engineer | 1 | $88,977 | +91.0% | ||
| Senior Robotics Engineer | 1 | $97,850 | +23.5% | ||
| Senior Scientist | 1 | $83,000 | +9.9% | ||
| Senior Systems Engineer | 1 | $80,000 | +33.0% | ||
| Senior Systems Software Engineer | 1 | $126,690 | +86.8% | ||
Showing the 40 most-filed of 47 job titles.
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Pittsburgh, PA | 121 | $80,000 |
| Champaign, IL | 2 | $75,000 |
| Moffett Field, CA | 1 | $144,816 |
| Northlake, TX | 1 | $125,660 |
| Silver Spring, MD | 1 | $65,998 |
By visa type: 125 H-1B, 1 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 104 certified, 19 certified and later withdrawn, 3 withdrawn before a decision.
Filings by quarter
Across all employers, filings bunch up in the first half of each year around the annual H-1B lottery, so compare a quarter with the same quarter a year earlier, not with the one before it.
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 Carnegie Mellon University 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.
- 2 filings are 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.