Columbia University H-1B wage filings
New York, NY. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Columbia University filed 350 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $81,689, 5.2% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Associate Research Scientist (123 filings, median $80,500).
- Filings
- 350
- Positions covered
- 338
- Certified
- 96.6%
- Job titles
- 45
- Worksite cities
- 4
- Filings since FY2020
- 2,233
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +19%
Offered wage since 2020
Columbia University's median H-1B wage offer rose 19%, from $68,812 in fiscal 2020 to $81,869 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 5.7% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 412 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.
Columbia University by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 256 | $81,869 | +0.6% | $79,327 | +5.7% |
| 2025 | 412 | $81,370 | +4.3% | $77,355 | +7.9% |
| 2024 | 335 | $78,000 | +6.8% | $71,050 | +4.7% |
| 2023 | 336 | $73,008 | +2.8% | $66,100 | +9.2% |
| 2022 | 379 | $71,027 | +4.4% | $66,100 | +3.7% |
| 2021 | 289 | $68,042 | −1.1% | $66,100 | +2.5% |
| 2020 | 226 | $68,812 | n/a | $62,400 | +11.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Associate Research Scientist | 123 | $80,500 | +1.5% | +24% since 2020 | |
| Postdoctoral Research Scientist | 69 | $74,263 | at the minimum | +32% since 2020 | |
| Assistant Professor | 44 | $185,400 | +98.3% | +102% since 2020 | |
| Instructor | 11 | $97,797 | +33.2% | +3% since 2021 | |
| Staff Associate I | 10 | $65,380 | +5.1% | +8% since 2023 | |
| Staff Associate II | 10 | $81,697 | +4.1% | +27% since 2023 | |
| Associate Research Scholar | 8 | $81,706 | +3.0% | −1% since 2020 | |
| Lecturer in Discipline | 7 | $80,000 | +16.9% | +48% since 2022 | |
| Staff Associate III | 7 | $78,935 | +8.6% | +5% since 2023 | |
| Staff Associate | 6 | $66,050 | +20.0% | +3% since 2020 | |
| Associate Professor | 5 | $185,400 | +106.2% | −67% since 2022 | |
| Lecturer in Chinese | 4 | $80,900 | +37.2% | ||
| Senior Staff Associate | 4 | $90,935 | +17.9% | +51% since 2020 | |
| Assistant in Clinical | 3 | $141,200 | +68.4% | +0% since 2021 | |
| Postdoctoral Research Scholar | 3 | $79,583 | +3.0% | ||
| Professor | 3 | $400,000 | +271.5% | ||
| Assistant Professor of Computer Science | 2 | $142,000 | +53.5% | ||
| Data Engineer | 2 | $105,971 | +22.1% | ||
| Lecturer in Arabic Language | 2 | $81,800 | +38.7% | ||
| Media Research Fellow | 2 | n/a | |||
| Assistant Clinical Neurologist | 1 | $280,000 | +191.9% | ||
| Assistant Professor of Climate Finance | 1 | $118,000 | +0.1% | ||
| Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering | 1 | $140,000 | +36.3% | ||
| Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering | 1 | $125,000 | +21.7% | ||
| Associate in Radiology | 1 | $159,650 | +58.1% | ||
| Associate in Radiology (Physics) | 1 | $180,000 | +85.4% | ||
| Director of Science Communications and Media Relations | 1 | $135,051 | +39.0% | ||
| Director, Sustainability Analytics | 1 | $148,554 | +77.4% | ||
| Grants Finance Manager | 1 | $116,771 | at the minimum | ||
| Laboratory Manager | 1 | $78,795 | +10.5% | ||
| Lead Application Systems Administrator | 1 | $152,445 | +41.7% | ||
| Lecturer | 1 | $78,380 | +12.6% | ||
| Lecturer in the Discipline of Economics | 1 | $125,000 | +6.1% | ||
| Postdoctor Research Scientist | 1 | $73,750 | +5.4% | ||
| Program Manager | 1 | $90,813 | +17.7% | ||
| Project Manager | 1 | $79,178 | +29.6% | ||
| Research Physical Therapist | 1 | $85,904 | at the minimum | ||
| Research Program Manger | 1 | $100,000 | +5.6% | ||
| Research Support and Data Services Librarian | 1 | $82,130 | +4.4% | ||
| Sr. Bioinformatics Analyst & Systems Administrator | 1 | $104,374 | at the minimum | ||
Showing the 40 most-filed of 45 job titles.
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| New York, NY | 342 | $81,698 |
| Palisades, NY | 5 | $74,263 |
| Irvington, NY | 2 | $91,909 |
| Herndon, VA | 1 | $116,771 |
By visa type: 344 H-1B, 6 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 228 certified, 110 certified and later withdrawn, 12 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 Columbia 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.
- 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.
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