The Curators of the University of Missouri/University of Missouri-Columbia H-1B wage filings

Columbia, MO. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

The Curators of the University of Missouri/University of Missouri-Columbia filed 15 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $258,820, 50.3% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was General Internal Medicine Hospitalist Physician/Faculty (9 filings, median $258,820).

Filings
15
Positions covered
14
Certified
93.3%
Job titles
6
Worksite cities
1
Filings since FY2020
38
Median offer change since FY2020
+116%

Offered wage since 2020

The Curators of the University of Missouri/University of Missouri-Columbia's median H-1B wage offer rose 116%, from $120,000 in fiscal 2020 to $258,820 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 50.3% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2020, with 9 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$80k$120k$160k$200k$240k$280k$120k$122k$145k$259k920200202152022120232202462025152026*

Fiscal years run October to September. Fiscal 2026 is still running: these figures cover October 2025 to June 2026.

The Curators of the University of Missouri/University of Missouri-Columbia by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)15$258,820+78.1%$172,224+50.3%
20256$145,300n/a$92,602+56.9%
20242n/an/an/an/a
20231n/an/an/an/a
20225$122,400n/a$117,360+19.3%
20210n/an/an/an/a
20209$120,000n/a$110,316+8.8%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailing
General Internal Medicine Hospitalist Physician/Faculty9$258,820+50.3%
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine2$243,589+167.4%
Assistant Teaching Professor, Small Animal Critical1$150,000+2.8%
Assistant Teaching Professor, Small Animal Critical Care1$150,000+2.8%
Gastroenterologist/Faculty1$550,000+98.0%
Physician Assistant-Specialty Care1$115,000+33.5%

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
Columbia, MO15$258,820

By visa type: 15 H-1B. By outcome: 14 certified, 1 withdrawn before a decision.

Filings by quarter

Jan to Mar 20264
Apr to Jun 202611

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

Level I, entry7%
Level II, qualified71%
Level III, experienced21%
Level IV, fully competent0%

The government assigns each job one of four wage levels. A higher level means a higher legal minimum.

What these numbers are

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

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