Howard Hughes Medical Institute H-1B wage filings
Chevy Chase, MD. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute filed 143 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026, covering 170 positions. The median wage it offered was $83,513, 21.9% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Postdoctoral Scientist (77 filings, median $81,000).
- Filings
- 143
- Positions covered
- 170
- Certified
- 99.3%
- Job titles
- 16
- Worksite cities
- 30
- Filings since FY2020
- 927
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +31%
Offered wage since 2020
Howard Hughes Medical Institute's median H-1B wage offer rose 31%, from $63,600 in fiscal 2020 to $83,513 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 18.5% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2022, with 160 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.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 100 | $83,513 | +2.9% | $70,886 | +18.5% |
| 2025 | 135 | $81,149 | +0.1% | $63,482 | +30.8% |
| 2024 | 135 | $81,080 | +8.6% | $61,048 | +33.1% |
| 2023 | 134 | $74,632 | +9.8% | $58,178 | +31.0% |
| 2022 | 160 | $68,000 | +4.6% | $56,597 | +21.6% |
| 2021 | 136 | $65,000 | +2.2% | $55,453 | +20.6% |
| 2020 | 127 | $63,600 | n/a | $54,704 | +19.3% |
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 Scientist | 77 | $81,000 | +19.8% | +3% since 2025 | |
| Research Specialist | 30 | $87,556 | +19.1% | +35% since 2020 | |
| Research Specialist II | 11 | $93,273 | +23.0% | −3% since 2020 | |
| Research Specialist I | 4 | $90,000 | +40.9% | ||
| Principal Investigator | 3 | $214,352 | +92.8% | ||
| Research Associate | 3 | $72,789 | +40.1% | +22% since 2020 | |
| Research Scientist | 3 | $63,856 | at the minimum | ||
| Postdoctoral Associate | 2 | $84,093 | +16.4% | +3% since 2023 | |
| Software Engineer | 2 | $120,699 | +3.4% | ||
| Theory Fellow | 2 | $105,984 | +66.0% | ||
| Bioinformatics Specialist | 1 | $114,287 | +79.0% | ||
| Group Leader | 1 | $202,660 | +141.6% | ||
| Research Specialsit | 1 | $89,400 | +5.8% | ||
| Senior Scientist | 1 | $146,465 | +98.3% | ||
| Senior Software Engineer | 1 | $148,695 | +37.0% | ||
| Staff Scientist & CryoEM Acquisition Lead | 1 | $123,333 | +67.0% | ||
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Ashburn, VA | 34 | $83,513 |
| New York, NY | 16 | $87,965 |
| Dallas, TX | 13 | $78,786 |
| Boston, MA | 10 | $78,533 |
| Seattle, WA | 10 | $87,556 |
| Stanford, CA | 7 | $85,384 |
| Berkeley, CA | 6 | $83,192 |
| Cambridge, MA | 6 | $82,292 |
| Princeton, NJ | 5 | $92,456 |
| Durham, NC | 4 | $76,500 |
| Bloomington, IN | 3 | $80,000 |
| New Haven, CT | 3 | $88,305 |
Showing the 12 busiest of 30 worksite cities.
By visa type: 142 H-1B, 1 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 130 certified, 12 certified and later withdrawn, 1 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 Howard Hughes Medical Institute 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.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.