Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory H-1B wage filings
Berkeley, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory filed 138 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $130,008, 21.1% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Computer Systems Engineer 3 (17 filings, median $181,188).
- Filings
- 138
- Positions covered
- 137
- Certified
- 99.3%
- Job titles
- 77
- Worksite cities
- 2
- Filings since FY2020
- 1,011
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +36%
Offered wage since 2020
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's median H-1B wage offer rose 36%, from $95,352 in fiscal 2020 to $129,500 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 21.1% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2021, with 167 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.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 100 | $129,500 | +18.6% | $100,027 | +21.1% |
| 2025 | 155 | $109,152 | −2.7% | $94,286 | +10.4% |
| 2024 | 161 | $112,200 | +5.2% | $89,315 | +11.4% |
| 2023 | 165 | $106,674 | −0.9% | $83,657 | +24.7% |
| 2022 | 154 | $107,640 | +12.2% | $82,098 | +14.6% |
| 2021 | 167 | $95,964 | +0.6% | $79,789 | +7.3% |
| 2020 | 109 | $95,352 | n/a | $74,928 | +10.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Systems Engineer 3 | 17 | $181,188 | +86.2% | +19% since 2022 | |
| Postdoc | 17 | $95,844 | at the minimum | +10% since 2023 | |
| Senior Research Associate | 6 | $78,704 | at the minimum | ||
| Sr Scientific Engineering Associate | 4 | $128,170 | +21.1% | ||
| Physicist Staff Scientist/Engineer | 3 | $186,000 | +47.4% | ||
| Postdoctoral Fellow | 3 | $80,256 | at the minimum | ||
| Research Scientist | 3 | $168,000 | +172.0% | ||
| Biologist Project Scientist/Engineer | 2 | $120,900 | at the minimum | ||
| Biophysicist Research Scientist/Engineer | 2 | $127,114 | +43.1% | ||
| Computational Research Scientist/Engineer | 2 | $205,608 | +111.1% | ||
| Computer Systems Engineer 4 | 2 | $221,646 | +89.6% | ||
| Controls Software Engineer | 2 | $148,500 | +29.6% | ||
| Earth Research Scientist (Energy Geosciences) | 2 | $153,446 | +22.8% | ||
| Electronics Engineer 4 | 2 | $199,524 | +58.1% | ||
| Grad Student, Research Assistant | 2 | $104,416 | +64.1% | ||
| Optics Scientific Engineering Associate | 2 | $130,008 | +7.5% | ||
| Physicist Research Scientist/Engineer | 2 | $171,570 | +51.7% | ||
| Policy Researcher II (energy analysis engineering) | 2 | $131,448 | +8.7% | ||
| Principal Research Associate (Climate and Ecosystems) | 2 | $108,000 | +71.9% | ||
| Quantum Algorithms Postdoctoral Fellow | 2 | $96,984 | at the minimum | ||
| Scientific Engineering Associate | 2 | $107,286 | +15.5% | ||
| Senior Financial Analyst | 2 | $125,484 | +20.9% | ||
| Applied Physicist Project Scientist/Engineer | 1 | $137,900 | at the minimum | ||
| Applied Physicist Research Scientist/Engineer | 1 | $161,148 | +43.2% | ||
| Applied Physicist Rsch Sci/Eng | 1 | $171,684 | +52.5% | ||
| Coastal System Modeler Postdoctoral Scholar | 1 | $82,464 | at the minimum | ||
| Computational Research Scientist (Energy Engineering) | 1 | $184,800 | +35.9% | ||
| Computer Systems Engineer - I | 1 | $104,016 | +78.9% | ||
| Computer Systems Engineer II | 1 | $132,636 | +70.6% | +13% since 2023 | |
| Computer Systems Engineer 5 | 1 | $282,384 | +141.6% | ||
| Computer Systems Manager 1 | 1 | $252,000 | +22.1% | ||
| Data Scientist | 1 | $125,580 | +25.5% | ||
| Desktop Systems Specialist 2 | 1 | $107,765 | +38.6% | ||
| Electronics Engineering Associate/Technologist | 1 | $140,004 | +90.5% | ||
| Energy/Environmental Policy Researcher 2 | 1 | $132,725 | +25.4% | ||
| Genomics Data Scientist | 1 | $109,200 | +2.3% | ||
| Geological Project Scientist | 1 | $129,500 | at the minimum | ||
| HPC System Software Engineer | 1 | $204,000 | +78.1% | ||
| IC Design Research Scientist/Engineer | 1 | $205,188 | +111.5% | ||
| Materials Faculty Scientist / Engineer | 1 | $180,918 | +63.6% | ||
Showing the 40 most-filed of 77 job titles.
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley, CA | 136 | $130,008 |
| Emeryville, CA | 2 | $88,794 |
By visa type: 138 H-1B. By outcome: 137 certified, 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 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 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.
- 13 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.