LSU Agricultural Center H-1B wage filings

Baton Rouge, LA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

LSU Agricultural Center filed 19 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $60,000, 6.2% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Assistant Professor (8 filings, median $100,825).

Filings
19
Positions covered
19
Certified
100.0%
Job titles
5
Worksite cities
5
Filings since FY2020
127
Median offer change since FY2020
+73%

Offered wage since 2020

LSU Agricultural Center's median H-1B wage offer rose 73%, from $45,893 in fiscal 2020 to $79,223 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 6.4% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 25 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$20k$40k$60k$80k$100k$120k$46k$60k$86k$50k$58k$63k$79k122020172021182022202023192024252025162026*

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

LSU Agricultural Center by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)16$79,223+25.1%$67,761+6.4%
202525$63,342+10.2%$54,600+10.9%
202419$57,500+15.0%$52,915+11.3%
202320$50,000−41.5%$48,776+10.1%
202218$85,500+42.5%$75,660+11.0%
202117$60,000+30.7%$48,942+12.4%
202012$45,893n/a$41,923+10.4%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailingMedian since 2020
Assistant Professor8$100,825+15.3%+15% since 2021
Research Associate Specialist4$45,495+6.3%+6% since 2023
Assistant Professor - Research3$58,000+6.2%
Postdoctoral Researcher2$49,500+8.2%−9% since 2021
Postdoctoral Researcher (2-year)2$55,000+4.3%

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
Baton Rouge, LA14$59,000
St. Gabriel, LA2$40,799
Alexandria, LA1$101,650
Rayne, LA1$116,159
Winnsboro, LA1$95,000

By visa type: 19 H-1B. By outcome: 19 certified.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 20253
Oct to Dec 20255
Jan to Mar 20265
Apr to Jun 20266

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, entry32%
Level II, qualified21%
Level III, experienced37%
Level IV, fully competent11%

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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