Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center H-1B wage filings

New York, NY. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center filed 231 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $85,000, 13.5% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Research Associate (31 filings, median $80,000).

Filings
231
Positions covered
229
Certified
99.1%
Job titles
70
Worksite cities
19
Filings since FY2020
1,907
Median offer change since FY2020
−4%

Offered wage since 2020

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's median H-1B wage offer fell 4%, from $88,328 in fiscal 2020 to $85,088 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 13.5% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2022, with 324 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$60k$80k$100k$120k$140k$88k$88k$77k$95k$99k$85k$85k2772020283202132420222932023298202426420251682026*

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

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)168$85,088+0.1%$74,714+13.5%
2025264$85,000−14.1%$77,709+11.4%
2024298$99,000+4.2%$80,163+14.1%
2023293$95,000+23.4%$76,877+14.9%
2022324$77,000−12.4%$70,824+11.8%
2021283$87,945−0.4%$67,413+30.6%
2020277$88,328n/a$67,038+21.7%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailingMedian since 2020
Research Associate31$80,000+8.5%+10% since 2020
Senior Research Scientist28$88,000+8.7%+2% since 2020
Research Scholar20$78,600+7.1%+23% since 2020
Clinical Fellow16$84,500+15.4%−11% since 2020
Assistant Attending9$220,000+54.6%−25% since 2022
Research Fellow9$75,000+6.5%+30% since 2020
Senior Research Technician8$66,180+2.0%+19% since 2020
Research Technician7$54,517+7.0%+3% since 2020
Senior Research Assistant7$90,000+1.6%+20% since 2023
Software Engineer II7$131,000+20.0%−11% since 2023
Resident5$77,577+5.2%
Research Assistant4$76,948+9.1%+7% since 2021
Assistant Attending L13$270,000+9.8%−12% since 2022
Assistant Member3$195,000+127.0%
Bioinformatics Technician3$83,200+1.7%
Instructor3$275,000+100.7%
Technologist II3$115,000+42.6%−3% since 2023
Associate Attending2$290,000+189.7%
Bioinformatics Software Engineer II2$112,500+60.8%
Bioinformatics Software Engineer V2$164,000+38.9%
Business Intelligence Analyst I2$100,000+25.7%
Clinical Radiotherapy Physicist III2$230,000+159.6%
Computational Biologist I2$93,500+27.4%
Data Engineer II2$179,984+50.2%
Manager, Bioinformatics2$191,367+34.7%
Member2$435,000+214.2%
Scientific Research Lead2$117,500+47.6%
Senior Genetic Counselor2$110,088+8.4%
Software Engineer I2$110,000+27.8%
Assistant Attending Dentist1$145,000+22.9%
Assistant Attending in Pathology1$245,000+32.9%
Assistant Attending Physician1$300,000+66.9%
Assistant Attending Physicist1$210,000+50.3%+15% since 2020
Assistant, Cell Manufacturing1$70,000+15.8%
Assistant Member, L11$400,000+91.3%
Bioinformatics Software Engineer I1$105,000+26.7%
Computational Biologist II1$100,000+7.0%
Data Analyst1$72,000+1.6%
Data Coordinator II, Community Outreach Research1$75,000+39.2%
Data Scientist II1$180,000+51.4%

Showing the 40 most-filed of 70 job titles.

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
New York, NY210$85,000
Middletown, NJ4$157,500
Arlington, TX1$180,000
Astoria, NY1$100,175
Clearwater, FL1$110,000
Commack, NY1$75,000
Cumming, GA1$155,000
Dallas, TX1$100,000
Erie, PA1$100,000
Irvine, CA1$155,000
Jersey City, NJ1$219,600
Leesburg, VA1$130,000

Showing the 12 busiest of 19 worksite cities.

By visa type: 221 H-1B, 10 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 207 certified, 22 certified and later withdrawn, 2 withdrawn before a decision.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 202563
Oct to Dec 202547
Jan to Mar 202670
Apr to Jun 202651

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, entry30%
Level II, qualified34%
Level III, experienced25%
Level IV, fully competent10%

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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