Montana State University H-1B wage filings
Bozeman, MT. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Montana State University filed 24 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $77,400, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the same jobs.
- Filings
- 24
- Positions covered
- 23
- Certified
- 95.8%
- Job titles
- 22
- Worksite cities
- 5
- Filings since FY2020
- 166
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +39%
Offered wage since 2020
Montana State University's median H-1B wage offer rose 39%, from $55,643 in fiscal 2020 to $77,548 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 11.6% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2021, with 30 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.
Montana State University by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 19 | $77,548 | +18.6% | $68,207 | +11.6% |
| 2025 | 27 | $65,395 | +15.7% | $65,395 | at the minimum |
| 2024 | 20 | $56,520 | −17.5% | $56,520 | at the minimum |
| 2023 | 27 | $68,513 | +31.9% | $61,330 | at the minimum |
| 2022 | 28 | $51,938 | +18.3% | $51,346 | at the minimum |
| 2021 | 30 | $43,909 | −21.1% | $43,909 | at the minimum |
| 2020 | 15 | $55,643 | n/a | $55,643 | at the minimum |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assistant Professor | 2 | $106,065 | +17.6% | |
| Assistant Professor - Civil Engineering | 2 | $1,062,240 | +1100.0% | |
| Assistant Professor, Cropping Systems Agronomist | 1 | $54,230 | at the minimum | |
| Assistant Professor, Finance | 1 | $138,580 | +106.3% | |
| Asst Professor Human Dev & Family Science | 1 | $76,000 | +52.6% | |
| Assistant Professor - Human Development and Family Science | 1 | $67,007 | at the minimum | |
| Assistant Professor of Agricultural Process Engineering | 1 | $77,400 | at the minimum | |
| Assistant Professor of Agronomy | 1 | $72,727 | at the minimum | |
| Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering | 1 | $88,520 | at the minimum | |
| Assistant Professor of Horticulture / Plant Biology | 1 | $80,000 | +3.4% | |
| Assistant Professor of Political Science | 1 | $74,620 | +7.7% | |
| Assistant Professor of Psychology | 1 | $79,950 | +15.5% | |
| Assistant Professor of Remote Sensing | 1 | $83,148 | +48.3% | |
| Assistant Professor of Sociology | 1 | $77,695 | +100.6% | |
| Assistant Professor of Soil and Environmental Chemistry | 1 | $77,400 | at the minimum | |
| Assistant Professor of Statistics | 1 | $85,747 | +16.3% | |
| Assistant Professor, Weed Science | 1 | $71,340 | at the minimum | |
| County Extension Agent | 1 | $43,410 | at the minimum | |
| Data Systems Manager I | 1 | $56,826 | at the minimum | |
| Instructor | 1 | $63,627 | at the minimum | |
| Postdoctoral Researcher | 1 | $60,000 | +19.4% | |
| Research Associate - Pulse Crop Breeding | 1 | $43,202 | at the minimum | |
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Bozeman, MT | 20 | $77,695 |
| Conrad, MT | 1 | $72,727 |
| Culbertson, MT | 1 | $43,410 |
| Havre, MT | 1 | $54,230 |
| Huntley, MT | 1 | $71,340 |
By visa type: 24 H-1B. By outcome: 23 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 Montana State University 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.