North Dakota State University H-1B wage filings
Fargo, ND. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
North Dakota State University filed 67 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $66,000, 12.0% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Research Specialist (12 filings, median $57,000).
- Filings
- 67
- Positions covered
- 59
- Certified
- 88.1%
- Job titles
- 39
- Worksite cities
- 2
- Filings since FY2020
- 263
- Median offer change since FY2020
- −4%
Offered wage since 2020
North Dakota State University's median H-1B wage offer fell 4%, from $66,500 in fiscal 2020 to $64,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 9.0% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 57 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.
North Dakota State University by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 50 | $64,000 | −15.2% | $60,923 | +9.0% |
| 2025 | 57 | $75,500 | +11.0% | $58,459 | +19.1% |
| 2024 | 41 | $68,000 | +4.6% | $50,070 | +19.6% |
| 2023 | 23 | $65,000 | no change | $52,624 | +15.3% |
| 2022 | 34 | $65,000 | no change | $47,857 | +23.5% |
| 2021 | 32 | $65,000 | −2.3% | $50,690 | +29.7% |
| 2020 | 26 | $66,500 | n/a | $45,800 | +27.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Research Specialist | 12 | $57,000 | +4.4% | +10% since 2025 | |
| Research Assistant Professor | 6 | $65,000 | +0.2% | ||
| Research Scientist | 6 | $59,000 | +0.1% | ||
| Postdoctoral Research Fellow | 4 | $54,426 | +5.1% | ||
| Assistant Professor of Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering | 2 | $99,500 | +21.5% | ||
| Assistant Professor of Practice, Finance | 2 | $105,000 | +16.6% | ||
| IT Project Manager & Intern Instructor | 2 | $71,000 | +12.7% | ||
| Software Developer - Uav Ag Data | 2 | $84,000 | +23.5% | ||
| Asst. Proessor, Microbial Ecology | 1 | $85,000 | +26.8% | ||
| Asst. Prof, Applied Soil Physics & Hydrology | 1 | $90,000 | +26.2% | ||
| Asst Prof of Practice, Environmental Engineering | 1 | $78,000 | +10.5% | ||
| Asst Prof, Omics & Predictive Modeling in Plants | 1 | $98,000 | +46.6% | ||
| Assistant Professor | 1 | $100,000 | +40.0% | ||
| Assistant Professor, Accounting | 1 | $152,000 | +68.7% | ||
| Asst. Professor, Applied Soil Physics & Hydrology | 1 | $90,000 | +34.6% | ||
| Assistant Professor, Communication | 1 | $68,000 | +1.7% | ||
| Assistant Professor - Computer Engineering | 1 | $90,000 | +27.6% | ||
| Assistant Professor - Electrical and Computer Engineering | 1 | $100,000 | +40.0% | ||
| Assistant Professor, Marketing | 1 | $130,000 | +44.3% | ||
| Assistant Professor, Mathematics | 1 | $70,000 | +19.4% | ||
| Associate Professor | 1 | n/a | |||
| Cloud System Administrator, Data & Reporting | 1 | $66,000 | +1.0% | ||
| Cloud System Administrator, Voice/Zoom | 1 | n/a | |||
| Enterprise Network Administrator | 1 | $77,000 | +17.8% | ||
| Food Scientist | 1 | $71,000 | +41.2% | ||
| Food Technology Specialist | 1 | $58,000 | +22.2% | ||
| IoT SYSTEMS RESEARCH ENGINEER | 1 | $78,000 | +27.9% | ||
| Laboratory Research Engineer | 1 | $73,000 | +2.3% | ||
| Lecturer, Costume Technology | 1 | $52,900 | at the minimum | ||
| Postdoctoral Associate | 1 | $61,500 | +0.5% | ||
| Postdoctoral Fellow | 1 | $50,000 | +0.5% | ||
| Project Manager | 1 | $62,000 | +2.3% | ||
| Research Agronomist | 1 | $104,000 | +87.5% | ||
| Research Asst Professor - Meat Sciences | 1 | $95,000 | +90.9% | ||
| Research Data Analyst | 1 | $50,000 | +23.3% | ||
| Research Laboratory Manager | 1 | $52,000 | +13.1% | ||
| Senior Research Economist | 1 | $90,000 | +38.8% | ||
| Traffic Safety Research Fellow | 1 | $66,000 | +13.5% | ||
| Voice/Zoom Cloud System Administrator | 1 | $68,000 | +4.0% | ||
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Fargo, ND | 66 | $65,500 |
| Minot, ND | 1 | $104,000 |
By visa type: 67 H-1B. By outcome: 41 certified, 18 certified and later withdrawn, 8 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 North Dakota 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.