Northeastern University H-1B wage filings
Boston, MA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Northeastern University filed 133 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $110,070, 37.6% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Assistant Professor (30 filings, median $120,894).
- Filings
- 133
- Positions covered
- 127
- Certified
- 95.5%
- Job titles
- 41
- Worksite cities
- 14
- Filings since FY2020
- 725
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +16%
Offered wage since 2020
Northeastern University's median H-1B wage offer rose 16%, from $94,919 in fiscal 2020 to $110,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 37.6% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 123 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.
Northeastern University by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 105 | $110,000 | −1.8% | $69,805 | +37.6% |
| 2025 | 123 | $112,000 | +0.6% | $69,888 | +37.6% |
| 2024 | 100 | $111,303 | +6.0% | $63,490 | +62.5% |
| 2023 | 101 | $105,000 | +3.2% | $66,227 | +39.5% |
| 2022 | 100 | $101,737 | +8.7% | $67,122 | +28.4% |
| 2021 | 85 | $93,600 | −1.4% | $63,710 | +34.9% |
| 2020 | 111 | $94,919 | n/a | $67,080 | +23.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assistant Professor | 30 | $120,894 | +102.4% | +20% since 2020 | |
| Postdoctoral Research Associate | 12 | $65,541 | +2.5% | +21% since 2020 | |
| Assistant Teaching Professor | 10 | $131,741 | +102.0% | +39% since 2021 | |
| Part-Time Lecturer | 9 | $109,242 | +27.5% | −18% since 2020 | |
| Research Scientist | 9 | $102,315 | +2.0% | −13% since 2023 | |
| Associate Research Scientist | 7 | $86,424 | +4.6% | +27% since 2020 | |
| Associate Teaching Professor | 6 | $96,325 | +42.9% | ||
| eRA Support Specialist | 5 | $72,134 | +53.2% | ||
| Associate Professor | 4 | $154,750 | +39.1% | ||
| Geospatial Temporal Data Scientist | 4 | $100,964 | +12.5% | ||
| Lead Data Scientist | 3 | $131,325 | +33.3% | ||
| Assistant Teaching Professor and Assistant Group Chair | 2 | $141,850 | +56.7% | ||
| Group Chair and Associate Professor with Tenure | 2 | $245,100 | +62.7% | ||
| Systems and Operations Portfolio Manager | 2 | $100,502 | +8.9% | ||
| Tenured Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics | 2 | $245,000 | +16.5% | ||
| Application Administrator | 1 | $125,413 | +9.2% | ||
| Assistant Research Professor | 1 | $115,000 | +28.6% | ||
| Asst. Teaching Professor & Asst. Dir. of Fintech Initiative | 1 | $168,500 | +179.0% | ||
| Associate Director of NDIF | 1 | $150,000 | +37.6% | ||
| Associate Teaching Prof. & Program Director for Applied Math | 1 | $90,821 | +63.1% | ||
| Business Development Manager | 1 | $96,000 | +39.4% | ||
| Data & Research Analyst | 1 | $81,307 | at the minimum | ||
| Data Scientist | 1 | $96,900 | +4.9% | ||
| Global Brand Strategist | 1 | $135,000 | +70.3% | ||
| Global Instructional Design Consultant | 1 | $89,116 | +55.7% | ||
| Integration Developer | 1 | $116,183 | +150.6% | ||
| Lab Manager | 1 | $152,901 | at the minimum | ||
| Learning Design and Systems Support Specialist | 1 | $81,312 | +10.9% | ||
| Open RAN Testing and Integration Engineer | 1 | $85,000 | +14.5% | ||
| Principal Research Scientist | 1 | $123,111 | +37.8% | ||
| Professor | 1 | $241,777 | +52.2% | ||
| QA Automation Engineer | 1 | $111,303 | +115.8% | ||
| Research Access Coordinator | 1 | $80,673 | +25.1% | ||
| Research Assistant Professor | 1 | $130,729 | +51.3% | ||
| Research Technology Analyst | 1 | $71,240 | +32.2% | ||
| Senior Cloud Operations Engineer | 1 | $110,070 | +6.4% | ||
| Senior Data Analyst | 1 | $78,603 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Director of Engagement and Operations, CSL | 1 | $122,000 | +2.0% | ||
| Senior Research Scientist | 1 | $91,350 | +36.0% | ||
| Teaching Professor | 1 | $152,000 | +0.9% | ||
Showing the 40 most-filed of 41 job titles.
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Boston, MA | 109 | $115,253 |
| Portland, ME | 6 | $100,964 |
| Fort Wayne, IN | 5 | $72,134 |
| Arlington, VA | 2 | $82,888 |
| Burlington, MA | 2 | $95,077 |
| Breinigsville, PA | 1 | $111,303 |
| Franklin, MA | 1 | $89,116 |
| Fuquay-Varina, NC | 1 | $110,070 |
| Jacksonville, FL | 1 | $116,183 |
| Oakland, CA | 1 | $151,975 |
| San Jose, CA | 1 | $175,407 |
| Seattle, WA | 1 | $143,175 |
Showing the 12 busiest of 14 worksite cities.
By visa type: 133 H-1B. By outcome: 78 certified, 49 certified and later withdrawn, 6 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 Northeastern 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.
- 11 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.
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