Northwestern University H-1B wage filings
Evanston, IL. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Northwestern University filed 349 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $71,532, 17.9% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Postdoctoral Scholar (97 filings, median $65,520).
- Filings
- 349
- Positions covered
- 319
- Certified
- 91.4%
- Job titles
- 48
- Worksite cities
- 5
- Filings since FY2020
- 1,774
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +24%
Offered wage since 2020
Northwestern University's median H-1B wage offer rose 24%, from $57,000 in fiscal 2020 to $70,482 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 17.3% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 314 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.
Northwestern University by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 279 | $70,482 | −0.6% | $59,883 | +17.3% |
| 2025 | 314 | $70,936 | +1.3% | $56,368 | +31.3% |
| 2024 | 287 | $70,000 | +3.9% | $58,885 | +27.7% |
| 2023 | 268 | $67,382 | +3.7% | $55,349 | +19.4% |
| 2022 | 284 | $65,000 | no change | $55,349 | +17.4% |
| 2021 | 185 | $65,000 | +14.0% | $54,330 | +15.5% |
| 2020 | 157 | $57,000 | n/a | $48,859 | +15.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Postdoctoral Scholar | 97 | $65,520 | +8.7% | +17% since 2021 | |
| Research Associate | 75 | $70,008 | +7.8% | +14% since 2020 | |
| Research Assistant Professor | 33 | $83,366 | +25.1% | +1% since 2020 | |
| Assistant Professor | 28 | $138,000 | +159.8% | −14% since 2020 | |
| Assistant Professor of Instruction | 13 | $72,000 | +35.5% | −0% since 2022 | |
| Research Specialist | 10 | $64,356 | +52.7% | −4% since 2024 | |
| Postdoctoral Fellow | 9 | $62,799 | +9.9% | +21% since 2020 | |
| Research Technologist 2 | 9 | $46,980 | +50.9% | +3% since 2022 | |
| Clinical Research Associate | 8 | $70,141 | +4.8% | +0% since 2021 | |
| Data Analyst | 6 | $67,940 | +14.2% | ||
| Research Data Analyst | 6 | $78,454 | +13.2% | +24% since 2020 | |
| Associate Professor | 4 | $154,873 | +66.0% | ||
| Research Data Analyst Associate | 4 | $65,000 | +5.7% | ||
| Bioinformatics Analyst | 3 | $82,400 | +27.7% | ||
| Data Scientist | 3 | $107,625 | +65.7% | ||
| Research Project Manager | 3 | $80,000 | +33.5% | ||
| Statistical Analyst | 3 | $88,359 | +50.2% | +19% since 2021 | |
| Associate Professor of Instruction | 2 | $74,500 | +89.7% | ||
| Developer | 2 | $93,204 | +47.4% | ||
| Research Data Analyst Senior | 2 | $91,146 | +0.5% | ||
| Software Engineer | 2 | $92,700 | +31.3% | ||
| Adjunct Associate Professor | 1 | $115,565 | +95.7% | ||
| Assistant Professor of Law, Associate Professor | 1 | $216,000 | +387.9% | ||
| Assistant Professor of Research | 1 | $135,000 | +139.5% | ||
| Associate Computational Specialist | 1 | $80,340 | +31.8% | ||
| Associate Director | 1 | $90,000 | +51.8% | ||
| Asssiatnt Professor of Instruction | 1 | n/a | |||
| Boas Assistant Professor of Mathematics | 1 | $73,000 | +46.8% | ||
| Clinical Research Coordinator | 1 | $68,182 | +6.6% | ||
| College Fellow, Assistant Professor | 1 | $122,500 | +118.0% | ||
| Developer Senior | 1 | $113,000 | +35.6% | ||
| Feinberg Fellow (Postdoctoral Scholar) | 1 | $75,000 | +27.3% | ||
| Instructional Fellow/Lecturer | 1 | $50,000 | +5.6% | ||
| Lead Economist | 1 | $115,000 | +60.1% | ||
| Medical Lab Supervisor 2 | 1 | $102,086 | at the minimum | ||
| Professor | 1 | $239,000 | +420.4% | ||
| Project Coordinator | 1 | $60,000 | +117.4% | ||
| Public Humanities Teaching Fellow | 1 | $66,000 | +106.8% | ||
| Research Associate Professor | 1 | $110,000 | +45.4% | ||
| Research Engineer II | 1 | $90,183 | +27.0% | ||
Showing the 40 most-filed of 48 job titles.
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Chicago, IL | 182 | $69,482 |
| Evanston, IL | 164 | $75,000 |
| Atlanta, GA | 1 | $60,000 |
| Brooklyn, NY | 1 | $91,146 |
| San Diego, CA | 1 | $56,484 |
By visa type: 345 H-1B, 3 E-3 (Australia), 1 H-1B1 (Singapore). By outcome: 223 certified, 96 certified and later withdrawn, 30 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 Northwestern 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.
- 3 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.