Regents of the University of Minnesota H-1B wage filings

Austin, MN. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

Regents of the University of Minnesota filed 11 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $78,000, 62.5% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Post-Doctoral Associate (3 filings, median $70,344).

Filings
11
Positions covered
11
Certified
100.0%
Job titles
9
Worksite cities
2
Filings since FY2021
36
Median offer change since FY2025
+24%

Offered wage since 2021

Regents of the University of Minnesota's median H-1B wage offer rose 24%, from $66,492 in fiscal 2025 to $82,130 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 56.3% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 18 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$0k$100k$200k$300k$160k$66k$66k$82k1202122022320234202418202582026*

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

Regents of the University of Minnesota by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)8$82,130+23.5%$56,472+56.3%
202518$66,492+1.3%$52,895+28.9%
20244$65,656−59.0%$52,167+23.4%
20233$159,994n/a$88,421+29.4%
20222n/an/an/an/a
20211n/an/an/an/a

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailing
Post-Doctoral Associate3$70,344+62.5%
Assistant Professor1$119,330+83.7%
Bioinformatics & Data Science Specialist1$74,006+21.4%
Finance Professional 11$62,171at the minimum
Flow Cytometry Specialist1$78,000+50.1%
IT Pro 3-Data Engineering (Senior Data Engineer)1$129,804+30.6%
Research Professional 5- Biomedical Research1$86,260+66.0%
Research Professional 5 - Genetics/Cell Biology1$93,060+79.0%
Research Professional 51$86,270+63.5%

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
Austin, MN10$76,003
Minneapolis, MN1$129,804

By visa type: 11 H-1B. By outcome: 10 certified, 1 certified and later withdrawn.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 20253
Oct to Dec 20254
Jan to Mar 20263
Apr to Jun 20261

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, entry64%
Level II, qualified27%
Level III, experienced9%
Level IV, fully competent0%

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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