The Trustees of Princeton University H-1B wage filings
Princeton, NJ. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
The Trustees of Princeton University filed 242 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $78,514, 24.7% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Postdoctoral Research Associate (88 filings, median $67,000).
- Filings
- 242
- Positions covered
- 230
- Certified
- 95.0%
- Job titles
- 34
- Worksite cities
- 4
- Filings since FY2020
- 1,483
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +25%
Offered wage since 2020
The Trustees of Princeton University's median H-1B wage offer rose 25%, from $61,750 in fiscal 2020 to $77,100 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 22.4% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 284 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.
The Trustees of Princeton University by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 183 | $77,100 | +3.1% | $62,941 | +22.4% |
| 2025 | 284 | $74,800 | +5.4% | $61,360 | +26.6% |
| 2024 | 215 | $71,000 | +4.4% | $58,198 | +23.7% |
| 2023 | 215 | $68,000 | +6.3% | $55,224 | +27.6% |
| 2022 | 174 | $63,940 | +4.2% | $54,652 | +19.3% |
| 2021 | 214 | $61,350 | −0.6% | $53,186 | +20.3% |
| 2020 | 198 | $61,750 | n/a | $51,563 | +16.8% |
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 Research Associate | 88 | $67,000 | +20.5% | +30% since 2020 | |
| Associate Research Scholar | 42 | $79,194 | +12.8% | +27% since 2020 | |
| Assistant Professor | 21 | $135,906 | +70.3% | +20% since 2020 | |
| Lecturer | 15 | $86,000 | +62.9% | +31% since 2020 | |
| Senior Research Specialist | 9 | $66,624 | +35.8% | +17% since 2023 | |
| Staff Research Physicist | 8 | $128,875 | +49.0% | +19% since 2022 | |
| Associate Professional Specialist | 5 | $80,000 | +28.8% | +14% since 2022 | |
| Postdoctoral Research Fellow | 5 | $71,500 | +22.4% | ||
| Professional Specialist | 5 | $99,721 | +89.4% | +40% since 2022 | |
| Research Specialist II | 5 | $58,781 | +22.2% | +22% since 2020 | |
| Associate Professor | 3 | $165,000 | +32.0% | ||
| Instructor | 3 | $113,609 | +156.6% | ||
| Research Scholar | 3 | $111,866 | +27.9% | ||
| Research Software Engineer II | 3 | $139,185 | +81.8% | ||
| Associate Research Physicist | 2 | $107,405 | +69.2% | ||
| Data Services Specialist | 2 | $89,568 | +82.0% | ||
| Instructor/Assistant Professor | 2 | $123,285 | +103.2% | ||
| Postdoctoral Research Associate/Fellow | 2 | $71,050 | +11.9% | ||
| Professor | 2 | $297,072 | +169.4% | ||
| Programmer Lead Data Scientist | 2 | $123,000 | +94.3% | ||
| Visiting Assistant Professor | 2 | $114,594 | +51.6% | ||
| Associate Engineer/Strategic Science Initiative Post-doc | 1 | $107,484 | +88.2% | ||
| Engineering Analyst/Project Engineer | 1 | $122,354 | +7.0% | ||
| Lab Manager | 1 | $60,000 | +20.9% | ||
| Postgraduate Research Associate | 1 | $65,000 | +4.1% | ||
| Research Software Engineer I | 1 | $115,000 | +33.1% | ||
| Senior Lecturer | 1 | $97,000 | +85.4% | ||
| Senior Research Assistant/Postdoctoral Research Associate | 1 | $65,690 | at the minimum | ||
| Senior Research Scholar | 1 | $130,000 | +5.8% | ||
| Senior Research Specialist I | 1 | $55,000 | +0.5% | +3% since 2020 | |
| Senior Solutions Developer | 1 | $117,023 | +23.2% | ||
| Staff Research Phyicist | 1 | $137,323 | +41.5% | ||
| Staff Research Physicists | 1 | $133,000 | +37.0% | ||
| Visiting Research Scholar | 1 | $60,000 | +4.2% | ||
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Princeton, NJ | 238 | $77,900 |
| San Diego, CA | 2 | $127,050 |
| Manhattan, KS | 1 | $74,800 |
| Santa Clara, CA | 1 | $144,000 |
By visa type: 241 H-1B, 1 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 149 certified, 81 certified and later withdrawn, 12 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 The Trustees of Princeton 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.
- 1 filing is 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.