UChicago Argonne, LLC H-1B wage filings
Lemont, IL. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
UChicago Argonne, LLC filed 127 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $90,063, 18.2% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Postdoctoral Appointee (43 filings, median $70,758).
- Filings
- 127
- Positions covered
- 127
- Certified
- 100.0%
- Job titles
- 48
- Worksite cities
- 1
- Filings since FY2020
- 727
- Median offer change since FY2020
- −8%
Offered wage since 2020
UChicago Argonne, LLC's median H-1B wage offer fell 8%, from $97,850 in fiscal 2020 to $90,063 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 18.2% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 134 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.
UChicago Argonne, LLC by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 84 | $90,063 | no change | $76,190 | +18.2% |
| 2025 | 134 | $90,063 | +7.1% | $70,803 | +24.5% |
| 2024 | 108 | $84,094 | +2.0% | $72,363 | +13.4% |
| 2023 | 114 | $82,451 | +3.0% | $71,552 | +8.4% |
| 2022 | 93 | $80,059 | −1.1% | $70,907 | +9.5% |
| 2021 | 91 | $80,978 | −17.2% | $72,218 | +15.2% |
| 2020 | 103 | $97,850 | n/a | $69,514 | +40.8% |
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 Appointee | 43 | $70,758 | +13.4% | +2% since 2020 | |
| Assistant Computational Scientist | 6 | $90,063 | +12.7% | +9% since 2023 | |
| Nuclear Engineer | 6 | $94,486 | +22.1% | −11% since 2020 | |
| Assistant Computer Scientist | 5 | $94,486 | +18.2% | −1% since 2024 | |
| Energy Systems Analyst | 5 | $94,827 | +14.5% | +5% since 2023 | |
| Materials Scientist | 4 | $109,922 | +27.1% | ||
| Predoctoral Appointee | 4 | $65,396 | at the minimum | ||
| Assistant Beamline Scientist | 3 | $99,362 | at the minimum | ||
| Assistant Physicist | 2 | $99,362 | at the minimum | −9% since 2020 | |
| Assistant Software Engineer | 2 | $87,210 | +9.1% | ||
| Associate Energy Systems Analyst | 2 | $94,486 | +22.1% | ||
| Computational Scientist | 2 | $81,276 | +18.7% | ||
| Computational Transportation Engineer | 2 | $99,993 | +86.2% | ||
| Control System Engineer Specialist | 2 | $92,361 | +25.1% | ||
| Mechanical Engineer | 2 | $102,211 | +9.1% | ||
| Physicist | 2 | $121,618 | at the minimum | ||
| Research Scientist | 2 | $99,993 | +31.2% | ||
| Senior Scientific Associate | 2 | $92,275 | +28.7% | ||
| Systems Analysis Engineer | 2 | $90,063 | +18.2% | ||
| Assistant Chemist | 1 | $84,094 | +83.4% | ||
| Assistant Computational Mathematician | 1 | $90,063 | +96.4% | ||
| Assistant Hydrogeologist | 1 | $94,486 | +33.3% | ||
| Assistant Scientist | 1 | $84,094 | +44.5% | ||
| Assistant Structural and Molecular Biologist | 1 | $90,063 | +39.2% | ||
| Associate Computation Transportation Engineer | 1 | $94,486 | +83.5% | ||
| Associate Computational Scientist | 1 | $94,486 | +18.2% | ||
| Associate Energy Systems Scientist | 1 | $94,486 | +38.8% | ||
| Associate Research Scientist | 1 | $94,486 | +24.0% | ||
| Building Scientist | 1 | $90,063 | +1.8% | ||
| Computer Scientist | 1 | $96,990 | +2.2% | ||
| Energy Scientist | 1 | $90,063 | +28.0% | ||
| Energy Systems Engineer | 1 | $116,250 | +47.9% | ||
| Energy Systems Life Cycle Analysis | 1 | $116,250 | +22.6% | ||
| Energy Systems Scientist | 1 | $116,250 | +46.2% | ||
| Financial Business Analyst | 1 | $78,853 | at the minimum | ||
| Fuel/Chemical Production Technology Assessment | 1 | $90,063 | +37.7% | ||
| Materials Engineer | 1 | $90,043 | +33.3% | ||
| Microfabrication Technologist | 1 | $78,520 | at the minimum | ||
| Performance Engineer | 1 | $94,486 | +18.2% | ||
| Photon Beam Diagnostic Scientist/Engineer | 1 | $116,250 | +17.0% | ||
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lemont, IL | 127 | $90,063 |
By visa type: 127 H-1B. By outcome: 93 certified, 34 certified and later withdrawn.
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 UChicago Argonne, LLC 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.