University of California at Santa Barbara H-1B wage filings
Santa Barbara, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026. Also filed as University of California, Santa Barbara.
University of California at Santa Barbara filed 109 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026, covering 111 positions. The median wage it offered was $82,836, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Postdoctoral Scholar (45 filings, median $74,281).
- Filings
- 109
- Positions covered
- 111
- Certified
- 100.0%
- Job titles
- 23
- Worksite cities
- 4
- Filings since FY2020
- 576
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +14%
Offered wage since 2020
University of California at Santa Barbara's median H-1B wage offer rose 14%, from $71,268 in fiscal 2020 to $81,150 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 97 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.
University of California at Santa Barbara by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 82 | $81,150 | −9.9% | $79,783 | at the minimum |
| 2025 | 97 | $90,065 | +16.4% | $77,217 | +2.8% |
| 2024 | 68 | $77,400 | +3.1% | $74,685 | at the minimum |
| 2023 | 78 | $75,100 | +7.0% | $74,569 | at the minimum |
| 2022 | 84 | $70,200 | +2.5% | $67,835 | at the minimum |
| 2021 | 81 | $68,500 | −3.9% | $63,800 | at the minimum |
| 2020 | 86 | $71,268 | n/a | $59,580 | +5.8% |
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 Scholar | 45 | $74,281 | at the minimum | +23% since 2020 | |
| Assistant Professor | 17 | $122,600 | +27.1% | +17% since 2020 | |
| Project Scientist | 9 | $85,200 | at the minimum | +21% since 2022 | |
| Lecturer | 7 | $75,301 | at the minimum | −6% since 2020 | |
| Associate Specialist | 4 | $82,285 | at the minimum | ||
| Professor | 4 | $174,050 | +57.1% | ||
| Specialist | 3 | $103,688 | at the minimum | ||
| Applications Programmer | 2 | $98,796 | +22.3% | ||
| Assistant Project Scientist | 2 | $83,600 | at the minimum | +0% since 2020 | |
| Data Engineer | 2 | $145,000 | +56.6% | ||
| Staff Research Associate | 2 | $90,231 | at the minimum | ||
| Academic Coordinator | 1 | $70,000 | +4.1% | ||
| Computational and Data Science Research Specialist | 1 | $114,012 | +34.1% | ||
| Counseling Psychologist | 1 | $107,522 | +43.8% | ||
| Director of Operations- Women's Basketball | 1 | $63,663 | +16.2% | ||
| Full Professor | 1 | $200,000 | +197.9% | ||
| Junior Specialist | 1 | $58,000 | at the minimum | ||
| Planner | 1 | $115,584 | +35.2% | ||
| Postdoctoral Scholar Employee | 1 | $133,416 | +61.1% | +10% since 2020 | |
| Professional Researcher | 1 | $319,300 | +401.7% | ||
| Staff Research Assistant | 1 | $83,883 | at the minimum | ||
| Staff Research Associate III | 1 | $94,889 | at the minimum | ||
| Trainer | 1 | $86,070 | +18.1% | ||
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Santa Barbara, CA | 106 | $82,757 |
| Batavia, IL | 1 | $133,416 |
| Mammoth Lakes, CA | 1 | $83,883 |
| Ventura, CA | 1 | $145,000 |
By visa type: 107 H-1B, 2 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 69 certified, 40 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 University of California at Santa Barbara 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.
- 9 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.