University of California, Los Angeles H-1B wage filings
Los Angeles, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
University of California, Los Angeles filed 271 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $95,241, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Postdoctoral Scholar (54 filings, median $74,425).
- Filings
- 271
- Positions covered
- 264
- Certified
- 97.4%
- Job titles
- 73
- Worksite cities
- 6
- Filings since FY2020
- 1,416
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +26%
Offered wage since 2020
University of California, Los Angeles's median H-1B wage offer rose 26%, from $77,979 in fiscal 2020 to $98,388 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 269 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, Los Angeles by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 192 | $98,388 | +9.2% | $82,900 | at the minimum |
| 2025 | 269 | $90,100 | +4.2% | $77,805 | at the minimum |
| 2024 | 215 | $86,500 | +1.1% | $75,300 | at the minimum |
| 2023 | 214 | $85,571 | −6.0% | $72,000 | at the minimum |
| 2022 | 183 | $91,000 | +15.6% | $75,140 | +1.6% |
| 2021 | 167 | $78,700 | +0.9% | $70,000 | at the minimum |
| 2020 | 176 | $77,979 | n/a | $67,300 | +3.4% |
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 | 54 | $74,425 | at the minimum | +28% since 2020 | |
| Assistant Project Scientist | 38 | $85,000 | at the minimum | +33% since 2020 | |
| Assistant Professor | 21 | $144,750 | +97.6% | +36% since 2020 | |
| Health Sciences Clinical Instructor | 10 | $92,683 | +44.1% | −1% since 2023 | |
| Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor | 9 | $187,027 | +190.7% | −34% since 2025 | |
| Applications Programmer | 7 | $142,284 | +39.8% | +21% since 2023 | |
| Staff Research Associate | 7 | $64,561 | at the minimum | +18% since 2020 | |
| Assistant Researcher | 6 | $102,850 | at the minimum | +27% since 2021 | |
| Data Scientist | 6 | $96,738 | +7.0% | ||
| Research and Development Engineer | 6 | $116,500 | at the minimum | ||
| Resident Physician | 6 | $89,261 | at the minimum | −7% since 2020 | |
| Associate Project Scientist | 5 | $93,300 | at the minimum | +8% since 2023 | |
| Business Systems Analyst | 5 | $155,004 | +47.5% | −28% since 2022 | |
| Business Intelligence Developer | 4 | $154,800 | +38.3% | ||
| Communications and Network Technical Analyst | 4 | $161,747 | +11.0% | ||
| Research Data Analyst | 4 | $150,564 | +65.8% | ||
| Adjunct Assistant Professor | 3 | $135,000 | +109.9% | ||
| Assistant Adjunct Professor | 3 | $121,900 | +89.5% | ||
| Information Systems Analyst | 3 | $166,932 | +33.4% | +15% since 2022 | |
| Institutional Research Analyst | 3 | $172,068 | +94.1% | ||
| Materials Management Healthcare Specialist | 3 | $112,091 | +10.7% | ||
| Assistant Professor of Teaching | 2 | $128,550 | +62.2% | ||
| Associate Professor | 2 | $169,500 | +125.3% | ||
| Bioinformatics Programmer | 2 | $126,174 | +77.9% | ||
| Clinical Nurse | 2 | $137,373 | at the minimum | ||
| Clinical Research Coordinator | 2 | $75,273 | at the minimum | ||
| Data Engineer | 2 | $155,671 | +21.7% | ||
| Professor | 2 | $291,900 | +194.0% | ||
| Program Manager | 2 | $98,430 | +2.9% | ||
| Project Policy Analyst | 2 | $98,390 | +26.1% | ||
| Project Scientist | 2 | $111,600 | at the minimum | ||
| Survey Researcher | 2 | $80,752 | +32.8% | ||
| Systems Integration Engineer | 2 | $160,423 | +23.8% | ||
| Acting Professor | 1 | $223,100 | +121.0% | ||
| Application Technical Lead | 1 | $180,194 | +45.5% | ||
| Applications Developer | 1 | $113,520 | +31.1% | ||
| Assistant Specialist | 1 | $100,000 | at the minimum | ||
| Associate Librarian | 1 | $83,009 | at the minimum | ||
| Business Intelligence Analyst | 1 | $153,092 | +123.2% | ||
| Business Intelligence Specialist | 1 | $207,150 | +85.0% | ||
Showing the 40 most-filed of 73 job titles.
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, CA | 259 | $93,350 |
| Oakland, CA | 6 | $175,470 |
| Riverside, CA | 3 | $183,120 |
| Baltimore, MD | 1 | $92,880 |
| Santa Monica, CA | 1 | $131,488 |
| Westwood Plaza, CA | 1 | $112,091 |
By visa type: 268 H-1B, 2 E-3 (Australia), 1 H-1B1 (Chile). By outcome: 222 certified, 42 certified and later withdrawn, 7 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 University of California, Los Angeles 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.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.