University of California, San Diego H-1B wage filings
La Jolla, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
University of California, San Diego filed 316 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. 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 Employee (86 filings, median $74,425).
- Filings
- 316
- Positions covered
- 302
- Certified
- 95.6%
- Job titles
- 40
- Worksite cities
- 6
- Filings since FY2020
- 1,408
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +33%
Offered wage since 2020
University of California, San Diego's median H-1B wage offer rose 33%, from $64,000 in fiscal 2020 to $85,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 264 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, San Diego by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 232 | $85,000 | +5.0% | $80,725 | at the minimum |
| 2025 | 264 | $80,965 | +2.1% | $78,000 | at the minimum |
| 2024 | 241 | $79,300 | +5.3% | $73,019 | at the minimum |
| 2023 | 211 | $75,300 | +13.1% | $68,794 | at the minimum |
| 2022 | 222 | $66,600 | +0.6% | $64,750 | at the minimum |
| 2021 | 132 | $66,220 | +3.5% | $64,008 | at the minimum |
| 2020 | 106 | $64,000 | n/a | $63,693 | at the minimum |
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 Employee | 86 | $74,425 | at the minimum | +26% since 2020 | |
| Assistant Project Scientist | 72 | $85,000 | at the minimum | +33% since 2020 | |
| Staff Research Associate III | 34 | $77,804 | at the minimum | +32% since 2020 | |
| Assistant Professor | 25 | $141,100 | +52.4% | +42% since 2020 | |
| Staff Research Associate IV | 17 | $80,656 | at the minimum | +17% since 2023 | |
| Assistant Adjunct Professor | 6 | $117,850 | +24.0% | ||
| Associate Project Scientist | 6 | $93,300 | at the minimum | ||
| Assistant Research Scientist | 5 | $122,700 | at the minimum | ||
| Research & Development Engineer 3 | 5 | $92,000 | +7.7% | ||
| Assistant Teaching Professor (LPSOE) | 4 | $133,950 | +62.2% | ||
| Computational and Data Science Research P4 | 4 | $126,588 | +55.8% | ||
| Lecturer | 4 | $92,975 | at the minimum | ||
| Associate Physician Diplomate | 3 | $200,000 | +24.4% | ||
| Bioinformatics Programmer 3 | 3 | $98,184 | +23.3% | ||
| Computational and Data Science Research P3 | 3 | $101,508 | +29.7% | ||
| Field Researcher 3 | 3 | $72,012 | +85.0% | ||
| Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor | 3 | $285,000 | +124.7% | ||
| Research Data Analyst 3 | 3 | $92,000 | +42.1% | +14% since 2022 | |
| Research Data Analyst P3 | 3 | $95,640 | +68.6% | ||
| Assistant Research Scientist/Educator | 2 | $134,300 | +32.1% | ||
| Associate Physician | 2 | $236,000 | +24.7% | ||
| Associate Professor | 2 | $136,550 | +52.9% | ||
| Computational and Data Science Research Specialist 3 | 2 | $110,408 | +74.3% | ||
| Field Researcher 2 | 2 | $63,225 | +26.3% | ||
| Research Data Analyst P4 | 2 | $112,590 | +48.7% | ||
| Assistant Clinical Professor | 1 | $221,000 | +125.4% | ||
| Assistant Coach (Coach Ast 3) | 1 | $80,000 | +110.9% | ||
| ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR/ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN RESIDENCEoflc | 1 | $225,000 | +92.9% | ||
| Bioinformatics Programmer P3 | 1 | $93,820 | +49.1% | ||
| Computational and Data Science Research Specialist 4 | 1 | $120,564 | at the minimum | ||
| Computational and Data Science Researcher 3 | 1 | $95,000 | +27.7% | ||
| Lab Research Supervisor 1 | 1 | $104,208 | +1.5% | ||
| Lecturer (LPSOE) | 1 | $159,400 | +132.3% | ||
| Organizational Consultant 3 | 1 | $97,884 | +29.5% | ||
| Pediatric Pathologist | 1 | $280,000 | +17.1% | ||
| Professor | 1 | $165,000 | +88.3% | ||
| Research Administrator 3 | 1 | $90,300 | +12.9% | ||
| Research and Development Engineer P3 | 1 | $115,167 | +34.9% | ||
| Research Data Analyst 4 | 1 | $105,456 | +56.7% | ||
| Visiting Associate Professor | 1 | $79,900 | +0.1% | ||
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| La Jolla, CA | 299 | $82,836 |
| San Diego, CA | 13 | $100,450 |
| Bronx, NY | 1 | $66,461 |
| El Centro, CA | 1 | $371,000 |
| Golden, CO | 1 | $115,167 |
| Laguna Beach, CA | 1 | $209,500 |
By visa type: 313 H-1B, 3 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 140 certified, 162 certified and later withdrawn, 14 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, San Diego 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.
- 2 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.