University of California, San Francisco H-1B wage filings
San Francisco, CA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
University of California, San Francisco filed 363 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $89,000, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Postdoctoral Scholar (115 filings, median $77,030).
- Filings
- 363
- Positions covered
- 352
- Certified
- 97.0%
- Job titles
- 65
- Worksite cities
- 4
- Filings since FY2020
- 2,140
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +37%
Offered wage since 2020
University of California, San Francisco's median H-1B wage offer rose 37%, from $68,000 in fiscal 2020 to $93,200 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 361 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 Francisco by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 262 | $93,200 | +9.6% | $88,000 | at the minimum |
| 2025 | 361 | $85,000 | +3.5% | $80,034 | at the minimum |
| 2024 | 350 | $82,100 | +4.6% | $77,327 | at the minimum |
| 2023 | 320 | $78,500 | +8.6% | $74,500 | at the minimum |
| 2022 | 323 | $72,300 | +3.1% | $68,600 | at the minimum |
| 2021 | 250 | $70,100 | +3.1% | $65,292 | at the minimum |
| 2020 | 274 | $68,000 | n/a | $61,547 | 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 | 115 | $77,030 | at the minimum | +29% since 2020 | |
| Associate Specialist | 50 | $83,600 | at the minimum | +29% since 2020 | |
| Specialist | 46 | $93,200 | at the minimum | +16% since 2020 | |
| Assistant Professional Researcher | 24 | $93,400 | at the minimum | +19% since 2020 | |
| Assistant Professor | 14 | $285,051 | +186.4% | +65% since 2023 | |
| Visiting Assistant Professor | 9 | $357,100 | +175.0% | −43% since 2020 | |
| Assistant Specialist | 8 | $70,700 | at the minimum | +37% since 2020 | |
| Assistant Researcher | 7 | $99,400 | at the minimum | +19% since 2020 | |
| Assistant Clinical Professor | 6 | $244,342 | +127.4% | ||
| Full Specialist | 6 | $94,850 | at the minimum | +15% since 2020 | |
| Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor | 5 | $366,000 | +266.0% | +51% since 2020 | |
| Assistant Adjunct Professor | 3 | $155,870 | +55.6% | ||
| Assistant Professor in Residence | 3 | $230,937 | +131.0% | 0% since 2020 | |
| Bioinformatics Programmer 3 | 3 | $129,324 | +82.8% | ||
| Clinical Resident (Pgy 2) | 3 | $95,928 | at the minimum | ||
| Health Sciences Clinical Instructor | 3 | $101,085 | at the minimum | ||
| Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery | 2 | $330,000 | +123.2% | ||
| Associate Professional Researcher | 2 | $116,200 | at the minimum | ||
| Clinical Instructor | 2 | $101,085 | at the minimum | ||
| Executive Director of Student Financial Services | 2 | $180,000 | +14.9% | ||
| Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor | 2 | $280,800 | +110.9% | ||
| HS Assistant Clinical Professor | 2 | $259,981 | +128.8% | ||
| Junior Specialist | 2 | $58,600 | at the minimum | ||
| Professional Researcher | 2 | $153,450 | +79.9% | ||
| Research Data Analyst 3 | 2 | $108,844 | +49.4% | ||
| Adjunct Instructor | 1 | $120,000 | +79.5% | ||
| Ambulatory Care Patient Manager | 1 | $211,560 | +22.8% | ||
| Applications Programmer 4 | 1 | $150,564 | +85.0% | ||
| Assistant Biosafety Officer | 1 | $112,000 | +26.1% | ||
| Assistant Professor, in the Adjunct Series | 1 | $137,900 | +37.9% | ||
| Assistant Professor in the Health Sciences Clinical Series | 1 | $165,000 | +65.0% | ||
| Assistant Professor in the In Residence series, Step 3 | 1 | $437,682 | +337.7% | ||
| Associate Physician Diplomate | 1 | $402,000 | +287.7% | ||
| Associate Professor | 1 | $457,424 | +357.5% | ||
| Associate Professor in Residence | 1 | $237,000 | +78.0% | ||
| Bioinformatics Programmer IV | 1 | $119,904 | +40.4% | ||
| Clinical Fellow (Pgy 7) | 1 | $116,315 | at the minimum | ||
| Clinical Fellow (Pgy 8) | 1 | $121,494 | at the minimum | ||
| Clinical Laboratory Scientist | 1 | $139,645 | at the minimum | ||
| Clinical Resident (PGY-1) | 1 | $92,284 | at the minimum | ||
Showing the 40 most-filed of 65 job titles.
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco, CA | 357 | $88,000 |
| Oakland, CA | 4 | $192,038 |
| Berkeley, CA | 1 | $82,328 |
| Minneapolis, MN | 1 | $93,200 |
By visa type: 350 H-1B, 12 E-3 (Australia), 1 H-1B1 (Chile). By outcome: 288 certified, 64 certified and later withdrawn, 11 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 Francisco 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.