University of Illinois H-1B wage filings
Urbana, IL. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
University of Illinois filed 294 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $83,250, 19.9% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Assistant Professor (74 filings, median $119,230).
- Filings
- 294
- Positions covered
- 289
- Certified
- 98.3%
- Job titles
- 72
- Worksite cities
- 12
- Filings since FY2020
- 1,246
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +36%
Offered wage since 2020
University of Illinois's median H-1B wage offer rose 36%, from $62,836 in fiscal 2020 to $85,463 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 20.7% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 242 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 Illinois by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 209 | $85,463 | +9.9% | $63,623 | +20.7% |
| 2025 | 242 | $77,775 | −0.3% | $59,985 | +21.8% |
| 2024 | 221 | $78,000 | +6.1% | $56,440 | +32.9% |
| 2023 | 222 | $73,500 | +6.4% | $56,659 | +19.2% |
| 2022 | 156 | $69,056 | −5.4% | $47,570 | +22.2% |
| 2021 | 107 | $73,000 | +16.2% | $46,330 | +21.3% |
| 2020 | 89 | $62,836 | n/a | $45,006 | +28.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assistant Professor | 74 | $119,230 | +50.2% | +20% since 2020 | |
| Postdoctoral Research Associate | 58 | $62,200 | +5.6% | +25% since 2020 | |
| Research Scientist | 21 | $72,010 | +4.4% | +41% since 2021 | |
| Teaching Assistant Professor | 14 | $95,300 | +55.7% | −21% since 2021 | |
| Visiting Research Scientist | 8 | $62,000 | +59.4% | ||
| Clinical Assistant Professor | 7 | $145,000 | +35.6% | +29% since 2023 | |
| Veterinary Resident | 7 | $45,000 | +9.1% | +22% since 2022 | |
| Research Software Engineer | 6 | $90,191 | +16.6% | ||
| Associate Professor | 4 | $118,683 | +83.2% | ||
| Instructor | 4 | $90,000 | +41.2% | 0% since 2024 | |
| Lecturer | 4 | $59,000 | +1.5% | +27% since 2022 | |
| Research Engineer | 4 | $93,981 | +24.9% | ||
| Research Specialist | 4 | $61,544 | +26.9% | ||
| Professor | 3 | $151,167 | +145.4% | ||
| Research Assistant Professor | 3 | $114,597 | +96.9% | ||
| Senior Scientific Specialist | 3 | $66,963 | +14.7% | ||
| Teaching Associate Professor | 3 | $114,511 | +105.1% | ||
| Visiting Research Specialist | 3 | $53,000 | +38.4% | ||
| Biofoundry User Program Manager | 2 | $85,750 | +15.0% | ||
| Construction Project Manager | 2 | $98,910 | +2.4% | ||
| Research Data Specialist | 2 | $76,549 | +31.6% | ||
| Research Programmer | 2 | $69,315 | +7.7% | ||
| Research Specialist, Cytometry and Microscopy to Omics | 2 | $61,812 | +13.5% | ||
| Senior Research Scientist | 2 | $99,200 | +7.8% | ||
| Senior Research Specialist | 2 | $86,022 | +74.2% | ||
| Sustainable Transportation Assistant | 2 | $66,830 | at the minimum | ||
| Visiting Scholar | 2 | $64,500 | +2.3% | ||
| Visiting Senior Scientific Specialist | 2 | $72,500 | +87.6% | ||
| Assistant Director Graduate & International Programs | 1 | $66,488 | +11.0% | ||
| Assistant Director of iDegrees | 1 | $65,395 | +44.3% | ||
| Assistant Professsor | 1 | $92,731 | +44.1% | ||
| Assistant Research Scientist | 1 | $65,000 | +1.3% | ||
| Assistant Research Scientist, Project Engineer | 1 | $92,164 | +32.6% | ||
| Associate Graphics and Motion Designer | 1 | $59,590 | +32.8% | ||
| Automation Engineer | 1 | $87,402 | at the minimum | ||
| Cancer Data Development Coordinator | 1 | $62,620 | +18.9% | ||
| Chinese Studies Librarian, Assistant Professor | 1 | $78,032 | +29.2% | ||
| Clinical Associate Professor | 1 | $145,000 | +176.2% | ||
| Clinical Counselor | 1 | $80,000 | +42.8% | ||
| CTF Transformation Pipeline Manager | 1 | $64,873 | +33.6% | ||
Showing the 40 most-filed of 72 job titles.
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Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Urbana, IL | 205 | $76,385 |
| Champaign, IL | 77 | $92,677 |
| Rantoul, IL | 2 | $57,280 |
| Springfield, IL | 2 | $76,549 |
| Auburn, IL | 1 | $32,243 |
| Bloomington, IL | 1 | $86,022 |
| Cambridge, MA | 1 | $70,600 |
| Cincinnati, OH | 1 | $95,786 |
| Contra Costa, CA | 1 | $88,816 |
| Houston, TX | 1 | $65,395 |
| Lynnwood, WA | 1 | $84,344 |
| Seattle, WA | 1 | $63,149 |
By visa type: 294 H-1B. By outcome: 171 certified, 118 certified and later withdrawn, 5 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 Illinois 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.