University of North Dakota H-1B wage filings
Grand Forks, ND. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
University of North Dakota filed 43 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $77,000, 16.2% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Assistant Professor (8 filings, median $87,500).
- Filings
- 43
- Positions covered
- 43
- Certified
- 100.0%
- Job titles
- 29
- Worksite cities
- 5
- Filings since FY2020
- 258
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +23%
Offered wage since 2020
University of North Dakota's median H-1B wage offer rose 23%, from $64,000 in fiscal 2020 to $78,957 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 15.6% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 55 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 North Dakota by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 35 | $78,957 | +10.9% | $65,874 | +15.6% |
| 2025 | 55 | $71,193 | −9.2% | $61,310 | +19.1% |
| 2024 | 28 | $78,375 | +12.0% | $63,502 | +18.0% |
| 2023 | 45 | $70,000 | +13.5% | $55,989 | +15.2% |
| 2022 | 39 | $61,678 | −11.6% | $51,179 | +16.7% |
| 2021 | 29 | $69,744 | +9.0% | $60,487 | +24.4% |
| 2020 | 27 | $64,000 | n/a | $50,960 | +21.2% |
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 | 8 | $87,500 | +32.5% | +9% since 2020 | |
| Resident Physician | 4 | $70,805 | +6.8% | ||
| Assistant Research Professor | 2 | $118,652 | +50.2% | ||
| Associate Professor | 2 | $120,090 | +35.7% | ||
| Principal Reservoir Engineer | 2 | $135,200 | +14.9% | ||
| Senior Lead Flight Instructor | 2 | $65,265 | +5.1% | ||
| Assistant Professor, Communication Department | 1 | $69,232 | +19.8% | ||
| Assistant Professor - Computational Biologist | 1 | $90,000 | +63.1% | ||
| Assistant Professor of Chemistry | 1 | $77,000 | +24.7% | ||
| Assistant Professor of Communication | 1 | $66,500 | +15.0% | ||
| Assistant Professor of Engineering | 1 | $95,000 | +43.4% | ||
| Assistant Professor of Finance | 1 | $149,594 | +99.8% | ||
| Assistant Professor of Petroleum Engineering | 1 | $95,304 | +15.6% | ||
| Biomedical Researcher | 1 | $53,851 | at the minimum | ||
| Certified Flight Instructor | 1 | $66,560 | +14.0% | ||
| Data Scientist | 1 | $91,928 | +12.1% | ||
| Family Medicine Resident Physician | 1 | $72,120 | +9.5% | ||
| Materials Characterization Specialist | 1 | $59,337 | +14.7% | ||
| Oilfield Operations Specialist | 1 | $78,957 | +10.6% | ||
| Post Doctoral Fellow | 1 | $57,816 | +7.4% | ||
| Post-Doctoral Research Fellow | 1 | $50,000 | +4.6% | ||
| Postdoctoral Fellow | 1 | $60,000 | +6.8% | ||
| Postdoctoral Researcher | 1 | $54,502 | +1.2% | ||
| Research Assistant Professor | 1 | $75,346 | +34.1% | ||
| Research Associate Professor | 1 | $120,000 | +38.9% | ||
| Research Engineer | 1 | $87,360 | +29.3% | ||
| Software Developer | 1 | $85,358 | +21.0% | ||
| Teaching Assistant Professor | 1 | $86,959 | +31.2% | ||
| Visiting Research Scholar | 1 | $70,667 | +19.3% | ||
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Grand Forks, ND | 35 | $78,957 |
| Fargo, ND | 4 | $70,805 |
| Katy, TX | 2 | $135,200 |
| Aubrey, TX | 1 | $91,928 |
| Bismarck, ND | 1 | $72,120 |
By visa type: 43 H-1B. By outcome: 43 certified.
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 North Dakota 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.