The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston H-1B wage filings

Houston, TX. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston filed 121 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026, covering 118 positions. The median wage it offered was $82,500, 30.0% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Assistant Professor (44 filings, median $124,804).

Filings: 121
Positions covered: 118
Certified: 96.7%
Job titles: 16
Worksite cities: 5
Filings since FY2020: 660
Median offer change since FY2020: +10%

Offered wage since 2020

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston's median H-1B wage offer rose 10%, from $72,456 in fiscal 2020 to $80,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 34.2% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 138 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.

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	80	$80,000	−4.2%	$57,054	+34.2%
2025	138	$83,520	+15.4%	$64,230	+29.4%
2024	121	$72,388	−9.5%	$57,429	+27.2%
2023	80	$80,000	−12.6%	$49,400	+48.1%
2022	112	$91,492	+30.7%	$55,162	+40.5%
2021	64	$70,000	−3.4%	$48,693	+36.0%
2020	65	$72,456	n/a	$48,110	+44.3%

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job title	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing	Median since 2020
Assistant Professor	44	$124,804	+79.6%	+21% since 2020
Postdoctoral Research Fellow	24	$66,492	+20.4%	+24% since 2020
Research Scientist	16	$67,912	+23.0%	+4% since 2023
Fellow	8	$83,520	+4.1%	+3% since 2024
Senior Research Scientist	7	$80,000	+45.4%
Instructor	5	$70,000	+22.7%	+30% since 2022
Senior Research Associate	4	$62,854	+15.1%
Associate Professor	3	$180,000	+73.6%
Graduate Data Scientist	2	$89,500	+0.6%
Program Manager	2	$91,500	+46.5%
Computational Data Analyst	1	$63,199	+9.7%
Data Manager, Clinical Research	1	$103,875	at the minimum
Data Scientist I	1	$98,045	+94.1%
Medical Physics Resident	1	$79,448	+9.5%
Scientific Programmer I	1	$56,613	+40.3%
Scientific Programmer II	1	$59,325	+1.5%

Where the jobs are

Worksite	Filings	Median offered
Houston, TX	116	$80,690
El Paso, TX	2	$98,000
Austin, TX	1	$99,910
Bellaire, TX	1	$83,520
The Woodlands, TX	1	$83,520

By visa type: 120 H-1B, 1 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 63 certified, 54 certified and later withdrawn, 4 withdrawn before a decision.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 202541

Oct to Dec 202522

Jan to Mar 202626

Apr to Jun 202632

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

Level I, entry47%

Level II, qualified25%

Level III, experienced22%

Level IV, fully competent6%

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 The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston 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.