Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University H-1B wage filings
Blacksburg, VA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026. Also filed as Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University filed 258 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $80,000, 22.7% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Assistant Professor (38 filings, median $105,104).
- Filings
- 258
- Positions covered
- 256
- Certified
- 99.2%
- Job titles
- 114
- Worksite cities
- 20
- Filings since FY2020
- 1,024
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +16%
Offered wage since 2020
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University's median H-1B wage offer rose 16%, from $67,500 in fiscal 2020 to $78,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 20.4% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 235 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.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 171 | $78,000 | −4.9% | $68,053 | +20.4% |
| 2025 | 235 | $82,000 | −6.4% | $65,740 | +26.3% |
| 2024 | 130 | $87,564 | +9.9% | $64,668 | +28.1% |
| 2023 | 123 | $79,694 | +5.3% | $56,930 | +20.0% |
| 2022 | 192 | $75,712 | −7.9% | $56,420 | +23.4% |
| 2021 | 92 | $82,240 | +21.8% | $49,670 | +27.8% |
| 2020 | 81 | $67,500 | n/a | $53,414 | +16.8% |
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 | 38 | $105,104 | +55.1% | +14% since 2020 | |
| Postdoctoral Associate | 36 | $68,053 | +4.9% | +25% since 2020 | |
| Research Associate | 23 | $73,840 | +2.9% | +17% since 2020 | |
| Research Scientist | 23 | $80,000 | +16.2% | +20% since 2022 | |
| Senior Research Associate | 6 | $66,945 | +15.8% | ||
| Instructor | 5 | $52,000 | +2.0% | −5% since 2020 | |
| Research Assistant Professor | 5 | $83,480 | +26.7% | −6% since 2021 | |
| Assistant Professor, Computer Science | 4 | $132,290 | +74.2% | ||
| Adjunct Assistant Professor in Geography | 3 | $89,336 | +42.1% | ||
| Collegiate Assistant Professor | 3 | $94,000 | +66.6% | ||
| Microfabrication-Semiconductor Process Engineer | 3 | $90,702 | +25.1% | ||
| Assistant Professor - Animal Data Sciences | 2 | $93,842 | +16.8% | ||
| Assistant Professor in Communication | 2 | $75,000 | +42.6% | ||
| Data Scientist | 2 | $86,344 | +15.3% | ||
| Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow | 2 | $72,500 | +0.2% | ||
| Senior Data Analytics Auditor | 2 | $93,473 | +6.7% | ||
| Surgery Resident | 2 | $59,000 | +33.4% | ||
| 3D Technical Artist - Digital Librarian | 1 | $59,000 | +22.5% | ||
| Adjunct Faculty - Instructor | 1 | $102,627 | +131.4% | ||
| Advancement Program and Event Manager | 1 | $62,100 | at the minimum | ||
| AI Research Scientist - Assistant Professor | 1 | $95,000 | +27.1% | ||
| Ass't Director for Assessment and Professional Development | 1 | $65,000 | +38.8% | ||
| Assistant Collegiate Professor | 1 | $96,000 | +47.4% | ||
| Assistant Director, Strategic Analysis | 1 | $107,997 | +95.3% | ||
| Assistant Professor - Aerospace and Ocean Engineering | 1 | $110,000 | +19.7% | ||
| Assistant Professor-AI/ML for Aerospace and Ocean Perception | 1 | $124,000 | +60.4% | ||
| Assistant Professor, Building Design | 1 | $90,000 | +33.1% | ||
| Assistant Professor - Chemical Engineering | 1 | $115,000 | +48.7% | ||
| Assistant Professor - Chemistry | 1 | $100,000 | +34.6% | ||
| Assistant Professor, Cinema | 1 | $69,007 | +48.2% | ||
| Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering | 1 | $115,027 | +66.2% | ||
| Assistant Professor - Energy Transition Geoscience | 1 | $100,000 | +57.3% | ||
| Assistant Professor-Environmental Organic Chemist | 1 | $92,000 | +40.4% | ||
| Assistant Professor, Fashion Merchandising & Design | 1 | $88,900 | +67.9% | ||
| Assistant Professor - Geography | 1 | $91,895 | +34.6% | ||
| Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture | 1 | $87,503 | +29.4% | ||
| Assistant Professor - Microeconomics | 1 | $136,477 | +97.4% | ||
| Assistant Professor - Multimedia Journalism | 1 | $75,000 | +42.6% | ||
| Assistant Professor, Music Technology | 1 | $75,000 | +11.7% | ||
| Assistant Professor of Computer Science | 1 | $125,000 | +148.7% | ||
Showing the 40 most-filed of 114 job titles.
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Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Blacksburg, VA | 210 | $80,000 |
| Washington, DC | 10 | $120,000 |
| Roanoke, VA | 9 | $64,688 |
| Alexandria, VA | 4 | $93,473 |
| Arlington, VA | 4 | $83,490 |
| Alton, VA | 3 | $110,376 |
| Leesburg, VA | 3 | $61,000 |
| Hampton, VA | 2 | $69,000 |
| Suffolk, VA | 2 | $82,270 |
| Batavia, IL | 1 | $72,000 |
| Boulder, CO | 1 | $84,800 |
| Manassas, VA | 1 | $70,000 |
Showing the 12 busiest of 20 worksite cities.
By visa type: 258 H-1B. By outcome: 161 certified, 95 certified and later withdrawn, 2 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 Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University 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.
- 15 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.