Virginia State University H-1B wage filings

Petersburg, VA. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.

Virginia State University filed 11 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $89,651, 16.3% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Assistant Professor (4 filings, median $79,977).

Filings
11
Positions covered
10
Certified
90.9%
Job titles
7
Worksite cities
1
Filings since FY2020
40
Median offer change since FY2023
+28%

Offered wage since 2020

Virginia State University's median H-1B wage offer rose 28%, from $70,000 in fiscal 2023 to $89,301 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 5.5% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 13 filings.

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year

$40k$60k$80k$100k$56k$70k$49k$74k$89k2202022021420221020234202413202552026*

Fiscal years run October to September. Fiscal 2026 is still running: these figures cover October 2025 to June 2026.

Virginia State University by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFilingsMedian offeredvs year beforeMedian prevailingvs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)5$89,301+21.3%$74,464+5.5%
202513$73,610+48.8%$52,949+28.2%
20244$49,478−29.3%$41,351+19.3%
202310$70,000+25.6%$50,490+26.1%
20224$55,750n/a$45,140+22.2%
20212n/an/an/an/a
20202n/an/an/an/a

Offered wage by job title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Job titleFilingsMedian offeredOffered range and prevailing wagevs prevailing
Assistant Professor4$79,977+8.0%
Research Associate2$90,000+13.2%
Agricultural Research Scientist1$108,000+153.0%
Assistant Professor “ Department of Management & Marketing1$95,000+86.8%
Director of Institutional Research, Analytics, and Decision1$104,000+13.1%
Post Doctoral Research Associate1$55,000+22.9%
Professor1n/a

Where the jobs are

WorksiteFilingsMedian offered
Petersburg, VA11$89,651

By visa type: 11 H-1B. By outcome: 8 certified, 2 certified and later withdrawn, 1 withdrawn before a decision.

Filings by quarter

Jul to Sep 20256
Jan to Mar 20263
Apr to Jun 20262

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, entry10%
Level II, qualified80%
Level III, experienced10%
Level IV, fully competent0%

The government assigns each job one of four wage levels. A higher level means a higher legal minimum.

What these numbers are

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.

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