Washington University H-1B wage filings
St. Louis, MO. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
Washington University filed 507 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $69,432, 17.9% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Staff Scientist (129 filings, median $66,492).
- Filings
- 507
- Positions covered
- 488
- Certified
- 96.3%
- Job titles
- 78
- Worksite cities
- 8
- Filings since FY2020
- 2,220
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +20%
Offered wage since 2020
Washington University's median H-1B wage offer rose 20%, from $57,949 in fiscal 2020 to $69,432 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 18.3% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 511 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.
Washington University by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 348 | $69,432 | −0.8% | $56,618 | +18.3% |
| 2025 | 511 | $70,000 | +4.5% | $60,445 | +16.1% |
| 2024 | 391 | $67,000 | +6.9% | $56,514 | +19.8% |
| 2023 | 270 | $62,700 | −0.5% | $55,890 | +18.0% |
| 2022 | 257 | $63,000 | +5.0% | $58,968 | +19.2% |
| 2021 | 224 | $60,000 | +3.5% | $57,949 | +19.5% |
| 2020 | 219 | $57,949 | n/a | $54,704 | +12.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staff Scientist | 129 | $66,492 | +15.7% | +22% since 2020 | |
| Postdoctoral Research Associate | 85 | $63,430 | +16.1% | +28% since 2020 | |
| Assistant Professor | 53 | $140,000 | +66.3% | +32% since 2020 | |
| Instructor | 47 | $86,000 | +26.8% | +2% since 2020 | |
| Senior Scientist | 30 | $72,300 | +6.0% | +9% since 2022 | |
| Clinical Fellow Associate | 17 | $88,190 | +30.0% | +25% since 2022 | |
| Research Assistant | 15 | $53,851 | +0.3% | +15% since 2022 | |
| Bioinformaticist | 11 | $71,250 | +17.1% | −14% since 2025 | |
| Lecturer | 8 | $58,500 | +12.9% | +10% since 2021 | |
| Clinical Research Coordinator I | 5 | $61,608 | +1.5% | ||
| Statistical Data Analyst | 5 | $64,518 | +9.1% | +4% since 2020 | |
| Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology | 4 | $298,543 | +102.8% | ||
| Associate Professor | 4 | $249,456 | +124.8% | ||
| Clinical Research Coordinator II | 4 | $62,971 | +1.9% | ||
| Research Assistant Professor | 4 | $82,000 | +2.8% | ||
| Assistant Professor of Medicine | 3 | $240,000 | +39.4% | ||
| Bioinformatics Research Analyst | 3 | $60,000 | +5.9% | ||
| Bioinformatics Research Assistant | 3 | $53,851 | at the minimum | ||
| Instructor in Medicine | 3 | $74,160 | +8.8% | ||
| Senior Research Technician | 3 | $55,994 | at the minimum | +4% since 2020 | |
| Statistical Data Analyst III | 3 | $105,639 | +13.0% | ||
| Assistant Professor of Finance | 2 | $298,200 | +232.8% | ||
| Assistant Professor of Practice | 2 | $127,500 | +215.3% | ||
| Associate Professor of Pediatrics | 2 | $174,072 | +46.1% | ||
| Clinical Fellow | 2 | $93,168 | +65.5% | ||
| Clinical Research Associate | 2 | $66,329 | +0.5% | ||
| HPC Research Facilitator III | 2 | $98,088 | +64.5% | ||
| International Specialist Assistant Professor | 2 | $298,543 | +334.9% | ||
| Public Health Research Coordinator II | 2 | $60,715 | at the minimum | ||
| Pulic Health Research Coordinator II | 2 | $60,715 | at the minimum | ||
| Research Assistant - Analytics & Business Insights | 2 | $70,200 | at the minimum | ||
| Research Specialist | 2 | $52,289 | +35.0% | ||
| 25-1071.00 Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary | 1 | n/a | |||
| Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology | 1 | $138,656 | +103.4% | ||
| Assistant Professor of Economics | 1 | $145,000 | +9.1% | ||
| Assistant Professor of Marketing | 1 | $251,449 | +219.6% | ||
| Assistant Professor of Neurology | 1 | $210,120 | +56.7% | ||
| Assistant Professor of Neuroscience | 1 | $123,600 | +47.9% | ||
| Assistant Professor of Pediatrics | 1 | $231,278 | +141.3% | ||
| Assistant Professor of Radiology | 1 | $391,400 | +228.6% | ||
Showing the 40 most-filed of 78 job titles.
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| St. Louis, MO | 498 | $69,139 |
| Huntington, NY | 2 | $81,893 |
| New York, NY | 2 | $81,136 |
| Fremont, CA | 1 | $106,725 |
| Hyattsville, MD | 1 | $53,851 |
| Los Angeles, CA | 1 | $104,552 |
| St. Loius, MO | 1 | $56,000 |
| San Antonio, TX | 1 | $230,000 |
By visa type: 505 H-1B, 2 E-3 (Australia). By outcome: 399 certified, 89 certified and later withdrawn, 19 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 Washington 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.
- 14 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.