W.M. Rice University H-1B wage filings
Houston, TX. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
W.M. Rice University filed 82 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $74,250, 11.9% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs. Its most-filed job was Postdoctoral Associate (21 filings, median $63,000).
- Filings
- 82
- Positions covered
- 82
- Certified
- 100.0%
- Job titles
- 30
- Worksite cities
- 2
- Filings since FY2020
- 551
- Median offer change since FY2020
- +32%
Offered wage since 2020
W.M. Rice University's median H-1B wage offer rose 32%, from $57,750 in fiscal 2020 to $76,500 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 14.2% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 114 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.
W.M. Rice University by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 53 | $76,500 | +3.4% | $69,837 | +14.2% |
| 2025 | 114 | $74,000 | +2.8% | $65,291 | +12.1% |
| 2024 | 81 | $72,000 | +5.4% | $63,419 | +10.3% |
| 2023 | 70 | $68,302 | −10.7% | $54,663 | +29.9% |
| 2022 | 65 | $76,500 | +16.1% | $59,613 | +27.7% |
| 2021 | 82 | $65,894 | +14.1% | $57,803 | +17.6% |
| 2020 | 86 | $57,750 | n/a | $43,556 | +32.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Postdoctoral Associate | 21 | $63,000 | +7.6% | +18% since 2023 | |
| Assistant Professor | 14 | $130,097 | +17.9% | +11% since 2020 | |
| Postdoctoral Research Associate | 13 | $64,000 | +12.0% | +24% since 2020 | |
| Research Scientist | 4 | $72,474 | +1.9% | +1% since 2020 | |
| Research Scientist I | 4 | $73,794 | +6.9% | ||
| Assistant Research Professor | 2 | $81,536 | at the minimum | ||
| Assistant Coach-Women's Tennis | 1 | $45,320 | +32.3% | ||
| Assistant Director of Student Success and Academic Advising | 1 | $60,000 | +7.7% | ||
| Assistant Director, Religious Diversity and Pluralism | 1 | $60,000 | +9.1% | ||
| Assistant Professor, BioSciences | 1 | $125,000 | +4.2% | ||
| Assistant Professor in Economics | 1 | $190,962 | +23.3% | ||
| Assistant Professor, Mathematics | 1 | $130,000 | +64.1% | ||
| Assistant Professor of Marketing | 1 | $221,166 | +51.5% | ||
| Assistant Professor of Operations Management | 1 | $208,587 | +42.9% | ||
| Assistant Teaching Professor | 1 | $75,000 | +6.0% | ||
| Contracts Specialist II | 1 | $87,000 | +45.8% | ||
| Deputy Director of Recruitment | 1 | $92,000 | +22.7% | ||
| Director of Finance Systems and Reporting | 1 | $288,750 | +264.3% | ||
| Electronics Engineer | 1 | $87,984 | +2.8% | ||
| Geospatial Analytics & Data Visualization Specialist | 1 | $74,500 | +25.2% | ||
| Institutional Biosafety Administrator | 1 | $74,880 | +4.0% | ||
| Investment Associate | 1 | $125,000 | +57.8% | ||
| Lecturer | 1 | $79,117 | +0.9% | ||
| Lovett Instructor | 1 | $74,000 | +21.2% | ||
| Research Analyst, Survey Programmer | 1 | $69,000 | +0.1% | ||
| Research Project Manager II | 1 | $80,000 | +27.1% | ||
| Research Scientist III | 1 | $65,998 | +4.8% | ||
| Rice360 Kenya Country Director /NEST360 Country Liaison | 1 | n/a | |||
| Rice360 Malawi Country Director | 1 | $65,000 | +18.1% | ||
| SEA Flow Cytometrist/Microscopist | 1 | $80,000 | +36.3% | ||
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Houston, TX | 81 | $74,000 |
| Los Angeles, CA | 1 | $78,125 |
By visa type: 82 H-1B. By outcome: 82 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 W.M. Rice 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.
- 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.
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