Assistant Project Scientist H-1B wages

Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026. Most are classified as Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists (SOC 19-1042).

Employers filed 250 wage applications for Assistant Project Scientist jobs from July 2025 to June 2026, across 9 employers. The median offered wage was $85,000, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the job. University of California, San Diego filed the most (72, median $85,000).

Filings: 250
Positions covered: 243
Employers: 9
Median offered: $85,000
Median prevailing wage: $80,800
Filings since FY2020: 1,168
Median offer change since FY2020: +33%

Assistant Project Scientist, all employers250 filings, July 2025 to June 2026

$85,000Median wage employers told the government they would pay

$79,300 to $89,000Where the middle half of the filings fall

$80,800Prevailing wage: the legal minimum for these jobs

Offered wage since 2020

The median wage offered for Assistant Project Scientist jobs rose 33%, from $64,000 in fiscal 2020 to $85,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2025, with 217 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.

Assistant Project Scientist by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	197	$85,000	+3.5%	$80,800	at the minimum
2025	217	$82,100	+3.6%	$78,000	at the minimum
2024	187	$79,250	+5.2%	$75,800	at the minimum
2023	173	$75,300	+8.7%	$72,000	at the minimum
2022	159	$69,300	+3.0%	$69,300	at the minimum
2021	109	$67,300	+5.2%	$66,600	at the minimum
2020	126	$64,000	n/a	$63,700	at the minimum

Employers that file for this title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Employer	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
University of California, San Diego	72	$85,000	at the minimum
University of California, Berkeley	40	$89,000	at the minimum
University of California, Davis	39	$82,900	+10.8%
University of California, Los Angeles	38	$85,000	at the minimum
Regents of the University of California at Riverside	34	$76,700	at the minimum
University of California, Irvine	19	$80,800	at the minimum
University of California, Santa Cruz	5	$85,900	at the minimum
University of California at Santa Barbara	2	$83,600	at the minimum
University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources	1	$75,800	+18.5%

Where Assistant Project Scientist jobs are filed

Worksite	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
La Jolla, CA	68	$85,000	at the minimum
Berkeley, CA	39	$89,000	at the minimum
Los Angeles, CA	38	$85,000	at the minimum
Davis, CA	35	$83,000	+10.9%
Riverside, CA	29	$76,700	at the minimum
Irvine, CA	19	$80,800	at the minimum
Parlier, CA	6	$78,043	at the minimum
San Diego, CA	5	$85,000	at the minimum
Sacramento, CA	4	$79,400	+4.0%
Santa Cruz, CA	3	$86,400	at the minimum
Richmond, CA	2	$98,550	at the minimum
Santa Barbara, CA	2	$83,600	at the minimum

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry0%

Level II, qualified100%

Level III, experienced0%

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

They are wages employers 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.
10 filings are for part-time work. Hourly wages are shown as full-time equivalents (2,080 hours a year).

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