Assistant Research Scientist H-1B wages

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

Employers filed 239 wage applications for Assistant Research Scientist jobs from July 2025 to June 2026, across 29 employers. The median offered wage was $75,000, 15.9% above the government's prevailing wage for the job. Johns Hopkins University filed the most (35, median $77,000).

Filings: 239
Positions covered: 233
Employers: 29
Median offered: $75,000
Median prevailing wage: $64,189
Filings since FY2020: 1,139
Median offer change since FY2020: +25%

Assistant Research Scientist, all employers239 filings, July 2025 to June 2026

$75,000Median wage employers told the government they would pay

$65,968 to $90,636Where the middle half of the filings fall

$64,189Prevailing wage: the legal minimum for these jobs

Offered wage since 2020

The median wage offered for Assistant Research Scientist jobs rose 25%, from $60,000 in fiscal 2020 to $75,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 17.1% above the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2025, with 202 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 Research Scientist by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	179	$75,000	+0.9%	$64,459	+17.1%
2025	202	$74,330	+6.2%	$62,369	+15.4%
2024	181	$70,020	+0.1%	$60,476	+13.9%
2023	169	$69,964	+4.4%	$56,951	+19.5%
2022	156	$67,040	+8.5%	$55,349	+17.9%
2021	112	$61,800	+3.0%	$53,186	+13.3%
2020	140	$60,000	n/a	$51,376	+16.6%

Employers that file for this title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Employer	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Johns Hopkins University	35	$77,000	+4.8%
University of Maryland College Park	28	$90,900	+11.9%
The University of Iowa	27	$71,198	+12.5%
Arizona State University	24	$67,009	+10.7%
University of Michigan	24	$89,131	+41.4%
Texas A&M University	24	$64,224	+15.9%
University of Maryland, Baltimore County	11	$101,000	+45.5%
NYU Grossman School of Medicine	7	$74,480	+21.6%
Texas A&M AgriLife Research	7	$65,000	+7.2%
BOR USGA obo Augusta University	6	$66,620	+18.5%
University of Georgia	6	$65,300	+25.8%
University of California, San Diego	5	$122,700	at the minimum
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley	5	$52,000	+41.8%
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station	4	$67,237	+16.6%
University of Georgia; OGE	3	$65,000	+13.9%
New York University	3	$80,000	+30.8%
The Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc.	3	$66,300	+7.8%
Purdue University	3	$69,618	at the minimum
Texas A&M Transportation Institute	3	$106,288	+11.6%
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science	2	$77,014	+31.6%
University of Maryland	1	$101,816	at the minimum
Indiana University	1	$64,676	+7.0%
The College of William and Mary	1	$76,220	+10.7%
University of Illinois	1	$65,000	+1.3%
The Nemours Foundation - Nemours Children's Health	1	$70,024	+14.2%

Showing the 25 employers with the most filings of 29. Employers with fewer than 5 filings in total are counted but not named.

Where Assistant Research Scientist jobs are filed

Worksite	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Baltimore, MD	43	$86,033	+10.7%
College Station, TX	29	$64,272	+15.9%
Iowa City, IA	27	$71,198	+12.5%
College Park, MD	24	$90,636	+5.3%
Ann Arbor, MI	23	$89,124	+41.4%
Tempe, AZ	19	$67,018	+19.2%
New York, NY	13	$71,641	+23.0%
Athens, GA	9	$65,000	+14.7%
Augusta, GA	6	$66,620	+18.5%
Greenbelt, MD	5	$101,000	+0.8%
La Jolla, CA	5	$122,700	at the minimum
Houston, TX	4	$117,125	at the minimum
Mcallen, TX	4	$50,952	+38.9%
Mesa, AZ	3	$54,570	+14.7%
West Lafayette, IN	3	$69,618	at the minimum
Bryan, TX	2	$81,644	+1.3%
Temple, TX	2	$74,804	+1.4%
Amherst, NY	1	$141,750	+48.8%
Annapolis, MD	1	$92,183	+44.9%
Bloomington, IN	1	$64,676	+7.0%
Caguas, PR	1	$74,460	+0.8%
Champaign, IL	1	$65,000	+1.3%
Charlottesville, VA	1	$70,000	+47.2%
Edinburg, TX	1	$60,000	+44.2%
Fort Lauderdale, FL	1	$54,075	+3.7%

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry58%

Level II, qualified19%

Level III, experienced21%

Level IV, fully competent2%

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.
8 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.