Assistant Specialist H-1B wages

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

Employers filed 25 wage applications for Assistant Specialist jobs from July 2025 to June 2026, across 9 employers. The median offered wage was $69,000, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the job. University of California, San Francisco filed the most (8, median $70,700).

Filings: 25
Positions covered: 25
Employers: 9
Median offered: $69,000
Median prevailing wage: $69,000
Filings since FY2020: 143
Median offer change since FY2020: +27%

Assistant Specialist, all employers25 filings, July 2025 to June 2026

$69,000Median wage employers told the government they would pay

$65,800 to $73,200Where the middle half of the filings fall

$69,000Prevailing wage: the legal minimum for these jobs

Offered wage since 2020

The median wage offered for Assistant Specialist jobs rose 27%, from $55,000 in fiscal 2020 to $69,850 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2025, with 32 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 Specialist by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	16	$69,850	+2.3%	$69,850	at the minimum
2025	32	$68,300	+3.6%	$64,112	at the minimum
2024	20	$65,900	+10.2%	$65,900	at the minimum
2023	25	$59,800	−1.5%	$59,200	at the minimum
2022	19	$60,700	+9.4%	$57,800	at the minimum
2021	13	$55,500	+0.9%	$55,500	at the minimum
2020	18	$55,000	n/a	$55,000	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 Francisco	8	$70,700	at the minimum
University of Hawaii	5	$132,828	+54.8%
Regents of the University of California at Riverside	3	$67,000	at the minimum
University of California, Irvine	3	$63,500	at the minimum
University of California, Davis	2	$64,050	+4.3%
University of California, Los Angeles	1	$100,000	at the minimum
University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources	1	$65,900	+43.4%
University of California, Berkeley	1	$67,000	at the minimum
University of California, Santa Cruz	1	$61,300	at the minimum

Where Assistant Specialist jobs are filed

Worksite	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
San Francisco, CA	8	$70,700	at the minimum
Honolulu, HI	5	$132,828	+54.8%
Irvine, CA	3	$63,500	at the minimum
Riverside, CA	3	$67,000	at the minimum
Berkeley, CA	1	$67,000	at the minimum
Davis, CA	1	$68,900	+8.5%
Los Angeles, CA	1	$100,000	at the minimum
Modesto, CA	1	$65,900	+43.4%
Sacramento, CA	1	$59,200	at the minimum
Santa Cruz, CA	1	$61,300	at the minimum

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry100%

Level II, qualified0%

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.

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