Associate Professor H-1B wages

Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026. Most are classified as Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary (SOC 25-1071).

Employers filed 403 wage applications for Associate Professor jobs from July 2025 to June 2026, across 187 employers. The median offered wage was $134,631, 63.2% above the government's prevailing wage for the job. The Pennsylvania State University filed the most (10, median $140,494).

Filings: 403
Positions covered: 393
Employers: 187
Median offered: $134,631
Median prevailing wage: $79,912
Filings since FY2020: 2,049
Median offer change since FY2020: +22%

Associate Professor, all employers403 filings, July 2025 to June 2026

$134,631Median wage employers told the government they would pay

$102,715 to $178,004Where the middle half of the filings fall

$79,912Prevailing wage: the legal minimum for these jobs

Offered wage since 2020

The median wage offered for Associate Professor jobs rose 22%, from $110,287 in fiscal 2020 to $134,770 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 60.2% above the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2025, with 374 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.

Associate Professor by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	293	$134,770	+3.7%	$81,792	+60.2%
2025	374	$130,000	+6.1%	$79,747	+62.2%
2024	316	$122,473	+1.2%	$74,789	+53.6%
2023	272	$121,000	−1.8%	$75,403	+57.4%
2022	335	$123,200	+12.0%	$75,890	+52.0%
2021	214	$110,000	−0.3%	$76,440	+40.8%
2020	245	$110,287	n/a	$75,457	+44.0%

Employers that file for this title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Employer	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
The Pennsylvania State University	10	$140,494	+128.8%
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences	9	$425,849	+248.6%
Yale University	9	$222,000	+131.7%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	8	$170,891	+58.3%
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska	8	$82,296	+52.5%
Emory University	7	$180,180	+158.3%
Texas A&M University	7	$133,628	+56.6%
The University of Texas El Paso	6	$103,220	+87.0%
Georgia Institute of Technology	6	$128,080	+20.7%
North Carolina State University	6	$123,531	+10.9%
University of Michigan	6	$142,400	+40.0%
Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc.	6	$393,663	+174.3%
Johns Hopkins University	6	$159,750	+59.9%
The University of Alabama at Birmingham	6	$285,287	+292.1%
UT Southwestern Medical Center	5	$240,000	+88.6%
Columbia University	5	$185,400	+106.2%
University of Colorado Denver	5	$133,690	at the minimum
Washington University	4	$249,456	+124.8%
Northeastern University	4	$154,750	+39.1%
University of Hawaii	4	$124,188	+38.6%
Northwestern University	4	$154,873	+66.0%
University of Illinois	4	$118,683	+83.2%
Trustees of Boston University	4	$145,915	+69.6%
Baylor College of Medicine	4	$329,539	+136.4%
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	4	$285,050	+183.6%

Showing the 25 employers with the most filings of 187. Employers with fewer than 5 filings in total are counted but not named.

Where Associate Professor jobs are filed

Worksite	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Atlanta, GA	15	$149,912	+118.6%
Houston, TX	13	$213,728	+105.3%
New York, NY	11	$180,000	+140.9%
Birmingham, AL	10	$468,291	+423.8%
Boston, MA	10	$150,500	+52.2%
Little Rock, AR	9	$425,849	+248.6%
New Haven, CT	9	$205,169	+107.2%
Milwaukee, WI	8	$360,650	+98.8%
Baltimore, MD	7	$125,000	+56.3%
University Park, PA	7	$122,796	+121.5%
College Station, TX	6	$132,500	+43.6%
El Paso, TX	6	$103,220	+87.0%
Raleigh, NC	6	$123,531	+10.9%
St. Louis, MO	6	$249,456	+86.5%
Chicago, IL	5	$127,717	+69.5%
Dallas, TX	5	$240,000	+88.6%
Piscataway, NJ	5	$150,075	+76.7%
Rochester, NY	5	$56,850	at the minimum
Ann Arbor, MI	4	$142,400	+40.0%
Evanston, IL	4	$154,873	+66.0%
Honolulu, HI	4	$124,188	+38.6%
Salt Lake City, UT	4	$340,000	+252.2%
West Lafayette, IN	4	$130,063	+21.5%
Auburn, AL	3	$100,530	+27.6%
Aurora, CO	3	$133,690	at the minimum

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry33%

Level II, qualified41%

Level III, experienced17%

Level IV, fully competent9%

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.