Associate Scientist H-1B wages

Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026. Most are classified as Biochemists and Biophysicists (SOC 19-1021).

Employers filed 188 wage applications for Associate Scientist jobs from July 2025 to June 2026, across 74 employers. The median offered wage was $85,300, 6.8% above the government's prevailing wage for the job. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai filed the most (25, median $85,000).

Filings: 188
Positions covered: 237
Employers: 74
Median offered: $85,300
Median prevailing wage: $74,714
Filings since FY2020: 926
Median offer change since FY2020: +10%

Associate Scientist, all employers188 filings, July 2025 to June 2026

$85,300Median wage employers told the government they would pay

$68,918 to $99,362Where the middle half of the filings fall

$74,714Prevailing wage: the legal minimum for these jobs

Offered wage since 2020

The median wage offered for Associate Scientist jobs rose 10%, from $77,000 in fiscal 2020 to $85,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 6.6% above the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2025, with 179 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 Scientist by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	148	$85,000	−0.7%	$74,714	+6.6%
2025	179	$85,572	+0.3%	$74,714	+8.4%
2024	147	$85,301	+5.0%	$77,917	+8.4%
2023	133	$81,253	−2.3%	$66,768	+10.0%
2022	114	$83,150	+4.2%	$75,213	+9.6%
2021	100	$79,805	+3.6%	$67,923	+6.4%
2020	105	$77,000	n/a	$67,954	+7.2%

Employers that file for this title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Employer	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	25	$85,000	+13.8%
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital	22	$65,520	+3.0%
Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC	16	$99,362	at the minimum
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	14	$91,631	+5.9%
Temple University--A Commonwealth University	10	$64,636	+3.8%
Fermi Research Alliance, LLC	6	$83,098	+6.8%
Imanis Life Sciences, LLC	5	$65,298	+24.4%
Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc.	4	$112,043	+18.7%
Leland Stanford Jr. Univ/SLAC National Accelerator Lab	3	$134,000	+43.4%
Primera Analytical Solutions Corporation	3	$60,000	+13.5%
The Henry M. Jackson Foundation	3	$73,000	+6.4%
American Cancer Society, Inc.	2	$62,483	at the minimum
Insmed Incorporated	2	$111,440	+45.6%
Wild Type, Inc.	2	$95,000	+0.1%
GenScript USA Inc.	2	$72,500	+30.5%
University of Miami	2	$86,500	+41.9%
FL Tech Solutions, LLC.	2	$51,655	+22.1%
Aditi Consulting LLC	2	$75,400	+40.4%
University of Delaware	2	$79,000	+3.9%
Granules Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$63,690	at the minimum
Impossible Foods Inc.	2	$107,214	at the minimum
Ring Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$145,808	+25.6%
Inventprise Inc.	2	$65,042	at the minimum
Genentech, Inc.	1	$116,376	at the minimum
Celltheon Corporation	1	$120,000	+6.6%

Showing the 25 employers with the most filings of 74. Employers with fewer than 5 filings in total are counted but not named.

Where Associate Scientist jobs are filed

Worksite	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
New York, NY	26	$85,000	+13.9%
Batavia, IL	22	$85,301	+1.8%
Memphis, TN	22	$65,520	+3.0%
Cambridge, MA	14	$111,226	+8.8%
Tarrytown, NY	14	$91,631	+5.9%
Philadelphia, PA	10	$64,636	+3.8%
Rochester, MN	5	$65,298	+24.4%
Watertown, MA	5	$115,000	+15.5%
Cranbury, NJ	4	$62,115	+6.8%
Boston, MA	3	$105,000	+1.9%
Menlo Park, CA	3	$134,000	+43.4%
Atlanta, GA	2	$62,483	at the minimum
Bethesda, MD	2	$71,900	+9.2%
Chantilly, VA	2	$63,690	at the minimum
Gaithersburg, MD	2	$94,659	+20.2%
Lebanon, NH	2	$111,440	+45.6%
Miami, FL	2	$86,500	+41.9%
Newark, DE	2	$79,000	+3.9%
Piscataway, NJ	2	$72,500	+30.5%
Portland, OR	2	$100,000	+23.7%
Redmond, WA	2	$65,042	at the minimum
Redwood City, CA	2	$107,214	at the minimum
San Francisco, CA	2	$95,000	+0.1%
Somerville, MA	2	$115,000	+1.4%
South San Francisco, CA	2	$131,607	+4.6%

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry17%

Level II, qualified68%

Level III, experienced11%

Level IV, fully competent4%

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.
12 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.