Instructor H-1B wages

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

Employers filed 625 wage applications for Instructor jobs from July 2025 to June 2026, across 121 employers. The median offered wage was $77,901, 27.1% above the government's prevailing wage for the job. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University filed the most (62, median $65,354).

Filings: 625
Positions covered: 606
Employers: 121
Median offered: $77,901
Median prevailing wage: $63,400
Filings since FY2020: 3,231
Median offer change since FY2020: +21%

Instructor, all employers625 filings, July 2025 to June 2026

$77,901Median wage employers told the government they would pay

$68,777 to $95,000Where the middle half of the filings fall

$63,400Prevailing wage: the legal minimum for these jobs

Offered wage since 2020

The median wage offered for Instructor jobs rose 21%, from $65,000 in fiscal 2020 to $78,370 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 28.3% above the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2024, with 559 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.

Instructor by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	449	$78,370	+3.1%	$63,534	+28.3%
2025	558	$76,000	+1.5%	$61,846	+21.6%
2024	559	$74,880	+7.0%	$57,336	+23.4%
2023	478	$70,000	+7.7%	$56,430	+19.9%
2022	475	$65,000	−4.4%	$55,099	+16.8%
2021	333	$68,000	+4.6%	$54,190	+17.9%
2020	379	$65,000	n/a	$51,380	+19.8%

Employers that file for this title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Employer	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University	62	$65,354	at the minimum
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	48	$77,000	+40.2%
Washington University	47	$86,000	+26.8%
UT Southwestern Medical Center	42	$72,050	+38.1%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	37	$97,500	+29.4%
Baylor College of Medicine	29	$79,300	+37.4%
The Leland Stanford, Jr University	24	$94,000	+16.5%
Albert Einstein College of Medicine	23	$76,500	+26.7%
Weill Cornell Medical College	17	$91,500	+31.9%
The University of Alabama at Birmingham	16	$95,000	+62.3%
Emory University	12	$78,875	+35.2%
Johns Hopkins University	11	$95,018	+35.5%
Columbia University	11	$97,797	+33.2%
University of Nebraska Medical Center	9	$60,129	+5.5%
University of Connecticut Health Center	9	$68,000	+10.4%
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School	8	$76,000	+17.0%
Oregon State University	7	$66,861	+45.3%
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania	7	$100,000	+11.3%
Colorado State University	6	$64,905	+31.1%
University of Mississippi Medical Center	6	$107,500	+29.8%
Arkansas State University	5	$65,000	+19.7%
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	5	$70,000	+22.7%
University of Miami	5	$90,000	+46.9%
Harvard University	5	$118,296	+27.8%
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University	5	$52,000	+2.0%

Showing the 25 employers with the most filings of 121. Employers with fewer than 5 filings in total are counted but not named.

Where Instructor jobs are filed

Worksite	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Houston, TX	82	$77,000	+39.4%
New York, NY	66	$97,797	+31.6%
St. Louis, MO	48	$87,000	+27.6%
Daytona Beach, FL	46	$65,354	at the minimum
Dallas, TX	45	$72,000	+38.0%
Bronx, NY	23	$76,500	+26.7%
Stanford, CA	22	$94,000	+16.5%
Birmingham, AL	19	$235,000	+102.4%
Prescott, AZ	16	$77,459	+10.4%
Baltimore, MD	14	$95,035	+35.6%
Atlanta, GA	13	$78,750	+33.5%
Omaha, NE	13	$60,742	+6.0%
Boston, MA	9	$106,884	+28.2%
Farmington, CT	9	$68,000	+10.4%
Worcester, MA	8	$76,000	+17.0%
Philadelphia, PA	7	$100,000	+11.3%
Corvallis, OR	6	$63,437	+29.7%
Fort Collins, CO	6	$64,905	+31.1%
Jackson, MS	6	$107,500	+29.8%
Blacksburg, VA	5	$52,000	+2.0%
New Orleans, LA	5	$70,000	+22.0%
Aurora, CO	4	$65,052	at the minimum
Dekalb, IL	4	$69,031	+44.9%
Durham, NC	4	$62,749	+27.0%
Iowa City, IA	4	$116,625	+38.0%

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry56%

Level II, qualified39%

Level III, experienced4%

Level IV, fully competent1%

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.
80 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.