Post Doctoral Fellow H-1B wages

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

Employers filed 104 wage applications for Post Doctoral Fellow jobs from July 2025 to June 2026, across 38 employers. The median offered wage was $62,842, 6.0% above the government's prevailing wage for the job. University of Colorado Denver filed the most (11, median $53,893).

Filings: 104
Positions covered: 102
Employers: 38
Median offered: $62,842
Median prevailing wage: $57,379
Filings since FY2020: 815
Median offer change since FY2020: +24%

Post Doctoral Fellow, all employers104 filings, July 2025 to June 2026

$62,842Median wage employers told the government they would pay

$57,791 to $67,829Where the middle half of the filings fall

$57,379Prevailing wage: the legal minimum for these jobs

Offered wage since 2020

The median wage offered for Post Doctoral Fellow jobs rose 24%, from $50,767 in fiscal 2020 to $62,802 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 7.4% above the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2022, with 160 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.

Post Doctoral Fellow by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	69	$62,802	+0.9%	$57,720	+7.4%
2025	116	$62,232	+8.6%	$55,328	+6.8%
2024	102	$57,325	+3.5%	$53,206	+2.1%
2023	130	$55,381	+0.7%	$49,754	+9.1%
2022	160	$54,995	+2.3%	$48,942	+9.8%
2021	123	$53,760	+5.9%	$46,634	+14.0%
2020	115	$50,767	n/a	$44,491	+11.3%

Employers that file for this title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Employer	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
University of Colorado Denver	11	$53,893	at the minimum
Wayne State University	10	$56,952	+1.9%
The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology	9	$66,000	+8.0%
Worcester Polytechnic Institute	8	$64,992	+15.8%
University of Alaska	7	$66,560	+18.9%
Virginia Commonwealth University	7	$63,848	+7.4%
Henry Ford Health System	6	$66,737	+7.2%
Amgen Inc.	4	$94,029	+15.8%
University of New Mexico	4	$58,042	+5.4%
Cleveland State University	3	$57,783	+5.8%
Indiana University	3	$62,802	+2.2%
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences	3	$62,232	+15.6%
Oklahoma State University	2	$57,107	at the minimum
University of Utah	2	$88,500	+43.5%
Boston College	2	$70,040	+14.1%
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab	1	$126,492	+86.1%
Rollins College	1	$60,000	+18.1%
J. Craig Venter Institute, Inc.	1	$70,886	at the minimum
University of Arkansas	1	$50,500	+0.9%
The Translational Genomics Research Institute	1	$63,856	at the minimum
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago	1	$63,960	at the minimum
Child Mind Institute, Inc.	1	$70,000	+0.2%
Vitalant	1	$71,053	at the minimum
University of North Dakota	1	$57,816	+7.4%
Tufts Medical Center, Inc.	1	$61,008	+18.0%

Showing the 25 employers with the most filings of 38. Employers with fewer than 5 filings in total are counted but not named.

Where Post Doctoral Fellow jobs are filed

Worksite	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Detroit, MI	16	$64,376	+6.1%
Philadelphia, PA	10	$65,250	+6.7%
Aurora, CO	9	$56,514	at the minimum
Worcester, MA	8	$64,992	+15.8%
Richmond, VA	7	$63,848	+7.4%
Albuquerque, NM	4	$58,042	+5.4%
Fairbanks, AK	4	$66,779	+25.5%
Little Rock, AR	4	$59,084	+9.7%
Bloomington, IN	3	$62,802	+2.2%
Cleveland, OH	3	$57,783	+5.8%
Thousand Oaks, CA	3	$95,557	+22.6%
Chestnut Hill, MA	2	$70,040	+14.1%
Salt Lake City, UT	2	$88,500	+43.5%
Shreveport, LA	2	$61,428	+9.3%
Stillwater, OK	2	$57,107	at the minimum
Anchorage, AK	1	$51,733	at the minimum
Aurora, MN	1	$53,206	at the minimum
Boston, MA	1	$61,008	+18.0%
Chattanooga, TN	1	$64,168	+7.9%
Chicago, IL	1	$63,960	at the minimum
Dekalb, IL	1	$43,993	+4.0%
Denver, CO	1	$51,688	at the minimum
Fayetteville, AR	1	$50,500	+0.9%
Grand Forks, ND	1	$57,816	+7.4%
Gulf Breeze, FL	1	$56,077	at the minimum

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry80%

Level II, qualified16%

Level III, experienced4%

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.
1 filing is 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.