Postdoctoral Associate H-1B wages

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

Employers filed 906 wage applications for Postdoctoral Associate jobs from July 2025 to June 2026, across 62 employers. The median offered wage was $68,000, 14.6% above the government's prevailing wage for the job. Massachusetts Institute of Technology filed the most (96, median $71,000).

Filings: 906
Positions covered: 929
Employers: 62
Median offered: $68,000
Median prevailing wage: $59,738
Filings since FY2020: 4,899
Median offer change since FY2020: +25%

Postdoctoral Associate, all employers906 filings, July 2025 to June 2026

$68,000Median wage employers told the government they would pay

$63,968 to $73,000Where the middle half of the filings fall

$59,738Prevailing wage: the legal minimum for these jobs

Offered wage since 2020

The median wage offered for Postdoctoral Associate jobs rose 25%, from $54,756 in fiscal 2020 to $68,498 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 13.4% above the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2025, with 862 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.

Postdoctoral Associate by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	648	$68,498	+2.2%	$61,381	+13.4%
2025	862	$67,000	+3.1%	$56,368	+17.5%
2024	819	$65,000	+6.5%	$53,206	+20.6%
2023	706	$61,011	+7.4%	$48,381	+19.9%
2022	702	$56,802	+2.2%	$48,381	+18.7%
2021	591	$55,596	+1.5%	$46,863	+15.7%
2020	571	$54,756	n/a	$45,614	+17.2%

Employers that file for this title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Employer	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	96	$71,000	+24.3%
Yale University	66	$69,500	+28.2%
University of Pittsburgh	54	$65,528	+22.3%
Cornell University	54	$67,081	+5.3%
Duke University	53	$67,419	+13.7%
Weill Cornell Medical College	46	$79,596	+5.5%
University of Minnesota	44	$62,652	+15.9%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	40	$67,379	+5.3%
New York University	37	$68,698	+17.9%
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University	36	$68,053	+4.9%
University of Maryland College Park	29	$67,750	+18.0%
Trustees of Boston University	28	$70,000	+14.0%
University of Florida	28	$63,616	+22.2%
Research Foundation for the State University of New York	27	$63,800	+1.2%
The Scripps Research Institute	25	$70,304	+32.0%
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School	23	$61,573	+9.3%
W.M. Rice University	21	$63,000	+7.6%
The Broad Institute, Inc.	20	$78,790	+28.3%
University of Rochester	19	$63,000	+2.7%
Georgetown University	18	$71,766	+12.6%
Mississippi State University	15	$64,506	+4.1%
The Rockefeller University	14	$78,885	+11.7%
Brandeis University	13	$66,300	+28.3%
The Jackson Laboratory	12	$65,589	+4.0%
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute	12	$77,168	at the minimum

Showing the 25 employers with the most filings of 62. Employers with fewer than 5 filings in total are counted but not named.

Where Postdoctoral Associate jobs are filed

Worksite	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Cambridge, MA	114	$72,550	+24.3%
New York, NY	100	$75,000	+11.3%
New Haven, CT	65	$69,500	+28.1%
Ithaca, NY	54	$67,081	+5.1%
Pittsburgh, PA	54	$65,528	+22.3%
Durham, NC	52	$67,419	+12.5%
La Jolla, CA	37	$70,304	+25.7%
Blacksburg, VA	27	$68,053	+0.6%
Boston, MA	27	$70,000	+14.0%
Piscataway, NJ	26	$67,787	+6.0%
Minneapolis, MN	25	$61,404	+15.0%
College Park, MD	24	$67,018	+17.9%
Stony Brook, NY	24	$63,900	+2.8%
Worcester, MA	23	$61,573	+9.3%
Houston, TX	21	$62,421	+8.4%
Washington, DC	20	$71,532	+9.3%
Rochester, NY	19	$63,000	+2.7%
St. Paul, MN	18	$62,839	+22.4%
Gainesville, FL	14	$63,500	+19.8%
Waltham, MA	12	$68,650	+28.9%
Miami, FL	8	$62,343	+12.2%
Mississippi State, MS	8	$56,935	at the minimum
New Brunswick, NJ	8	$69,220	+8.2%
Farmington, CT	7	$65,589	+3.1%
Jupiter, FL	7	$65,640	+32.6%

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry87%

Level II, qualified8%

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.
9 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.