Postdoctoral Fellow H-1B wages

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

Employers filed 1,104 wage applications for Postdoctoral Fellow jobs from July 2025 to June 2026, across 131 employers. The median offered wage was $67,000, 13.0% above the government's prevailing wage for the job. Emory University filed the most (75, median $64,000).

Filings: 1,104
Positions covered: 1,119
Employers: 131
Median offered: $67,000
Median prevailing wage: $56,597
Filings since FY2020: 5,930
Median offer change since FY2020: +28%

Postdoctoral Fellow, all employers1,104 filings, July 2025 to June 2026

$67,000Median wage employers told the government they would pay

$61,428 to $73,789Where the middle half of the filings fall

$56,597Prevailing wage: the legal minimum for these jobs

Offered wage since 2020

The median wage offered for Postdoctoral Fellow jobs rose 28%, from $53,000 in fiscal 2020 to $67,600 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 13.0% above the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2025, with 1,004 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 Fellow by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	819	$67,600	+4.0%	$56,867	+13.0%
2025	1,004	$65,000	+5.5%	$56,368	+13.1%
2024	978	$61,596	+4.0%	$53,206	+13.4%
2023	847	$59,200	+4.4%	$48,381	+16.5%
2022	894	$56,712	+1.7%	$48,381	+15.4%
2021	686	$55,765	+5.2%	$49,130	+12.8%
2020	702	$53,000	n/a	$45,822	+14.4%

Employers that file for this title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Employer	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Emory University	75	$64,000	+20.3%
Johns Hopkins University	67	$69,039	+11.5%
Harvard University	64	$70,304	+19.0%
NYU Grossman School of Medicine	61	$79,500	+21.0%
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	56	$72,000	+29.5%
The Curators of the University of Missouri	53	$56,659	+2.9%
The University of Texas at Austin	53	$65,000	+22.0%
Georgia Institute of Technology	41	$63,000	+14.2%
Indiana University Indianapolis	37	$63,450	+13.7%
University of Maryland Baltimore	33	$65,000	+6.7%
Auburn University	32	$60,000	+2.9%
Albert Einstein College of Medicine	31	$70,000	+4.6%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	31	$80,415	at the minimum
BOR USGA obo Augusta University	26	$59,786	+6.2%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	20	$74,300	+13.0%
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Inc.	19	$69,805	+44.2%
Clemson University	17	$61,200	+11.2%
Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund	17	$70,000	+14.8%
Indiana University	16	$56,484	+3.6%
Colorado State University	16	$62,325	+19.8%
University of Houston	16	$61,481	+8.4%
University of Cincinnati	15	$62,000	+25.4%
The Methodist Hospital Research Institute	14	$66,276	+18.7%
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies	14	$78,541	+2.8%
University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture	10	$51,510	+0.7%

Showing the 25 employers with the most filings of 131. Employers with fewer than 5 filings in total are counted but not named.

Where Postdoctoral Fellow jobs are filed

Worksite	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Atlanta, GA	116	$63,560	+17.6%
New York, NY	103	$79,549	+12.9%
Baltimore, MD	94	$68,000	+8.0%
Houston, TX	86	$67,900	+25.7%
Cambridge, MA	53	$70,304	+18.3%
Austin, TX	52	$65,000	+22.4%
Columbia, MO	51	$56,659	+2.9%
Indianapolis, IN	39	$62,802	+13.1%
Auburn, AL	31	$60,000	+3.2%
Bronx, NY	31	$70,000	+4.6%
Augusta, GA	26	$59,786	+6.2%
New Orleans, LA	23	$66,360	+19.5%
Cold Spring Harbor, NY	20	$74,300	+13.0%
La Jolla, CA	20	$78,541	+1.2%
Tampa, FL	19	$69,805	+44.2%
Cincinnati, OH	15	$62,000	+25.4%
Fort Collins, CO	15	$62,650	+20.4%
Bloomington, IN	14	$56,100	+3.9%
Boston, MA	10	$69,500	+33.1%
Chicago, IL	9	$65,714	+11.8%
Clemson, SC	9	$58,840	+6.3%
Duarte, CA	9	$74,322	+39.5%
Farmington, CT	9	$61,760	+2.0%
Pittsburgh, PA	9	$67,829	+6.6%
Fayetteville, AR	8	$51,510	+0.7%

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry92%

Level II, qualified6%

Level III, experienced2%

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.
7 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.