Professor H-1B wages

Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026. Most are classified as Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary (SOC 25-1071).

Employers filed 111 wage applications for Professor jobs from July 2025 to June 2026, across 77 employers. The median offered wage was $180,000, 104.1% above the government's prevailing wage for the job. The University of Texas at Austin filed the most (6, median $180,000).

Filings: 111
Positions covered: 118
Employers: 77
Median offered: $180,000
Median prevailing wage: $99,595
Filings since FY2020: 714
Median offer change since FY2020: +17%

Professor, all employers111 filings, July 2025 to June 2026

$180,000Median wage employers told the government they would pay

$144,728 to $246,850Where the middle half of the filings fall

$99,595Prevailing wage: the legal minimum for these jobs

Offered wage since 2020

The median wage offered for Professor jobs rose 17%, from $170,771 in fiscal 2020 to $199,000 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 104.1% above the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2024, with 132 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.

Professor by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	78	$199,000	+10.6%	$100,487	+104.1%
2025	128	$180,000	+1.3%	$85,090	+110.8%
2024	132	$177,641	+4.6%	$90,994	+91.1%
2023	114	$169,771	−3.0%	$90,735	+87.7%
2022	86	$175,000	no change	$90,297	+82.8%
2021	97	$175,000	+2.5%	$83,383	+90.2%
2020	79	$170,771	n/a	$75,030	+118.0%

Employers that file for this title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Employer	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
The University of Texas at Austin	6	$180,000	+267.4%
University of California at Santa Barbara	4	$174,050	+57.1%
University of Notre Dame du Lac	4	$198,400	+189.4%
University of Michigan	3	$189,405	+47.3%
University of Illinois	3	$151,167	+145.4%
Columbia University	3	$400,000	+271.5%
University of Rochester	2	$200,000	+80.7%
Weill Cornell Medical College	2	$180,000	+28.8%
Fort Hays State University	2	$78,099	+68.8%
University of California, Los Angeles	2	$291,900	+194.0%
North Carolina State University	2	$153,543	+17.5%
The Curators of the University of Missouri	2	$186,400	+162.8%
University of North Carolina at Charlotte	2	$174,094	+327.3%
University of Miami	2	$202,814	+165.6%
Yale University	2	$355,700	+154.2%
Regents of the University of California at Riverside	2	$240,800	+129.3%
University of Utah	2	$168,300	+202.0%
Johns Hopkins University	2	$239,895	+130.7%
Harvard University	2	$288,400	+153.2%
University of California, Santa Cruz	2	$206,850	at the minimum
The Trustees of Princeton University	2	$297,072	+169.4%
Lincoln Memorial University	2	$117,500	+23.8%
Cornell University	2	$256,640	+30.4%
University of Nebraska Medical Center	1	$150,100	+79.0%
The University of Texas El Paso	1	$148,135	+17.3%

Showing the 25 employers with the most filings of 77. Employers with fewer than 5 filings in total are counted but not named.

Where Professor jobs are filed

Worksite	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Austin, TX	6	$180,000	+267.4%
New York, NY	6	$300,000	+145.8%
Notre Dame, IN	4	$198,400	+189.4%
Santa Barbara, CA	4	$174,050	+57.1%
Ann Arbor, MI	3	$189,405	+47.3%
Baltimore, MD	3	$259,895	+149.9%
Boston, MA	3	$205,889	+61.1%
Birmingham, AL	2	$414,004	+334.0%
Cambridge, MA	2	$294,200	+204.3%
Champaign, IL	2	$140,584	+102.5%
Charlotte, NC	2	$174,094	+327.3%
Chicago, IL	2	$216,914	+61.1%
Columbia, MO	2	$186,400	+162.8%
Coral Gables, FL	2	$202,814	+165.6%
Hays, KS	2	$78,099	+68.8%
Ithaca, NY	2	$256,640	+30.4%
Los Angeles, CA	2	$291,900	+194.0%
New Haven, CT	2	$355,700	+154.2%
Omaha, NE	2	$122,346	+74.9%
Princeton, NJ	2	$297,072	+169.4%
Raleigh, NC	2	$153,543	+17.5%
Riverside, CA	2	$240,800	+129.3%
Rochester, NY	2	$200,000	+80.7%
Salt Lake City, UT	2	$168,300	+202.0%
Santa Cruz, CA	2	$206,850	at the minimum

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry31%

Level II, qualified23%

Level III, experienced22%

Level IV, fully competent25%

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.