Project Scientist H-1B wages

Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026. Most are classified as Biochemists and Biophysicists (SOC 19-1021).

Employers filed 55 wage applications for Project Scientist jobs from July 2025 to June 2026, across 10 employers. The median offered wage was $82,900, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the job. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center filed the most (27, median $77,085).

Filings: 55
Positions covered: 55
Employers: 10
Median offered: $82,900
Median prevailing wage: $79,934
Filings since FY2020: 311
Median offer change since FY2020: +6%

Project Scientist, all employers55 filings, July 2025 to June 2026

$82,900Median wage employers told the government they would pay

$75,787 to $99,736Where the middle half of the filings fall

$79,934Prevailing wage: the legal minimum for these jobs

Offered wage since 2020

The median wage offered for Project Scientist jobs rose 6%, from $75,691 in fiscal 2020 to $80,404 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it sat exactly on the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2022, with 56 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.

Project Scientist by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	44	$80,404	−6.3%	$79,924	at the minimum
2025	47	$85,827	+10.9%	$79,144	at the minimum
2024	49	$77,400	+10.0%	$73,424	+6.6%
2023	50	$70,377	+1.4%	$68,443	+2.0%
2022	56	$69,400	−2.8%	$63,149	+6.1%
2021	28	$71,386	−5.7%	$62,826	at the minimum
2020	37	$75,691	n/a	$64,251	+12.7%

Employers that file for this title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Employer	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	27	$77,085	at the minimum
University of California at Santa Barbara	9	$85,200	at the minimum
Carnegie Mellon University	6	$80,145	+9.1%
Leland Stanford Jr. Univ/SLAC National Accelerator Lab	3	$105,292	+9.4%
University of California, Los Angeles	2	$111,600	at the minimum
University of California, Davis	2	$120,200	+11.6%
Terracon Consultants, Inc.	2	$131,000	+12.6%
Satelytics Inc.	2	$81,500	+22.5%
University of California, Irvine	1	$115,500	at the minimum
Theiss Research	1	$75,800	+20.8%

Where Project Scientist jobs are filed

Worksite	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
Los Angeles, CA	23	$77,085	at the minimum
Santa Barbara, CA	9	$85,200	at the minimum
Pittsburgh, PA	6	$80,145	+9.1%
West Hollywood, CA	3	$85,322	at the minimum
Beverly Hills, CA	2	$85,311	at the minimum
Boston, MA	2	$112,217	+22.5%
Davis, CA	2	$120,200	+11.6%
Menlo Park, CA	2	$97,646	+20.0%
Perrysburg, OH	2	$81,500	+22.5%
Gaithersburg, MD	1	$75,800	+20.8%
Irvine, CA	1	$115,500	at the minimum
Menolo Park, CA	1	$105,293	+9.4%
Olathe, KS	1	$131,000	+11.0%

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry57%

Level II, qualified21%

Level III, experienced14%

Level IV, fully competent7%

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.