Senior Research Scientist H-1B wages

Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026. Most are classified as Computer and Information Research Scientists (SOC 15-1221).

Employers filed 278 wage applications for Senior Research Scientist jobs from July 2025 to June 2026, across 110 employers. The median offered wage was $113,400, 16.2% above the government's prevailing wage for the job. NVIDIA Corporation filed the most (36, median $201,094).

Filings: 278
Positions covered: 282
Employers: 110
Median offered: $113,400
Median prevailing wage: $91,998
Filings since FY2020: 1,413
Median offer change since FY2020: +17%

Senior Research Scientist, all employers278 filings, July 2025 to June 2026

$113,400Median wage employers told the government they would pay

$85,000 to $195,960Where the middle half of the filings fall

$91,998Prevailing wage: the legal minimum for these jobs

Offered wage since 2020

The median wage offered for Senior Research Scientist jobs rose 17%, from $102,687 in fiscal 2020 to $120,049 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 13.8% above the prevailing wage. Filings peaked in fiscal 2025, with 231 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.

Senior Research Scientist by fiscal year

Fiscal year	Filings	Median offered	vs year before	Median prevailing	vs prevailing
2026 (Oct to Jun)	225	$120,049	+20.0%	$98,478	+13.8%
2025	231	$100,000	−4.1%	$83,699	+21.5%
2024	197	$104,250	+15.8%	$81,495	+13.7%
2023	196	$90,000	no change	$75,005	+11.9%
2022	218	$90,000	+0.9%	$72,894	+14.6%
2021	189	$89,187	−13.1%	$76,669	+10.2%
2020	157	$102,687	n/a	$89,294	+11.5%

Employers that file for this title

Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage

Employer	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
NVIDIA Corporation	36	$201,094	at the minimum
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	28	$88,000	+8.7%
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	15	$89,728	+40.8%
NYU Grossman School of Medicine	10	$95,500	+23.8%
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School	9	$74,825	+3.9%
UT Southwestern Medical Center	9	$77,000	+44.8%
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	7	$80,000	+45.4%
Google LLC	6	$236,000	+54.8%
MBZUAI Labs USA Inc.	6	$445,000	+122.4%
University of Pittsburgh	6	$84,681	+26.7%
Trustees of Boston University	5	$106,920	+29.9%
Research Foundation for the State University of New York	5	$90,000	+7.1%
Adesis, Inc.	5	$128,095	+23.3%
Upstart Network, Inc.	4	$198,650	+67.2%
Robert Bosch, LLC	4	$127,712	at the minimum
IonQ Quantum, Inc.	3	$155,000	+1.0%
IBM Corporation	3	$300,000	+112.2%
Salesforce, Inc.	3	$256,010	+25.8%
Harvard University	3	$150,000	+104.0%
Government Employee Insurance Company (GEICO)	3	$210,000	+6.6%
Mongodb, Inc.	2	$181,796	+18.1%
Schlumberger Technology Corporation	2	$147,121	+22.7%
Hippocratic AI, Inc	2	$260,000	+19.3%
Southwest Research Institute	2	$106,112	+46.3%
Georgia Institute of Technology	2	$102,628	+47.9%

Showing the 25 employers with the most filings of 110. Employers with fewer than 5 filings in total are counted but not named.

Where Senior Research Scientist jobs are filed

Worksite	Filings	Median offered	vs prevailing
New York, NY	49	$90,000	+13.8%
Santa Clara, CA	24	$201,094	at the minimum
Houston, TX	23	$85,850	+43.3%
Boston, MA	14	$122,613	+25.4%
Dallas, TX	10	$76,626	+40.5%
Sunnyvale, CA	10	$275,093	+42.7%
Worcester, MA	9	$74,825	+3.9%
Cambridge, MA	7	$156,650	+12.4%
Seattle, WA	7	$214,178	+28.0%
Palo Alto, CA	6	$252,084	+23.6%
Pittsburgh, PA	6	$84,681	+26.7%
Stony Brook, NY	5	$90,000	+7.1%
Atlanta, GA	4	$102,628	+16.3%
College Station, TX	4	$102,614	+41.4%
New Castle, DE	4	$127,784	+26.0%
Philadelphia, PA	4	$76,357	+3.3%
San Jose, CA	4	$196,547	+8.4%
Mercer Island, WA	3	$210,000	+6.6%
Mountain View, CA	3	$236,000	+17.4%
Pasadena, CA	3	$184,018	+0.3%
San Francisco, CA	3	$233,000	+73.7%
Somerville, MA	3	$119,808	at the minimum
Boulder, CO	2	$90,000	+38.2%
Columbus, OH	2	$105,624	+32.3%
Cranbury, NJ	2	$108,138	+10.6%

Seniority of the jobs filed

Level I, entry13%

Level II, qualified35%

Level III, experienced34%

Level IV, fully competent17%

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.
10 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.