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Professor: H-1B salaries

452 labor condition applications used the job title Professor. Median offered base salary $180,000; middle half $140,838–$250,000.

Applications (LCAs)452
Median offered salary$180,000
Middle half of salaries$140,838–$250,000
10th–90th percentile$100,079–$325,000

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Employers

EmployerLCAsMedian salary
Cornell University15$270,000
University of Notre Dame du Lac12$180,000
Harvard University11$289,841
Yale University10$236,400
Johns Hopkins University9$219,895
The University of Texas at Austin9$180,000
University of Wisconsin System8$204,251
Wayne State University8$111,100
University of California, Los Angeles8$274,900
University of California at Santa Barbara8$166,100
University of Utah8$165,800
Texas A&M University7$190,000
Columbia University6$369,372
Indiana University6$177,500
University of Illinois6$151,167
University of California, Berkeley6$190,030
Northwestern University6$244,500
University of Rochester6$185,500
Duke University6$358,768
University of Minnesota5$157,500
The Leland Stanford, Jr University5$300,000
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center5$375,311
University of Michigan5$189,405
Michigan State University5$168,040
University of Florida5$163,000
The Pennsylvania State University5$200,016
University of Alabama Health Services Foundation, PC5$325,000
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center5$407,500
Northeastern University4$204,000
University of Maryland Baltimore4$337,500
The Trustees of Princeton University4$287,500
Florida International University4$478,662
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai4$200,000
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey4$191,780
Regents of the University of California at Riverside4$227,900
Baylor College of Medicine4$311,640
The University of Arizona4$198,500
University of California, San Diego3$165,000
Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund3$148,164
Georgia Institute of Technology3$158,000
State University of New York at Binghamton3$149,350
Oklahoma City Community College3$59,036
New York University3$325,000
San Diego State University3$137,004
The Curators of the University of Missouri3$143,912
BOR USGA obo Augusta University3$152,100
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska3$110,296
University of North Carolina at Charlotte3$173,187
University of California, Santa Cruz3$199,600
Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc.3$382,000
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center3—
University of Miami3$155,627
UT Southwestern Medical Center3$200,000
North Carolina State University3$153,672
The Ohio University3$140,000
The University of Alabama at Birmingham3—
University of Houston3$155,000
The University of Virginia3$132,000
Tarleton State University2$120,000
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania2$275,000

By wage level

Wage levelMedian salary
Level I (entry)$170,000
Level II (qualified)$164,000
Level III (experienced)$190,400
Level IV (fully competent)$220,000

The Department of Labor sets four prevailing wage levels for each occupation and area, from Level I (entry) to Level IV (fully competent). The employer picks the level that matches the job's requirements.

By fiscal year

Fiscal yearLCAsMedian salary
FY2023104$172,500
FY2024114$185,000
FY2025117$180,000
FY202675$198,400

Cities

Salaries are the lower end of the wage offered on each application, converted to a yearly amount; statistics use certified full-time applications only. An LCA is not a visa approval and one LCA can cover several positions. Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC LCA Disclosure Data, fiscal years 2023–2026 (latest decision Jun 30, 2026).