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Associate Professor: H-1B salaries

1,256 labor condition applications used the job title Associate Professor. Median offered base salary $126,624; middle half $98,246–$165,000.

Applications (LCAs)1,256

Median offered salary$126,624

Middle half of salaries$98,246–$165,000

10th–90th percentile$77,939–$255,809

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Employers

Employer	LCAs	Median salary
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	23	$153,696
Yale University	22	$199,500
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences	19	$384,000
Johns Hopkins University	17	$162,600
Texas A&M University	17	$132,548
The Pennsylvania State University	17	$141,108
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska	17	$76,426
The University of Alabama at Birmingham	16	$140,000
Georgia Institute of Technology	14	$132,000
University of Minnesota	14	$126,575
Columbia University	14	$180,000
North Carolina State University	14	$126,766
Emory University	13	$201,862
The University of Virginia	13	$100,000
University of Illinois	12	$118,736
Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc.	12	$393,663
University of Pittsburgh	11	$129,070
Trustees of Boston University	11	$141,829
Baylor College of Medicine	11	$256,885
Wayne State University	11	$104,000
Arizona State University	11	$120,000
University of Utah	11	$196,834
University of Colorado Denver	11	$133,690
Washington University	11	$214,500
UT Southwestern Medical Center	10	$230,000
Purdue University	10	$153,500
Northwestern University	10	$147,858
Indiana University	10	$131,348
University of Michigan	9	$115,804
Duke University	9	$239,100
University of Notre Dame du Lac	9	$130,000
Cornell University	9	$140,000
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	9	$196,000
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center	9	$137,670
The University of Chicago	8	$227,188
University of Alabama Health Services Foundation, PC	8	$528,892
University of California, Berkeley	8	$138,700
University of Florida	8	$147,100
University of Maryland College Park	8	$137,404
University of Kentucky	8	$125,196
The Ohio State University	8	$107,377
Michigan State University	8	$130,000
University of Miami	8	$144,765
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania	8	$245,950
University of Guam	7	$89,199
The University of Iowa	7	$137,887
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	7	$180,000
Iowa State University of Science and Technology	7	$102,681
Mississippi State University	7	$94,095
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo	7	$107,874
The University of Texas at Austin	7	$127,000
San Jose State University	6	$125,004
University of Oklahoma	6	$104,178
University of Maryland, Baltimore County	6	$111,429
The University of Tennessee	6	$100,576
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis	6	$129,336
New York University	6	$126,274
University of California, San Diego	6	$133,500
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	6	$180,000
University of California, Davis	6	$207,800

By wage level

Wage level	Median salary
Level I (entry)	$112,884
Level II (qualified)	$130,000
Level III (experienced)	$147,812
Level IV (fully competent)	$205,169

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 year	LCAs	Median salary
FY2023	257	$121,000
FY2024	296	$121,243
FY2025	360	$130,000
FY2026	275	$134,505

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).