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Postdoctoral Associate: H-1B salaries

3,036 labor condition applications used the job title Postdoctoral Associate. Median offered base salary $65,589; middle half $60,762–$71,000.

Applications (LCAs)3,036
Median offered salary$65,589
Middle half of salaries$60,762–$71,000
10th–90th percentile$56,000–$78,280

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Employers

EmployerLCAsMedian salary
Massachusetts Institute of Technology297$69,000
Yale University247$66,950
University of Pittsburgh246$61,866
Cornell University217$63,582
Duke University199$63,599
Weill Cornell Medical College185$68,964
Howard Hughes Medical Institute146$78,719
University of Minnesota140$60,000
New York University112$68,000
University of Florida92$60,000
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey79$67,334
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School77$61,572
Trustees of Boston University76$70,000
The Scripps Research Institute74$68,000
The Broad Institute, Inc.67$75,352
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University66$66,000
Research Foundation for the State University of New York61$62,296
University of Maryland College Park56$78,000
Mississippi State University52$53,269
W.M. Rice University50$61,275
The Rockefeller University49$73,550
University of Rochester41$60,000
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute39$67,516
Brandeis University35$62,000
Georgetown University30$71,766
Research Foundation of Suny at Buffalo21$61,000
The Jackson Laboratory21$65,589
Duke University and Health System20$63,000
Institute for Cancer Research20$66,546
Florida International University20$60,000
The University of Vermont19$61,008
The George Washington University15$67,590
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago12$57,845
University of Colorado10$64,996
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research10$75,000
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center7$55,642
Carnegie Mellon University7$68,523
The Research Foundation for SUNY Upstate Medical University7$56,484
Georgia State University6$61,000
State University of New York at Buffalo6$57,062
Virginia Commonwealth University5$57,846
The Research Foundation at SUNY Binghamton5$62,000
State University of New York at Binghamton5$60,000
Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Inc.4$61,082
The Research Foundation for SUNY ESF4$51,576
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Insitute4$62,950
University of Massachusetts Medical School4$54,678
University of Louisville4$53,968
The Research Foundation for SUNY Albany4$63,605
The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College4$64,572
Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund3$55,500
The Research Institute of Fox Chase Cancer Center3$66,228
Indiana University3$56,000
Research Foundation for the State University of New York - Albany3$59,634
Baylor College of Medicine2$60,116
Research Foundation for State University of New York2$58,601
The Research Foundation for SUNY Polytechnic Institute2$57,000
University of Miami2$57,300
The Research Foundation for SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University2$59,455
University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture2$53,733

By wage level

Wage levelMedian salary
Level I (entry)$65,000
Level II (qualified)$74,263
Level III (experienced)$68,824
Level IV (fully competent)$65,870

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
FY2023689$61,013
FY2024788$65,000
FY2025836$67,000
FY2026626$68,492

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).