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Electrical Engineers, R&D: H-1B salaries

Standard Occupational Classification 17-2074. 817 labor condition applications; median offered base salary $87,880, middle half $70,825–$108,857.

Applications (LCAs)817

Median offered salary$87,880

Middle half of salaries$70,825–$108,857

10th–90th percentile$60,000–$130,237

By wage level

Wage level	LCAs	Median salary
Level I (entry)	163	$65,000
Level II (qualified)	197	$85,617
Level III (experienced)	242	$94,160
Level IV (fully competent)	124	$106,350

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.

Employers

Employer	LCAs	Median salary
Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC	84	$92,021
Battelle Memorial Institute	65	$117,071
Ut-Battelle, LLC (oak Ridge National Laboratory)	59	$117,060
Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.	52	$83,860
Brookhaven National Laboratory	40	$110,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	22	$71,663
UChicago Argonne LLC	19	$95,738
The Trustees of Princeton University	18	$65,000
Georgia Institute of Technology	16	$75,000
University of Colorado	15	$83,945
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University	13	$85,000
The University of Virginia	13	$80,000
The Ohio State University	12	$78,760
The University of Southern California	12	$70,158
Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC	11	$126,000
California Institute of Technology/Jet Propulsion Laboratory	11	$130,104
Alliance for Energy Innovation, LLC	11	$104,168
National Radio Astronomy Observatory	10	$78,806
The Curators of the University of Missouri/Missouri University of Science and Technology	9	$48,000
University of Michigan	9	$98,672
The Leland Stanford, Jr University	9	$87,550
Colorado State University	9	$79,550
The University of Texas at Austin	9	$131,000
Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC	9	$91,950
W.M. Rice University	8	$75,000
Fermi Research Alliance, LLC	8	$80,400
University of Wisconsin System	8	$57,500
NYU Grossman School of Medicine	8	$73,616
General Hospital Corporation	8	$76,096
Duke University and Health System	7	$65,000
Cornell University	7	$65,966
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station	7	$70,000
Michigan State University	6	$107,166
University of Maryland College Park	6	$88,303
Arizona State University	6	$79,518
Iowa State University of Science and Technology	6	$85,250
University of Oklahoma	6	$52,500
Clemson University	6	$68,426
University of California, Berkeley	6	$76,190
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania	6	$67,000
Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. (EPRI)	5	$86,050
The Catholic University of America	5	$91,000
The Research Foundation for SUNY Polytechnic Institute	5	$126,797
New York University	5	$80,250
University of St. Thomas	5	$45,947
Northeastern University	5	$75,000
Leland Stanford Jr. Univ/SLAC National Accelerator Lab	5	$130,000
University of California, Davis	4	$92,650
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	4	$89,202
The Pennsylvania State University	4	$60,000

Cities

Job titles

By fiscal year

Fiscal year	LCAs	Median salary
FY2023	240	$82,500
FY2024	212	$87,360
FY2025	226	$90,063
FY2026	139	$94,100

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).