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Geographers: H-1B salaries

Standard Occupational Classification 19-3092. 254 labor condition applications; median offered base salary $72,072, middle half $64,480–$87,420.

Applications (LCAs)254

Median offered salary$72,072

Middle half of salaries$64,480–$87,420

10th–90th percentile$59,209–$113,268

By wage level

Wage level	LCAs	Median salary
Level I (entry)	101	$65,000
Level II (qualified)	48	$75,598
Level III (experienced)	40	$99,005
Level IV (fully competent)	17	$113,464

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
University of Maryland College Park	37	$88,400
University of Colorado	12	$62,500
University of Georgia; OGE	8	$65,000
Battelle Memorial Institute	7	$112,000
Michigan State University	7	$66,036
Cbre, Inc.	7	$70,500
University of Oklahoma	6	$60,400
The University of Alabama	6	$75,000
University of Connecticut	6	$73,000
Arizona State University	5	$69,750
Brown University	5	$64,356
Columbia University	5	$75,000
The University of Tennessee	4	$66,704
HDR Engineering, Inc.	4	$80,184
CDM Smith Inc.	3	$78,187
Cornell University	3	$61,444
Formation Environmental LLC	3	$65,770
The University of Toledo	3	$67,964
Research Foundation of Suny at Buffalo	3	$67,038
Univ of WI System	3	$56,108
West Virginia University	3	$82,500
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska	3	$59,382
University of California at Santa Barbara	3	$77,250
Bayro LLC	3	—
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania	2	$74,485
The University of Virginia	2	$61,050
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	2	$73,507
California Institute of Technology/Jet Propulsion Laboratory	2	$140,200
World Resources Institute	2	$124,285
NVIDIA Corporation	2	$70,616
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis	2	$60,194
University of Idaho	2	$58,621
The University of Arizona	2	$63,242
The Florida State University	2	$65,605
Data Vision Group, LLC	2	$167,525
University of Maryland, Baltimore County	2	$58,500
Texas State University	2	$55,934
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley	2	$61,044
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.	2	$98,218
Aurora Operations, Inc.	2	$131,000
Woodwell Climate Research Center, Inc.	2	$80,762
WSP USA Inc.	2	$94,234
George Mason University	2	$88,984
Regents of the University of California at Riverside	2	$64,480
New Mexico State University	2	$65,000
University of Michigan	2	$65,498
Moody's Analytics, Inc.	2	$141,032
Wonderful Orchards LLC	2	$113,464
Geoconvergence, LLC	2	$98,010
The Curators of the University of Missouri	1	$56,389

Cities

Riverdale, MD$92,000

Job titles

By fiscal year

Fiscal year	LCAs	Median salary
FY2023	58	$65,000
FY2024	67	$70,990
FY2025	70	$73,018
FY2026	59	$86,635

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).