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Historians: H-1B salaries

Standard Occupational Classification 19-3093. 74 labor condition applications; median offered base salary $70,000, middle half $61,256–$81,831.

Applications (LCAs)74
Median offered salary$70,000
Middle half of salaries$61,256–$81,831
10th–90th percentile$54,577–$100,796

By wage level

Wage levelLCAsMedian salary
Level I (entry)28$64,500
Level II (qualified)17$64,000
Level III (experienced)9$80,000
Level IV (fully competent)10$88,907

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

EmployerLCAsMedian salary
The Leland Stanford, Jr University6$99,318
Brandeis University4$73,500
The Trustees of Princeton University4$67,500
Yale University3$67,761
Research Foundation of CUNY3$90,814
The University of Kansas3$62,000
Columbia University3$98,392
Northern Arizona University3$55,200
Boston College2$86,708
Texas Tech University2$81,482
Higgins Quasebarth & Partners, LLC2$66,000
University of California, Los Angeles2$64,480
The Frick Collection2$58,000
University of California, Berkeley2$91,404
SWCA, Inc.2$73,000
Cornell University2$70,504
University of Pittsburgh2$65,000
Michigan State University2$84,448
Lewis H. Latimer Fund, Inc1$80,000
Heinrich Boll Foundation1$78,852
University of Minnesota1$55,000
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania1$56,000
The University of Texas at Austin1$72,000
ClimateWorks Foundation, Inc.1$70,000
Calvin Theological Seminary1—
University of South Florida1$81,600
LANDMARK WEST!, Inc.1$54,863
Massachusetts Historical Society1$63,963
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum1$136,780
The Art Institute of Chicago1$71,739
CANY Architecture Engineering DPC1$87,000
Mississippi Department of Archives and History1$38,155
The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc.1$110,000
Trustees of Amherst College1$50,000
University of California, Davis1$64,480
University of Delaware1$48,000
WanderLens Lab LLC1$60,000
Virginia Historical Society1$70,000
The University of Southern California1$38,646
California Institute of Technology1$108,150
Syracuse University1$60,500
Landmark Preservation LLC1$67,184
Johns Hopkins University1$65,000

Job titles

By fiscal year

Fiscal yearLCAsMedian salary
FY202322$64,480
FY202417$75,000
FY202519$73,000
FY202616$70,000

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).