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Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists: H-1B salaries

Standard Occupational Classification 19-1042. 19,293 labor condition applications; median offered base salary $72,000, middle half $63,120–$90,000.

Applications (LCAs)19,293

Median offered salary$72,000

Middle half of salaries$63,120–$90,000

10th–90th percentile$57,000–$128,044

By wage level

Wage level	LCAs	Median salary
Level I (entry)	9,923	$66,000
Level II (qualified)	4,446	$81,566
Level III (experienced)	1,190	$123,198
Level IV (fully competent)	803	$158,596

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
Washington University	783	$65,700
Mayo Clinic	558	$69,888
UT Southwestern Medical Center	465	$67,500
National Institutes of Health, HHS	464	$99,500
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	444	$75,000
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	441	$85,000
Columbia University	425	$77,000
General Hospital Corporation	416	$71,406
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania	377	$75,000
University of Michigan	363	$62,000
University of Pittsburgh	356	$65,000
Baylor College of Medicine	356	$66,492
Johns Hopkins University	354	$70,762
The University of Alabama at Birmingham	331	$61,686
NYU Grossman School of Medicine	327	$73,710
Weill Cornell Medical College	311	$71,769
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	302	$76,002
Northwestern University	292	$66,492
The Leland Stanford, Jr University	250	$78,000
University of California, Los Angeles	236	$75,550
Yale University	224	$72,000
Brigham and Women's Hospital	213	$71,406
Emory University	185	$65,598
The University of Virginia	177	$66,246
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center	164	$65,935
Case Western Reserve University	153	$64,368
University of Wisconsin System	140	$63,149
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	140	$65,780
The University of Chicago	128	$69,301
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company	126	$149,000
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	125	$61,318
University of California, San Francisco	118	$80,034
The University of Iowa	118	$67,910
University of Rochester	116	$62,000
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	116	$72,009
BOR USGA obo Augusta University	112	$60,000
University of Utah	109	$69,878
The Methodist Hospital Research Institute	106	$65,343
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center	100	$67,000
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	98	$66,685
University of California, San Diego	98	$78,000
Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope	96	$74,139
The Ohio State University	93	$65,000
University of Miami	91	$65,369
University of Washington	89	$75,636
Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc.	87	$140,200
The Rockefeller University	87	$75,396
Virginia Commonwealth University	87	$63,000
University of Kentucky	87	$61,428
University of Florida	84	$64,761

Cities

Job titles

By fiscal year

Fiscal year	LCAs	Median salary
FY2023	4,670	$67,500
FY2024	4,983	$70,322
FY2025	5,522	$74,008
FY2026	4,118	$75,800

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).