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Microbiologists: H-1B salaries

Standard Occupational Classification 19-1022. 1,489 labor condition applications; median offered base salary $70,012, middle half $61,423–$85,740.

Applications (LCAs)1,489

Median offered salary$70,012

Middle half of salaries$61,423–$85,740

10th–90th percentile$55,510–$110,000

By wage level

Wage level	LCAs	Median salary
Level I (entry)	527	$61,572
Level II (qualified)	330	$72,900
Level III (experienced)	281	$76,000
Level IV (fully competent)	128	$104,325

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
Albert Einstein College of Medicine	45	$70,000
Emory University	38	$68,944
University of Wisconsin System	34	$61,423
Yale University	24	$69,500
University of Georgia	24	$59,542
The Pennsylvania State University	23	$61,008
The University of Chicago	23	$62,232
The Ohio State University	22	$62,685
University of Michigan	21	$61,572
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	20	$73,410
University of Minnesota	19	$61,290
Johns Hopkins University	18	$74,000
The Leland Stanford, Jr University	16	$77,688
Harvard University	16	$76,000
Colorado State University	14	$65,144
University of Maryland College Park	14	$61,285
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania	13	$68,814
National Institutes of Health, HHS	13	$107,656
NYU Grossman School of Medicine	13	$74,200
University of California, Berkeley	12	$81,435
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	12	$78,234
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	11	$73,861
Washington State University	11	$58,188
University of California, San Francisco	11	$80,000
Cornell University	11	$65,383
Texas A&M University	11	$60,671
Oregon Health & Science University	11	$84,227
Ut-Battelle, LLC (oak Ridge National Laboratory)	10	$83,556
University of Colorado	10	$63,303
University of Illinois	10	$60,000
University of Colorado Denver	10	$59,966
The Curators of the University of Missouri	10	$55,000
Brown University	9	$65,364
University of Maryland Baltimore	9	$70,344
Tufts University	9	$68,604
Howard Hughes Medical Institute	9	$78,000
Research Foundation of Suny at Buffalo	9	$65,000
New York Structural Biology Center	9	$113,300
University of Texas Medical Branch	9	$68,964
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	9	$88,900
Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC	9	$123,084
Columbia University	9	$78,155
A & B Environmental Services, Inc.	9	$60,000
Research Foundation for the State University of New York	8	$63,525
University of Pittsburgh	8	$59,370
Purdue University	8	$63,500
University of Georgia; OGE	8	$67,000
University of California, Davis	8	$71,290
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University	8	$64,084
University of Washington	8	$79,254

Cities

Job titles

By fiscal year

Fiscal year	LCAs	Median salary
FY2023	414	$65,350
FY2024	381	$68,000
FY2025	401	$72,000
FY2026	293	$75,000

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).