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Postdoctoral Fellow: H-1B salaries

3,648 labor condition applications used the job title Postdoctoral Fellow. Median offered base salary $63,294; middle half $57,314–$70,077.

Applications (LCAs)3,648
Median offered salary$63,294
Middle half of salaries$57,314–$70,077
10th–90th percentile$53,269–$77,000

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Employers

EmployerLCAsMedian salary
Emory University234$61,008
NYU Grossman School of Medicine231$72,800
Harvard University202$69,160
The University of Texas at Austin163$64,960
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center162$65,900
The Curators of the University of Missouri140$52,998
Georgia Institute of Technology138$60,000
University of Maryland Baltimore131$61,998
Johns Hopkins University123$66,321
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai108$77,821
Indiana University Indianapolis83$62,232
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis75$57,304
Auburn University73$60,000
Northwestern University71$59,832
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies71$74,500
University of Houston66$57,600
BOR USGA obo Augusta University65$57,000
Clemson University65$60,000
University of Connecticut Health Center63$61,008
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory60$72,800
Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund59$60,816
Colorado State University59$60,000
Albert Einstein College of Medicine56$69,480
The Methodist Hospital Research Institute53$64,058
Indiana University48$58,781
Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope47$70,720
Georgetown University31$61,200
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Inc.31$67,018
University of Cincinnati29$60,000
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia27$58,608
The University of Alabama at Birmingham27$54,835
The University of Kansas Medical Center26$62,000
University of South Carolina25$53,040
Carnegie Mellon University24$65,666
Genentech, Inc.23$85,598
University of Texas at San Antonio22$60,466
Virginia Commonwealth University22$60,000
City of Hope National Medical Center22$72,141
University of Texas Medical Branch21$59,784
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc.20$65,000
La Jolla Institute for Immunology20$70,990
Van Andel Research Institute20$72,500
University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture20$54,746
The Curators of the University of Missouri/Missouri University of Science and Technology18$50,000
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley18$53,500
Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc.17$61,527
University of Utah17$63,500
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans16$64,356
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.16$95,997
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center16$65,640
Southern Methodist University14$56,000
New York Society for Relief of Ruptured & Crippled13$71,091
Saint Louis University13$58,712
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania13$73,000
Research Foundation of CUNY11$75,658
University of Colorado Denver10$53,476
University of New Mexico10$58,938
LSU Health Sciences Center - Shreveport10$55,244
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)9$76,000
The University of Toledo8$53,530

By wage level

Wage levelMedian salary
Level I (entry)$62,500
Level II (qualified)$66,492
Level III (experienced)$68,922
Level IV (fully competent)$73,350

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.

By fiscal year

Fiscal yearLCAsMedian salary
FY2023820$59,170
FY2024954$61,596
FY2025985$65,000
FY2026791$67,600

Cities

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).