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Postdoctoral Research Fellow: H-1B salaries

1,691 labor condition applications used the job title Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Median offered base salary $61,999; middle half $57,300–$67,018.

Applications (LCAs)1,691

Median offered salary$61,999

Middle half of salaries$57,300–$67,018

10th–90th percentile$54,935–$73,564

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Employers

Employer	LCAs	Median salary
University of Michigan	785	$61,008
Johns Hopkins University	314	$63,375
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	86	$61,572
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center	63	$72,469
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center	51	$61,008
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio	49	$60,440
Harvard University	38	$71,932
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc.	38	$65,000
George Mason University	32	$77,508
North Dakota State University	20	$53,100
The Trustees of Princeton University	14	$72,350
Northeastern University	11	$85,530
Children's Hospital Los Angeles	11	$81,400
HMH Hospitals Corporation	10	$64,434
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania	9	$65,500
Tufts Medical Center, Inc.	9	$65,000
University of Oklahoma	8	$53,543
Children's National Medical Center	7	$66,839
Colorado Seminary	7	$53,893
University of Mississippi Medical Center	7	$61,008
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home	6	$67,108
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Inc.	6	$63,086
Boston College	6	$68,822
Winifred Masterson Burke Medical Research Institute	4	$62,000
Virginia Commonwealth University	4	$55,854
Wake Forest University Health Sciences	4	$60,445
Brigham and Women's Hospital	4	$70,703
Marquette University	4	$62,000
Wake Forest University	4	$53,310
Kennedy Krieger Institute	3	$64,356
New York Blood Center	3	$81,884
Tufts University	3	$66,174
The College of William and Mary	3	$61,500
Wayne State University	2	$59,920
Texas A&M AgriLife Research	2	$56,304
Barnard College	2	$60,000
University of Utah	2	$62,562
Sonoval LLC	2	—
West Virginia University	2	$70,000
Rochester Institute of Technology	2	$51,293
Texas A&M University	2	$55,000
University of New Mexico	2	$56,880
University of Rhode Island	2	$58,618
University of Massachusetts Boston	2	$66,194
University of North Carolina at Charlotte	2	$56,795
LSU - Pennington Biomedical Research Center	2	$61,008
The University of Toledo	2	$52,338
San Diego State University	2	$65,004
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houstoon	1	$56,000
Pacific Neuroscience Institute Foundation	1	$70,000
University of Louisiana at Lafayette	1	$48,000
Teachers College, Columbia University	1	$60,000
University of North Texas	1	$51,954
Morehouse School of Medicine	1	$62,296
Vanderbilt University Medical Center	1	$54,840
Northeastern University – Boston Campus	1	$77,834
The Carnegie Institution of Washington	1	$65,042
San Diego State University Research Foundation	1	$56,100
Carnegie Mellon University	1	$80,000
Wright State University	1	$63,000

By wage level

Wage level	Median salary
Level I (entry)	$61,884
Level II (qualified)	$67,728
Level III (experienced)	$68,964
Level IV (fully competent)	$60,000

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 year	LCAs	Median salary
FY2023	459	$57,300
FY2024	411	$61,008
FY2025	427	$63,120
FY2026	341	$65,640

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).