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Research Associate: H-1B salaries

4,911 labor condition applications used the job title Research Associate. Median offered base salary $69,782; middle half $60,506–$79,856.

Applications (LCAs)4,911

Median offered salary$69,782

Middle half of salaries$60,506–$79,856

10th–90th percentile$53,405–$92,925

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Employers

Employer	LCAs	Median salary
Johns Hopkins University	272	$70,000
Harvard University	241	$80,000
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania	225	$75,000
Mayo Clinic	192	$73,923
The University of Virginia	189	$62,000
Northwestern University	188	$69,465
Michigan State University	164	$59,940
The University of Texas at Austin	142	$80,000
Weill Cornell Medical College	134	$75,000
Cornell University	105	$75,145
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	101	$78,676
The University of Southern California	87	$68,000
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	85	$64,188
Oregon State University	78	$65,004
UT Southwestern Medical Center	75	$55,328
University of Maryland Baltimore	72	$76,064
The Rockefeller University	63	$76,491
Research Foundation of CUNY	59	$68,604
The University of Texas at Dallas	57	$56,780
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center	51	$62,752
Case Western Reserve University	50	$64,000
Howard Hughes Medical Institute	49	$69,500
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	49	$82,694
Fermi Research Alliance, LLC	48	$65,000
NYU Grossman School of Medicine	46	$59,360
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University	45	$75,000
University of Utah	44	$74,985
Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC	36	$66,700
North Carolina State University	35	$62,858
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	34	$62,338
Leland Stanford Jr. Univ/SLAC National Accelerator Lab	32	$78,853
Indiana University	31	$66,436
Baylor College of Medicine	31	$70,000
Wayne State University	30	$57,928
University of South Florida	28	$63,018
University of Colorado Denver	28	$63,876
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	27	$60,445
Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope	26	$66,536
University of Cincinnati	24	$60,000
BOR USGA obo Augusta University	24	$46,682
Bernstein Institutional Services LLC	24	$116,624
The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital	21	$48,000
Texas A&M University	21	$47,592
University of Oregon	21	$64,106
Cornerstone Research, Inc.	21	$160,000
National Economic Research Associates, Inc.	20	$89,000
The Methodist Hospital Research Institute	19	$69,451
Washington State University	19	$59,946
University of Oklahoma	19	$62,000
City of Hope National Medical Center	19	$64,480
Purdue University	18	$67,018
Baptist Health South Florida, Inc.	18	$70,000
Carnegie Mellon University	18	$61,008
Texas A&M AgriLife Research	17	$47,432
Genista Biosciences Inc.	17	$82,000
Clemson University	16	$68,425
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	15	$52,104
Brookhaven National Laboratory	15	$85,000
Health Research Inc. - Roswell Park Division	14	$57,584
University of Pittsburgh	14	$62,000

By wage level

Wage level	Median salary
Level I (entry)	$66,000
Level II (qualified)	$72,789
Level III (experienced)	$74,940
Level IV (fully competent)	$87,528

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	1,195	$65,000
FY2024	1,196	$68,000
FY2025	1,285	$71,000
FY2026	928	$73,790

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).