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Senior Research Scientist: H-1B salaries

778 labor condition applications used the job title Senior Research Scientist. Median offered base salary $103,000; middle half $81,069–$164,403.

Applications (LCAs)778

Median offered salary$103,000

Middle half of salaries$81,069–$164,403

10th–90th percentile$72,904–$220,000

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Employers

Employer	LCAs	Median salary
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	116	$81,500
NVIDIA Corporation	47	$201,094
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School	31	$75,000
NYU Grossman School of Medicine	25	$110,000
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	23	$83,640
Google LLC	16	$231,000
UT Southwestern Medical Center	15	$75,000
University of Pittsburgh	14	$82,510
Trustees of Boston University	12	$105,960
Salesforce, Inc.	12	$249,786
Adesis, Inc.	12	$128,348
Upstart Network, Inc.	10	$176,200
IBM Corporation	10	$260,776
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	9	$79,156
Texas A&M AgriLife Research	8	$93,702
Pindrop Security, Inc.	7	$165,000
Georgia Institute of Technology	6	$88,410
Southwest Research Institute	6	$107,641
Research Foundation for the State University of New York	5	$90,000
Schlumberger Technology Corporation	5	$155,000
American Air Liquide Inc.	5	$111,700
The University of Virginia	5	$69,500
SunHydrogen, Inc.	5	—
Robert Bosch LLC	5	$127,712
MBZUAI Labs USA Inc.	5	$445,000
Northeastern University	4	$90,675
Factory Mutual Insurance Company	4	$124,020
QPS, LLC	4	$102,716
Wayne State University	4	$77,211
Harvard University	4	$165,000
The Research Foundation for SUNY Upstate Medical University	4	$62,500
J-Star Research, Inc.	4	$103,812
Brigham and Women's Hospital	4	$89,102
The University of Texas at Austin	4	$207,000
University of Illinois	4	$99,600
UII America, Inc.	4	$164,114
Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc.	3	$130,000
The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital	3	$68,975
Kansas State University	3	$47,112
Phoenix Tailings Inc.	3	$110,000
Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution Inc.	3	$72,238
The Curators of the University of Missouri	3	$53,810
Curia Global, Inc. (formerly Albany Molecular Research, Inc.)	3	$80,500
Institute for Systems Biology	3	$81,700
BOR USGA obo Augusta University	3	$78,000
Pumpkinseed Technologies, Inc	3	$139,200
Toyota Research Institute (TRI)	3	$235,000
Poseida Therapeutics Inc.	3	$144,200
Norc	3	$130,000
FANUC America Corporation	3	$201,057
Drexel University	3	$78,042
Lehigh University	3	$83,616
United Imaging Healthcare North America, Inc.	3	$113,300
Toyota Research Institute, Inc.	3	$249,312
Government Employee Insurance Company (GEICO)	3	$210,000
IonQ Quantum, Inc.	3	$155,000
Temple University--A Commonwealth University	2	$71,218
Washington University	2	$90,517
Clark Atlanta University	2	$62,445
The George Washington University	2	$120,000

By wage level

Wage level	Median salary
Level I (entry)	$80,000
Level II (qualified)	$90,000
Level III (experienced)	$108,717
Level IV (fully competent)	$153,525

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	178	$90,000
FY2024	174	$103,250
FY2025	190	$100,000
FY2026	195	$123,000

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).