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Lecturer: H-1B salaries

1,506 labor condition applications used the job title Lecturer. Median offered base salary $70,000; middle half $59,459–$82,000.

Applications (LCAs)1,506

Median offered salary$70,000

Middle half of salaries$59,459–$82,000

10th–90th percentile$52,000–$100,000

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Employers

Employer	LCAs	Median salary
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo	67	$81,612
University of Georgia; OGE	41	$75,000
University of Florida	41	$72,002
The Trustees of Princeton University	40	$81,700
University of California, Berkeley	37	$81,491
University of Oklahoma	36	$64,000
Indiana University	34	$60,000
Cornell University	30	$68,550
Clemson University	30	$71,205
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	29	$75,000
University of Wisconsin System	28	$69,316
Old Dominion University	28	$69,995
The University of Tennessee	27	$51,500
Texas State University	27	$70,000
Washington University	27	$58,000
Rochester Institute of Technology	26	$50,380
Harvard University	26	$100,000
University of California at Santa Barbara	26	$75,301
Purdue University	25	$86,360
State University of New York at Binghamton	23	$65,832
Trustees of Boston University	21	$76,955
Texas A&M University	21	$56,956
University of Maryland College Park	20	$91,800
University of Illinois	20	$64,968
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska	20	$61,236
The University of Vermont	20	$65,698
The Ohio State University	19	$58,908
State University of New York at Stony Brook	18	$77,015
University of North Texas	17	$65,164
Johns Hopkins University	17	$79,520
Howard University	16	$62,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	16	$86,640
Univ of WI System/Platteville	16	$65,000
The University of Southern California	16	$72,000
Georgia State University	16	$82,000
University of California, Davis	15	$76,112
Case Western Reserve University	15	$58,113
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley	14	$50,814
Georgia Institute of Technology	14	$81,000
University of Central Florida	14	$80,000
The University of Virginia	13	$55,850
Baylor University	13	$64,552
Auburn University	13	$69,000
North Carolina State University	12	$50,960
University of California, Los Angeles	12	$76,814
University of California, San Diego	11	$86,899
Yale University	11	$77,500
The Pennsylvania State University	11	$62,172
The Leland Stanford, Jr University	11	$95,000
W.M. Rice University	10	$70,000
Arizona State University	9	$57,500
University of Minnesota	9	$63,213
State University of New York at Buffalo	9	$48,000
University of Georgia	9	$105,000
University of Kentucky	9	$61,890
Texas Tech University	8	$55,000
University of Houston	8	$70,000
The University of Texas at Austin	8	$77,700
The University of Arizona	8	$80,558
Univ of WI System/Stout	8	$53,822

By wage level

Wage level	Median salary
Level I (entry)	$66,610
Level II (qualified)	$77,500
Level III (experienced)	$116,491
Level IV (fully competent)	$175,000

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	313	$67,000
FY2024	373	$68,000
FY2025	365	$71,600
FY2026	275	$73,185

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).