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Staff Scientist: H-1B salaries

1,437 labor condition applications used the job title Staff Scientist. Median offered base salary $75,000; middle half $65,610–$101,513.

Applications (LCAs)1,437
Median offered salary$75,000
Middle half of salaries$65,610–$101,513
10th–90th percentile$60,221–$125,000

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Employers

EmployerLCAsMedian salary
Washington University362$64,800
National Institutes of Health, HHS217$120,579
Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope99$80,443
The Scripps Research Institute77$78,000
Albert Einstein College of Medicine63$75,000
The University of Chicago60$75,000
Baylor College of Medicine57$71,820
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center44$93,934
University of Rochester35$60,000
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute30$75,587
City of Hope National Medical Center24$84,738
California Institute of Technology22$80,000
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center21$65,387
Vanderbilt University Medical Center19$72,583
Children's Hospital Corporation19$90,000
Oregon Health & Science University16$100,516
University of Florida15$69,000
Leland Stanford Jr. Univ/SLAC National Accelerator Lab15$148,000
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans13$60,000
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia11$87,558
The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology10$77,000
Vanderbilt University9$75,000
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies8$79,600
The Forsyth Institute7$54,392
Children's National Medical Center7$76,182
Georgetown University7$69,971
Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC7$197,169
Corning Research & Development Corporation7$123,434
Sirius XM Radio Inc.6$220,000
The Translational Genomics Research Institute5$68,737
Benaroya Research Institute5$93,349
Illumina, Inc.5$118,200
Stanford University/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory4$110,700
Buck Institute for Research on Aging4$66,805
Washington State University4$66,000
Geisinger Clinic4$63,523
University of Notre Dame du Lac4$54,246
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc.4$73,203
Washington University in St. Louis3$70,000
The New York Stem Cell Foundation, Inc.3$83,140
New York Genome Center, Inc.3$98,000
NexTech Batteries, Inc.3$77,360
La Jolla Institute for Immunology3$84,843
Sanford Laboratories for Innovative Medicines3$105,000
Southern Microbiological Services, LLC3$75,000
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center3$70,524
UT Southwestern Medical Center3$91,872
Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason2$82,689
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Insitute2$62,005
Retina Foundation of the Southwest2$65,000
Dexcom, Inc.2$144,355
Latitude AI, LLC2$237,210
Carnegie Institution for Science2$161,000
Orion Medicines, Inc.2$200,000
Eurofins EAG Agroscience, LLC2$69,344
Michigan State University2$125,275
Inomagen Therapeutics, Inc2—
Axle Informatics LLC2$120,579
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home2$80,000
Guidehouse Digital LLC2$121,785

By wage level

Wage levelMedian salary
Level I (entry)$65,000
Level II (qualified)$80,392
Level III (experienced)$112,015
Level IV (fully competent)$123,827

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
FY2023303$70,720
FY2024360$75,000
FY2025389$75,684
FY2026323$79,000

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).