Occupation · SOC 19-1029

Biological Scientists, All Other: H-1B salaries and wage levels

Level IV starts anywhere from $101,234 to $147,014 depending on the city. The median offer is $82,500.

4,663certified H-1B LCAs, Jul 2025 to Jun 2026

$82,500median offer

$70k to $109kmiddle half of offers

15%of new-employment offers reach Level IV for their area

Source U.S. Dept. of Labor, OFLC disclosure files Covers decisions Jul 2025 to Jun 2026 Release FY2026 Q3, published Aug 7, 2026 Wage levels OFLC 2026-27

Wage levels by city

same scale for every row · black mark: median offer in that city

Boston · Cambridge

IV $147k

New York, NY

IV $144k

Dallas, TX

IV $101k

under Level ILevel IIIIIIIV and upmedian offerscale $60k to $154k

City	LCAs	Median	Level I	Level II	Level III	Level IV
Boston, MA	423	$77,267	$77,626	$100,755	$123,885	$147,014
Cambridge, MA	321	$108,000	$77,626	$100,755	$123,885	$147,014
New York, NY	190	$94,382	$82,077	$102,690	$123,323	$143,936
Dallas, TX	105	$70,000	$66,123	$77,834	$89,523	$101,234

What employers offer

4,663 certified LCAs, coloured by the level each salary reaches in its own area

$50k$100k$150k$200k$250k$300k

Level IIIIIIIVunder Level I = 50 LCAs = 50 LCAs

Lottery entries

795 new-employment LCAs

Biological Scientists, All Other 17%26%23%19%15% 795

All employers 12%28%25%18%16% 149,984

1 entry · Level I2 · Level II3 · Level III4 · Level IVunder Level I, still 1 entry

How this is calculated

New-employment H-1B LCAs only, the filings behind most cap petitions; extensions, transfers and amendments do not go through the lottery, and cap-exempt universities and nonprofit research organizations are left out. Each offered salary (low end of the range) is compared with the OFLC Level I to IV wages for its occupation and worksite area, wage year 2026-27; a filing with several worksites counts at its lowest level, as the rule requires. Numbers on the right are LCAs. Full methodology.

Over time

fiscal years, October to September · hatched: year to date

Certified H-1B LCAs

3,530 FY2026 to date

4.1kFY23

4.5kFY24

4.6kFY25

3.5kFY26

Median offer

$83,000 FY2026

$78kFY23

$79kFY24

$80kFY25

$83kFY26

Top employers

Jul 2025 to Jun 2026

#	Employer	Certified LCAs	Median salary
1	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute	121	$76,000
2	The Leland Stanford, Jr University	101	$82,000
3	University of Michigan	92	$65,640
4	UT Southwestern Medical Center	92	$70,000
5	Harvard University	89	$76,000
6	Howard Hughes Medical Institute	79	$85,192
7	Yale University	78	$75,000
8	University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School	73	$68,290
9	Johns Hopkins University	71	$70,344
10	The Broad Institute, Inc.	65	$85,088
11	National Institutes of Health, HHS	64	$108,628
12	Zifo Technologies Inc.	60	$93,884
13	University of Minnesota	55	$70,000
14	Children's Hospital Corporation	54	$77,267
15	St. Jude Children's Research Hospital	52	$86,320
16	Emory University	50	$70,422
17	University of Pittsburgh	48	$64,134
18	University of California, San Francisco	46	$82,836
19	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	44	$69,382
20	H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Inc.	42	$77,543
21	Columbia University	41	$80,340
22	Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Inc.	41	$91,978
23	The Jackson Laboratory	39	$71,000
24	University of Florida	37	$67,188
25	Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	36	$146,917
	All other employers	3,093	–