Lecturer H-1B Salary

1,360 certified H-1B filings list the job title Lecturer (FY2023–FY2026). The median offered base salary is $70,000; the middle half of filings fall between $60,000 and $83,244. The largest sponsor for this title is CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN LUIS OBISPO (62 filings).

1,360
certified filings
$70,000
Median base salary
$60,000
25th pct
$83,244
75th pct
$102,063
90th pct
$52,099
10th pct
Estimates from public U.S. Department of Labor records — wages are employer-attested offered wages, not verified salaries paid; counts are filings, not people. Not legal, financial, or career advice. See our disclaimer & terms.
Data: DOL filings FY2023–FY2026 (through June 2026) · Page updated November 2026
$52,099$70,000 median$102,063

Salary by fiscal year

YearFilingsMedian
FY2026257$75,005
FY2025386$70,600
FY2024368$68,246
FY2023349$68,245

Top cities

CityFilingsMedian
San Luis Obispo, CA58$81,522
Athens, GA38$78,500
Atlanta, GA34$83,000
Berkeley, CA34$77,042
Gainesville, FL34$73,178
Norman, OK29$61,500
Amherst, MA28$70,000
Princeton, NJ28$80,278
Ithaca, NY27$69,000
Rochester, NY27$50,450
Binghamton, NY26$65,832
Bloomington, IN26$60,000
Los Angeles, CA26$76,702
Norfolk, VA26$69,998
Clemson, SC25$71,410
Boston, MA24$87,498
Troy, NY24$75,690
Cambridge, MA22$100,412
Knoxville, TN21$51,500
Baltimore, MD20$82,500

Lecturer salary by employer

Top 50 sponsors by number of filings. Click a column to sort.

EmployerFilingsMedian salary
CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN LUIS OBISPO62$81,612
University of California, Berkeley37$77,561
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA37$74,000
University of Georgia; OGE35$75,000
University of Oklahoma33$64,000
The Trustees of Princeton University32$81,265
Indiana University30$60,000
University of Massachusetts Amherst30$70,000
Cornell University27$69,000
Old Dominion University27$69,995
Rochester Institute of Technology27$50,450
Clemson University25$71,410
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute25$76,380
THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE25$51,860
Washington University25$59,000
Georgia State University23$83,000
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON23$61,665
Texas State University23$70,000
Purdue University21$87,720
The Ohio State University21$59,987
University of California at Santa Barbara21$73,112
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska20$59,952
Harvard University19$100,000
Texas A&M University18$57,006
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY18$77,814
The University of Vermont16$65,698
University of Illinois16$62,984
University of Maryland College Park16$89,006
Howard University15$62,000
State University of New York at Stony Brook15$75,000
The University of Southern California15$72,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS15$65,164
University of Wisconsin System15$72,176
Case Western Reserve University14$56,556
Johns Hopkins University14$82,500
University of California, Davis14$76,112
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA14$80,000
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY13$64,552
Massachusetts Institute of Technology13$100,460
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY13$50,790
Auburn University12$71,000
North Carolina State University11$50,960
The Leland Stanford, Jr University11$95,000
Univ of WI System/Platteville11$65,000
University of California, Los Angeles10$93,350
W.M. Rice University10$69,715
The University of Virginia9$57,200
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO9$89,046
Georgia Institute of Technology8$88,250
Texas Tech University8$55,000

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Estimates from public U.S. Department of Labor records — wages are employer-attested offered wages, not verified salaries paid. Not legal, financial, or career advice. Full disclaimer