Professor H-1B Salary

379 certified H-1B filings list the job title Professor (FY2023–FY2026). The median offered base salary is $180,000; the middle half of filings fall between $140,000 and $250,000. The largest sponsor for this title is Cornell University (15 filings).

379
certified filings
$180,000
Median base salary
$140,000
25th pct
$250,000
75th pct
$325,816
90th pct
$92,130
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
$92,130$180,000 median$325,816

Salary by fiscal year

YearFilingsMedian
FY202659$187,821
FY202596$190,015
FY2024114$179,266
FY2023110$170,000

Top cities

CityFilingsMedian
Ithaca, NY13$275,290
Houston, TX12$225,000
Boston, MA11$271,634
Salt Lake City, UT10$161,500
New York, NY9$200,000
Los Angeles, CA8$218,040
Notre Dame, IN8$180,000
Baltimore, MD7$219,895
Birmingham, AL7$378,000
Dallas, TX7$354,500
Rochester, NY7$180,000
Durham, NC6$358,768
Madison, WI6$214,726
New Haven, CT6$233,200
Ann Arbor, MI5$189,405
Berkeley, CA5$190,030
Cambridge, MA5$288,400
College Station, TX5$200,000
Princeton, NJ5$275,000
Santa Barbara, CA5$166,100

Professor salary by employer

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

EmployerFilingsMedian salary
Cornell University15$270,000
University of Utah10$161,500
Harvard University9$291,282
University of Notre Dame du Lac9$185,000
University of California, Los Angeles7$272,500
Yale University7$236,400
Johns Hopkins University6$245,148
University of California, Berkeley6$190,165
University of Rochester6$185,500
University of Wisconsin System6$214,726
Texas A&M University5$200,000
The University of Texas at Austin5$210,000
University of California at Santa Barbara5$166,100
University of Illinois5$151,167
University of Michigan5$189,405
University of Minnesota5$125,000
Duke University4$367,315
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai4$200,000
Northeastern University4$204,000
Northwestern University4$244,500
Regents of the University of California at Riverside4$227,900
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey4$191,780
The Leland Stanford, Jr University4$403,611
The Pennsylvania State University4$170,010
The Trustees of Princeton University4$287,500
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center4$333,042
University of Alabama Health Services Foundation, PC4$351,500
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA4$161,500
University of Massachusetts Amherst4$170,932
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center4$407,500
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY4$107,998
Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund3$148,164
Baylor College of Medicine3$311,640
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska3$126,000
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY3$800,000
Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc.3$382,000
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY3$168,040
New York University3$325,000
North Carolina State University3$153,672
San Diego State University3$137,004
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON3$149,350
The Curators of the University of Missouri3$143,912
The Ohio University3$140,000
The University of Alabama at Birmingham3$450,008
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO3$165,000
University of California, Santa Cruz3$199,600
University of Houston3$155,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI3$155,627
University of North Carolina at Charlotte3$173,187
UT Southwestern Medical Center3$200,000

Related job titles

Assistant Professor $106,667Associate Professor $125,960Clinical Assistant Professor $184,800Research Assistant Professor $82,500Assistant Research Professor $80,000Assistant Teaching Professor $79,393Visiting Assistant Professor $70,000Assistant Professor - Clinical $235,702Teaching Assistant Professor $75,138Clinical Associate Professor $201,283

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