Research Associate H-1B Salary

4,257 certified H-1B filings list the job title Research Associate (FY2023–FY2026). The median offered base salary is $70,000; the middle half of filings fall between $61,916 and $80,000. The largest sponsor for this title is TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (197 filings).

4,257
certified filings
$70,000
Median base salary
$61,916
25th pct
$80,000
75th pct
$95,000
90th pct
$54,539
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
$54,539$70,000 median$95,000

Salary by fiscal year

YearFilingsMedian
FY2026749$74,714
FY20251,141$72,000
FY20241,166$69,000
FY20231,201$66,000

Top cities

CityFilingsMedian
New York, NY476$77,842
Philadelphia, PA257$72,000
Baltimore, MD240$72,000
Charlottesville, VA143$61,572
Rochester, MN133$75,296
Boston, MA106$85,000
Chicago, IL104$69,322
East Lansing, MI103$60,507
Cambridge, MA101$77,653
Los Angeles, CA101$68,000
Ithaca, NY93$74,500
Austin, TX88$82,250
Boulder, CO76$85,549
Dallas, TX68$55,406
Batavia, IL64$66,700
Corvallis, OR63$65,004
Chapel Hill, NC61$65,000
Cincinnati, OH59$64,168
Evanston, IL56$68,893
Houston, TX53$67,943

Research Associate salary by employer

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

EmployerFilingsMedian salary
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA197$75,000
Johns Hopkins University194$71,448
Mayo Clinic191$74,089
Harvard University165$82,246
The University of Virginia161$62,800
Northwestern University146$70,000
Weill Cornell Medical College116$76,317
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY111$61,572
The University of Texas at Austin108$80,000
Cornell University101$75,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center98$79,000
University of Colorado93$83,945
The University of Southern California76$69,071
Oregon State University73$65,004
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL67$66,397
UT Southwestern Medical Center63$55,182
University of Maryland Baltimore59$77,618
The Rockefeller University58$77,988
Research Foundation of CUNY56$69,302
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey49$82,694
Case Western Reserve University47$64,000
Howard Hughes Medical Institute46$69,750
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University45$75,000
University of Utah40$77,249
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center38$64,199
Fermi Research Alliance, LLC36$65,000
Leland Stanford Jr. Univ/SLAC National Accelerator Lab32$78,853
North Carolina State University31$62,115
NYU Grossman School of Medicine31$59,400
The University of Texas at Dallas31$59,212
Thomas Jefferson University28$70,162
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center27$60,445
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY27$58,614
Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC26$66,706
Bernstein Institutional Services LLC24$116,624
Indiana University23$66,500
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia23$62,338
University of Colorado Denver23$63,627
Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope22$67,039
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI22$63,058
Baylor College of Medicine21$70,000
Cornerstone Research, Inc.20$160,000
The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital20$48,000
BOR USGA obo Augusta University19$47,112
The Methodist Hospital Research Institute18$69,689
University of South Florida18$63,314
Purdue University17$67,018
University of Oklahoma17$62,000
Texas A&M University16$48,972
University of Texas at Dallas16$56,690

Related job titles

Postdoctoral Research Associate $63,000Associate Research Scientist $78,155Senior Research Associate $85,938Research Associate II $71,142Research Associate Senior $70,000Research Associate I $65,458Research Associate III $70,000Associate Research Scholar $76,096Clinical Research Associate $71,564Staff Research Associate $69,427

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