Instructor H-1B Salary

1,839 certified H-1B filings list the job title Instructor (FY2023–FY2026). The median offered base salary is $75,000; the middle half of filings fall between $64,314 and $90,000. The largest sponsor for this title is Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (187 filings).

1,839
certified filings
$75,000
Median base salary
$64,314
25th pct
$90,000
75th pct
$125,000
90th pct
$53,227
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
$53,227$75,000 median$125,000

Salary by fiscal year

YearFilingsMedian
FY2026365$80,000
FY2025483$76,650
FY2024517$74,880
FY2023474$71,270

Top cities

CityFilingsMedian
New York, NY164$91,236
Houston, TX147$75,804
Daytona Beach, FL145$53,227
Dallas, TX94$74,800
St. Louis, MO84$80,000
Boston, MA74$90,950
Stanford, CA68$90,500
Omaha, NE46$60,113
Fairfield, IA32$64,000
Worcester, MA32$75,247
Birmingham, AL30$75,632
St Louis, MO28$84,291
Corvallis, OR27$74,772
Jackson, MS27$73,000
Prescott, AZ27$70,387
Atlanta, GA25$80,000
Baltimore, MD23$87,550
Bronx, NY23$77,250
Milwaukee, WI19$88,570
Philadelphia, PA19$100,000

Instructor salary by employer

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

EmployerFilingsMedian salary
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University187$55,349
Washington University111$80,000
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai108$90,000
UT Southwestern Medical Center99$75,000
The Leland Stanford, Jr University90$91,000
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center85$76,000
Baylor College of Medicine55$77,250
University of Nebraska Medical Center37$59,050
MAHARISHI International UNIVERSITY34$64,000
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute33$91,800
Oregon State University33$74,772
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School32$75,747
The University of Alabama at Birmingham29$73,285
Albert Einstein College of Medicine28$78,280
University of Mississippi Medical Center28$73,534
Columbia University27$108,200
Weill Cornell Medical College27$87,550
Emory University26$80,000
Johns Hopkins University24$84,460
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center21$73,123
University of Connecticut Health Center20$68,000
Harvard University19$106,884
Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc.19$100,000
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University17$54,050
Duke University16$58,654
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA16$100,000
University of Illinois16$57,500
Washington University in St. Louis15$240,000
Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund14$75,000
La Jolla Institute for Immunology14$70,999
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences14$68,820
Yale University14$111,750
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston13$70,000
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska12$67,500
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center12$292,500
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI12$90,000
University of Rochester12$70,000
Colorado State University10$56,495
DePaul University10$80,000
Santa Fe South Schools Inc.9$47,513
The Trustees of Princeton University9$107,113
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center9$64,357
University of Colorado Denver9$63,378
Arizona State University8$77,000
Louisiana State University and A&M College8$56,496
Northern Illinois University8$56,846
Syracuse University8$106,392
Texas Tech University8$99,788
The University of Iowa8$116,625
University of Arkansas8$48,000

Related job titles

Clinical Instructor $97,884Research Instructor $70,000Acting Instructor $85,008Assistant Instructor $68,775Foreign Language Instructor $70,250Instructor in Investigation $73,819Clinical Assistant Instructor $75,303

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