Postdoctoral Research Associate H-1B Salary

2,638 certified H-1B filings list the job title Postdoctoral Research Associate (FY2023–FY2026). The median offered base salary is $63,000; the middle half of filings fall between $56,880 and $70,013. The largest sponsor for this title is The Trustees of Princeton University (307 filings).

2,638
certified filings
$63,000
Median base salary
$56,880
25th pct
$70,013
75th pct
$75,000
90th pct
$52,316
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
$52,316$63,000 median$75,000

Salary by fiscal year

YearFilingsMedian
FY2026430$65,000
FY2025771$64,978
FY2024738$61,428
FY2023699$60,000

Top cities

CityFilingsMedian
Princeton, NJ287$65,000
Memphis, TN270$70,013
College Station, TX170$54,000
St. Louis, MO134$61,428
Los Alamos, NM117$101,128
Storrs, CT113$61,428
Urbana, IL110$59,322
Ames, IA97$58,656
Houston, TX74$60,000
Chapel Hill, NC64$62,835
Troy, NY58$57,082
Pittsburgh, PA55$61,008
St Louis, MO54$63,120
Norman, OK53$55,000
Lincoln, NE49$55,000
Salt Lake City, UT47$65,000
Athens, GA45$60,000
Chicago, IL42$61,505
Omaha, NE35$57,000
Atlanta, GA27$57,200

Postdoctoral Research Associate salary by employer

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

EmployerFilingsMedian salary
The Trustees of Princeton University307$65,000
ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL292$71,270
Washington University198$63,015
Texas A&M University146$55,000
Triad National Security, LLC130$101,128
University of Connecticut129$61,578
University of Illinois126$59,740
Texas A&M AgriLife Research115$53,000
Iowa State University of Science and Technology105$58,656
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL72$63,000
Carnegie Mellon University66$61,174
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute63$57,165
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska58$55,000
W.M. Rice University54$62,000
University of Oklahoma53$55,000
University of Utah51$65,000
University of Nebraska Medical Center34$57,650
Washington State University33$60,000
University of Georgia; OGE32$60,000
Northeastern University29$65,500
University of Illinois at Chicago27$60,000
Stowers Institute for Medical Research26$66,926
Georgia State University25$59,114
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY22$54,082
University of Notre Dame du Lac22$63,738
Texas Tech University20$54,915
Purdue University19$60,000
University of Georgia19$61,214
University of Illinois Chicago18$63,196
The University of Texas at Arlington17$60,000
University of Massachusetts Lowell15$58,871
University of Mississippi15$53,102
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS15$55,000
New York Genome Center, Inc.13$94,491
Lehigh University12$58,500
New Jersey Institute of Technology10$62,366
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi8$56,250
The Florida State University8$60,000
University of Rochester8$60,000
University of Maryland, Baltimore County7$70,000
University of New Hampshire7$61,381
Marquette University6$57,300
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School6$64,275
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY6$52,312
Washington University in St. Louis6$55,865
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University5$69,461
North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University5$53,560
REGENERATIVE RESEARCH FOUNDATION5$56,368
University of Montana5$50,149
Clark Atlanta University4$52,021

Related job titles

Postdoctoral Scholar - Research Associate $67,800Postdoctoral Fellow Research Associate $64,669Research Associate $70,000Postdoctoral Associate $66,499Postdoctoral Research Fellow $62,566Associate Research Scientist $78,155Senior Research Associate $85,938Postdoctoral Research Scholar $61,718Postdoctoral Research Affiliate $75,000Research Associate II $71,142

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