What is the H-1B salary for a Postdoctoral Scholar?

The median offered base salary across 2,244 certified H-1B filings for Postdoctoral Scholar (FY2023–FY2026) is $68,000. The middle 50% range from $61,572 to $74,569.

Which companies sponsor H-1B visas for Postdoctoral Scholar roles?

The largest sponsors by filings are University of California, San Francisco, Northwestern University, The University of Chicago.

Postdoctoral Scholar H-1B Salary

2,244 certified H-1B filings list the job title Postdoctoral Scholar (FY2023–FY2026). The median offered base salary is $68,000; the middle half of filings fall between $61,572 and $74,569. The largest sponsor for this title is University of California, San Francisco (355 filings).

2,244

certified filings

$68,000

Median base salary

$61,572

25th pct

$74,569

75th pct

$80,034

90th pct

$56,880

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

$56,880$68,000 median$80,034

Salary by fiscal year

Year	Filings	Median
FY2026	392	$71,712
FY2025	651	$70,344
FY2024	639	$67,503
FY2023	562	$63,852

Top cities

City	Filings	Median
Chicago, IL	349	$63,852
San Francisco, CA	344	$74,569
Los Angeles, CA	157	$71,952
Seattle, WA	129	$71,244
Evanston, IL	118	$61,942
Davis, CA	114	$71,516
University Park, PA	80	$60,000
Corvallis, OR	72	$61,728
Portland, OR	72	$65,597
Berkeley, CA	62	$82,182
Cleveland, OH	59	$62,252
Santa Barbara, CA	57	$74,425
Irvine, CA	52	$69,385
Memphis, TN	46	$55,600
Hershey, PA	44	$63,852
Lexington, KY	43	$57,300
Tallahassee, FL	34	$57,150
Sacramento, CA	27	$71,908
Pasadena, CA	19	$85,180
Riverside, CA	18	$71,838

Postdoctoral Scholar salary by employer

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

Employer	Filings	Median salary
University of California, San Francisco	355	$74,569
Northwestern University	245	$63,000
The University of Chicago	192	$62,652
University of California, Los Angeles	168	$71,952
University of California, Davis	156	$71,769
University of Washington	141	$71,412
The Pennsylvania State University	134	$61,536
Oregon State University	90	$61,008
Oregon Health & Science University	68	$66,414
University of California at Santa Barbara	64	$74,353
Case Western Reserve University	63	$62,652
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	63	$82,440
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE	60	$69,692
University of Chicago	55	$65,545
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center	50	$55,462
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY	47	$57,880
The Florida State University	38	$57,807
Tufts University	32	$67,776
California Institute of Technology/Jet Propulsion Laboratory	22	$84,430
University of California, Merced	17	$71,769
East Carolina University	16	$63,041
Regents of the University of California at Riverside	15	$71,908
University of California, Santa Cruz	15	$69,209
The University of Alabama at Birmingham	14	$56,572
The Ohio State University	13	$60,000
Texas State University	11	$56,000
The J. David Gladstone Institutes	10	$66,560
Northern Arizona University	9	$63,654
Arizona State University	8	$62,555
Michigan Technological University	8	$59,176
University of Nevada, Reno	6	$59,832
University of Oregon	6	$60,996
University of South Florida	6	$63,214
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY	4	$68,912
Medical University of South Carolina and Affiliates	3	$71,000
Regent of University California of Riverside	3	$64,480
Research Foundation for the State University of New York - Albany	3	$55,596
Howard University	2	$60,929
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Inc.	2	$74,766
Regents of University California of Riverside	2	$66,930
The Leland Stanford, Jr University	2	$120,162
The University of Alabama	2	$61,000
University of Louisville	2	$53,168
University of Nevada, Las Vegas	2	$62,500
University of Notre Dame du Lac	2	$59,000
University of Rhode Island	2	$55,940
Virginia Commonwealth University	2	$61,138
Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund	1	$58,000
Duke University	1	$74,000
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University	1	$65,000

Related job titles

Postdoctoral Scholar Employee $74,281 Postdoctoral Research Scholar $61,718 Postdoctoral Scholar - Research Associate $67,800 Postdoctoral Fellow $64,854 Postdoctoral Associate $66,499 Postdoctoral Researcher $65,000 Postdoctoral Scientist $76,426 Research Scholar $70,073 Postdoctoral Appointee $68,371 Postdoctoral Research Associate $63,000