Research Scientist H-1B Salary

6,846 certified H-1B filings list the job title Research Scientist (FY2023–FY2026). The median offered base salary is $150,000; the middle half of filings fall between $78,100 and $193,000. The largest sponsor for this title is Meta Platforms, Inc (1,792 filings).

6,846
certified filings
$150,000
Median base salary
$78,100
25th pct
$193,000
75th pct
$222,950
90th pct
$65,130
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
$65,130$150,000 median$222,950

Salary by fiscal year

YearFilingsMedian
FY20261,831$182,000
FY20251,856$160,000
FY20241,635$117,812
FY20231,524$108,281

Top cities

CityFilingsMedian
Menlo Park, CA490$186,200
New York, NY453$182,000
Mountain View, CA353$196,000
Cambridge, MA341$91,000
Sunnyvale, CA245$198,940
Bellevue, WA224$198,940
Santa Clara, CA196$184,997
Boston, MA178$72,100
Seattle, WA163$177,015
Houston, TX160$73,450
San Jose, CA124$211,600
Columbus, OH117$75,000
Charlottesville, VA108$67,650
San Francisco, CA106$200,547
Pittsburgh, PA104$73,148
Redmond, WA100$194,224
Dallas, TX93$69,000
Hillsboro, OR91$130,603
Cleveland, OH81$66,228
Livermore, CA76$185,506

Research Scientist salary by employer

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

EmployerFilingsMedian salary
Meta Platforms, Inc1,792$190,278
Google LLC618$196,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology257$85,000
NVIDIA Corporation243$173,971
Intel Corporation200$138,445
The University of Virginia123$68,000
ByteDance Inc.115$252,600
Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC92$186,059
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center89$73,333
UT Southwestern Medical Center89$70,000
The Ohio State University80$77,176
NYU Grossman School of Medicine76$87,075
Brigham and Women's Hospital66$72,858
University of Pittsburgh65$65,052
RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF SUNY AT BUFFALO62$64,012
IBM Corporation60$205,000
General Hospital Corporation57$70,000
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY53$73,000
University of Illinois46$74,368
KLA Corporation44$158,000
Research Foundation for the State University of New York44$71,200
Cleveland Clinic Foundation40$68,756
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University38$79,082
Van Andel Research Institute37$75,000
The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital35$75,000
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio35$59,000
Purdue University33$94,266
Waymo LLC33$193,000
Duke University32$79,946
QPS, LLC32$89,809
New York University31$76,590
University of Texas Medical Branch30$64,950
Cleveland Clinic29$64,000
Netflix, Inc.29$257,421
Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc.28$73,033
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston27$67,824
University of Oklahoma27$76,942
The Curators of the University of Missouri26$52,042
Trustees of Dartmouth College25$70,000
Bay Area Environmental Research Institute24$106,923
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center23$108,326
Mayo Clinic23$104,644
Texas A&M University22$72,500
Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund21$65,000
TikTok Inc.21$200,640
The Methodist Hospital Research Institute20$91,000
The University of Texas at Dallas20$72,556
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary19$69,701
The George Washington University19$80,000
Virginia Commonwealth University19$68,844

Related job titles

Associate Research Scientist $78,155Senior Research Scientist $107,625Research Scientist II $118,200Assistant Research Scientist $72,492Research Scientist I $83,741Postdoctoral Research Scientist $72,100Research Scientist III $114,000Research Scientist/Engineer $195,000Staff Research Scientist $200,911AI Research Scientist $215,658

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