Research Scientist H-1B salaries

5,780 labor condition applications from 652 employers in FY2024–FY2026 · occupation Computer and Information Research Scientists

$147,867median salary

$79,01925th percentile

$195,10475th percentile

5,682certified LCAs

Employers sponsoring Research Scientist jobs

Employer	LCAs	Median	Range
Meta Platforms, Inc	1,519	$190,976	$80,080 – $324,078
Google LLC	516	$200,000	$150,000 – $400,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	250	$85,000	$65,000 – $880,056
NVIDIA Corporation	210	$169,695	$104,000 – $272,000
Intel Corporation	141	$136,448	$107,702 – $224,682
The University of Virginia	106	$69,200	$52,000 – $160,160
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	96	$73,649	$44,034 – $86,000
ByteDance Inc.	84	$255,300	$76,294 – $650,000
UT Southwestern Medical Center	79	$70,070	$60,000 – $692,000
NYU Grossman School of Medicine	77	$85,050	$63,000 – $200,000
The Ohio State University	71	$82,184	$51,025 – $150,000
Trustees of Boston University	52	$72,240	$60,000 – $103,157
Brigham and Women's Hospital	52	$75,000	$55,000 – $125,000
University of Pittsburgh	52	$66,731	$55,000 – $87,048
IBM Corporation	49	$210,000	$173,233 – $273,267
Research Foundation of Suny at Buffalo	44	$64,698	$54,000 – $111,300
Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC	44	$180,586	$135,056 – $222,000
University of Illinois	44	$75,000	$52,377 – $110,066
Research Foundation for the State University of New York	41	$74,000	$53,997 – $97,240
General Hospital Corporation	39	$71,406	$60,000 – $108,000
KLA Corporation	38	$160,000	$111,000 – $234,446
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio	36	$58,670	$47,500 – $80,000
Purdue University	35	$88,380	$63,000 – $123,840
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University	33	$79,728	$55,692 – $144,789
The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital	32	$76,000	$70,000 – $92,477
QPS, LLC	31	$90,000	$86,750 – $97,500
Van Andel Research Institute	30	$76,438	$66,151 – $84,542
Duke University	28	$81,926	$54,812 – $126,700
Netflix, Inc.	27	$257,421	$159,182 – $283,442
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	26	$67,912	$60,726 – $90,000
The University of Texas at Dallas	24	$72,556	$55,000 – $772,512
Waymo LLC	24	$213,000	$165,000 – $267,000
Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc.	23	$71,140	$60,246 – $123,718
University of Texas Medical Branch	22	$65,134	$59,666 – $74,500
Cleveland Clinic	22	$66,029	$48,214 – $110,000
Cleveland Clinic Foundation	22	$71,869	$52,541 – $115,509
Bay Area Environmental Research Institute	21	$110,000	$75,000 – $185,000
Trustees of Dartmouth College	21	$70,000	$55,723 – $86,070
New York University	21	$80,000	$65,326 – $133,250
Yale University	21	$93,166	$75,000 – $150,000
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	20	$108,326	$71,094 – $260,230
The Curators of the University of Missouri	20	$51,668	$45,053 – $72,420
University of Oklahoma	19	$80,242	$58,500 – $106,756
California Institute of Technology	19	$84,000	$68,000 – $120,000
Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund	19	$65,000	$56,300 – $90,000
Texas A&M University	19	$72,500	$55,120 – $139,889
The Methodist Hospital Research Institute	18	$95,000	$75,000 – $133,110
Harvard University	18	$100,000	$75,000 – $146,754
TikTok Inc.	18	$200,640	$127,712 – $452,000
The University of Southern California	17	$111,509	$63,627 – $125,000

Salaries by city

Menlo Park, CA 716 · $186,200
New York, NY 501 · $185,000
Cambridge, MA 337 · $90,000
Mountain View, CA 317 · $202,000
Bellevue, WA 255 · $200,640
Sunnyvale, CA 184 · $200,000
Boston, MA 172 · $75,065
Houston, TX 169 · $75,000
Santa Clara, CA 142 · $169,242
Seattle, WA 117 · $180,000
Columbus, OH 104 · $78,000
San Jose, CA 104 · $235,000
Charlottesville, VA 103 · $69,000
Pittsburgh, PA 87 · $72,295
Dallas, TX 86 · $70,140
San Francisco, CA 84 · $201,000
Hillsboro, OR 79 · $130,603
Redmond, WA 75 · $203,350
Los Angeles, CA 63 · $120,000
Buffalo, NY 53 · $67,059
Burlingame, CA 50 · $186,332
Cleveland, OH 49 · $68,610
Palo Alto, CA 46 · $191,922
Austin, TX 45 · $136,448
Urbana, IL 41 · $75,000
San Antonio, TX 41 · $59,500
Livermore, CA 40 · $181,036
West Lafayette, IN 39 · $89,994
Chicago, IL 38 · $75,629
Durham, NC 36 · $84,000

Related job titles

Job title	LCAs	Median salary
Applied Scientist II	1,961	$177,700
Research Engineer	899	$175,000
Applied Scientist III	601	$201,630
Research Scientist II	481	$112,941
Applied Scientist I	306	$160,000
Applied Scientist	248	$178,977
Senior Research Engineer	176	$128,150
Research Scientist III	158	$121,420
Research Scientist/Engineer	141	$195,000
AI Research Scientist	120	$217,528
Staff Research Scientist	115	$214,593
Senior Researcher	112	$143,000
AI Scientist	92	$245,000
Computer and Information Research Scientist	59	$142,210
AI Researcher	57	$212,300

Questions and answers

What is the H-1B salary for a Research Scientist?

The median salary on certified H-1B LCAs for Research Scientist is $147,867; the middle half of offers ranges from $79,019 to $195,104 (5,682 certified filings).

Which companies sponsor H-1B visas for Research Scientist jobs?

The largest sponsors are Meta Platforms, Inc, Google LLC, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, NVIDIA Corporation, Intel Corporation.