Senior Research Scientist H-1B salaries

597 labor condition applications from 205 employers in FY2024–FY2026 · occupation Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists

$110,000median salary

$85,00025th percentile

$173,25075th percentile

581certified LCAs

Employers sponsoring Senior Research Scientist jobs

Employer	LCAs	Median	Range
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	79	$85,000	$70,000 – $145,000
NVIDIA Corporation	42	$201,094	$134,971 – $237,786
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School	27	$75,000	$70,000 – $110,000
NYU Grossman School of Medicine	20	$110,240	$76,907 – $143,325
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	16	$85,000	$77,100 – $94,631
Google LLC	15	$231,000	$167,000 – $326,000
UT Southwestern Medical Center	13	$75,000	$70,000 – $85,000
Adesis, Inc.	12	$128,348	$124,853 – $147,682
Salesforce, Inc.	12	$249,786	$205,522 – $282,672
Trustees of Boston University	11	$106,920	$90,000 – $126,686
University of Pittsburgh	11	$80,210	$75,000 – $100,849
IBM Corporation	10	$260,776	$228,073 – $313,843
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	9	$79,156	$72,822 – $83,000
Upstart Network, Inc.	7	$176,200	$167,000 – $206,535
Pindrop Security, Inc.	6	$165,000	$145,000 – $167,000
SunHydrogen, Inc.	5	$108,118	$89,877 – $114,754
MBZUAI Labs USA Inc.	5	$450,000	$420,000 – $499,200
Texas A&M AgriLife Research	5	$107,825	$90,000 – $116,735
Robert Bosch LLC	5	$127,712	$127,712 – $205,130
Georgia Institute of Technology	5	$86,821	$85,000 – $120,000
UII America, Inc.	4	$164,114	$157,581 – $165,000
Research Foundation for the State University of New York	4	$90,000	$80,000 – $95,000
Brigham and Women's Hospital	4	$89,102	$75,338 – $126,075
The University of Virginia	4	$68,400	$65,300 – $72,800
The University of Texas at Austin	4	$207,000	$93,636 – $243,000
University of Illinois	4	$99,600	$99,200 – $100,000
American Air Liquide Inc.	3	$111,700	$110,469 – $120,411
United Imaging Healthcare North America, Inc.	3	$113,300	$105,000 – $113,300
IonQ Quantum, Inc.	3	$155,000	$125,000 – $155,000
The Research Foundation for SUNY Upstate Medical University	3	$68,000	$57,000 – $70,000
Toyota Research Institute, Inc.	3	$249,312	$224,025 – $249,312
Norc	3	$130,000
QPS, LLC	3	$105,000	$100,431 – $120,000
Southwest Research Institute	3	$104,902	$102,164 – $107,641
FANUC America Corporation	3	$201,057	$195,070 – $202,971
Lehigh University	3	$83,616
Drexel University	3	$78,042	$62,630 – $80,205
Kansas State University	3	$47,112	$47,112 – $48,381
Northeastern University	3	$91,350	$88,825 – $93,000
Schlumberger Technology Corporation	3	$156,650	$137,592 – $157,581
The Curators of the University of Missouri	3	$53,810	$46,530 – $57,325
Government Employee Insurance Company (GEICO)	3	$210,000
Harvard University	3	$150,000	$134,971 – $180,000
Unknot.ID Inc	2	$130,000
Sublime Systems, Inc.	2	$125,500	$123,000 – $128,000
SiOxMed LLC	2	$62,223	$61,360 – $63,086
MicrOmics Technologies, LLC	2	$93,600
Meaning.Team, Inc.	2	$169,998
LiBeyond, LLC	2	$103,500
Eureka Aerospace INC	2	$183,495	$174,990 – $192,000

Salaries by city

New York, NY 118 · $85,000
Houston, TX 31 · $84,000
Worcester, MA 27 · $75,000
Santa Clara, CA 25 · $201,094
Boston, MA 23 · $106,920
Cambridge, MA 16 · $163,620
Pittsburgh, PA 15 · $88,690
Dallas, TX 14 · $75,000
Palo Alto, CA 13 · $242,550
Seattle, WA 12 · $180,200
Atlanta, GA 12 · $120,000
Mountain View, CA 10 · $224,682
Sunnyvale, CA 10 · $167,593
Pasadena, CA 8 · $151,162
Somerville, MA 8 · $119,904
Wilmington, DE 7 · $131,661
San Jose, CA 7 · $201,094
College Station, TX 7 · $107,825
Yorktown Heights, NY 7 · $250,880
Newark, DE 6 · $111,084
New Castle, DE 6 · $127,472
Philadelphia, PA 6 · $79,124
Austin, TX 6 · $168,000
Coralville, IA 5 · $108,118
San Francisco, CA 5 · $233,000
Stony Brook, NY 4 · $90,000
San Diego, CA 4 · $164,100
Burlington, MA 4 · $164,114
Charlottesville, VA 4 · $68,400
Urbana, IL 4 · $99,600

Related job titles

Job title	LCAs	Median salary
Research Associate	3,652	$70,300
Postdoctoral Fellow	2,801	$65,000
Postdoctoral Scholar	2,020	$68,964
Research Fellow	2,001	$72,946
Instructor	1,570	$76,000
Postdoctoral Research Fellow	1,220	$63,120
Staff Scientist	1,125	$77,250
Research Assistant Professor	1,026	$85,000
Associate Research Scientist	975	$78,155
Senior Scientist	825	$120,827
Postdoctoral Researcher	738	$65,625
Assistant Project Scientist	603	$80,800
Assistant Research Scientist	563	$73,758
Post Doctoral Fellow	287	$61,422
Postdoctoral Research Scientist	242	$72,100

Questions and answers

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

The median salary on certified H-1B LCAs for Senior Research Scientist is $110,000; the middle half of offers ranges from $85,000 to $173,250 (581 certified filings).

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

The largest sponsors are Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NVIDIA Corporation, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.