Staff Scientist H-1B salaries

1,125 labor condition applications from 99 employers in FY2024–FY2026 · occupation Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists

$77,250median salary

$66,94825th percentile

$103,40575th percentile

1,089certified LCAs

Employers sponsoring Staff Scientist jobs

Employer	LCAs	Median	Range
Washington University	296	$65,380	$48,381 – $89,200
National Institutes of Health, HHS	160	$121,894	$103,690 – $215,543
Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope	67	$83,459	$69,210 – $130,000
The Scripps Research Institute	59	$78,000	$62,400 – $87,734
Albert Einstein College of Medicine	58	$75,000	$65,000 – $100,000
The University of Chicago	55	$76,490	$61,748 – $140,000
Baylor College of Medicine	40	$74,492	$64,356 – $84,872
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center	29	$96,659	$84,406 – $130,187
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute	28	$75,587	$64,480 – $944,988
University of Rochester	27	$60,000	$54,000 – $1,560,000
City of Hope National Medical Center	19	$86,979	$72,720 – $130,000
California Institute of Technology	19	$80,000	$62,691 – $105,074
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center	18	$66,685	$56,368 – $74,312
Leland Stanford Jr. Univ/SLAC National Accelerator Lab	15	$148,000	$101,837 – $163,358
Oregon Health & Science University	15	$108,160	$94,464 – $147,846
Children's Hospital Corporation	15	$90,000	$74,880 – $186,000
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans	11	$60,000	$58,000 – $66,685
Vanderbilt University Medical Center	11	$72,583	$60,000 – $80,000
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	11	$87,558	$56,472 – $104,562
University of Florida	9	$72,562	$65,333 – $99,000
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies	8	$79,600	$67,500 – $87,550
The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology	7	$77,273	$74,301 – $86,205
Corning Research & Development Corporation	7	$123,434	$112,489 – $156,348
Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC	7	$197,169	$170,602 – $217,256
Vanderbilt University	7	$77,000	$72,100 – $87,125
Georgetown University	7	$69,971	$65,000 – $85,000
Benaroya Research Institute	5	$93,349	$79,808 – $94,243
Children's National Medical Center	5	$77,456	$69,655 – $103,405
Illumina, Inc.	5	$118,200	$115,800 – $135,304
The Forsyth Institute	4	$45,718
Sirius XM Radio Inc.	4	$235,000	$200,000 – $240,000
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc.	4	$73,203	$65,000 – $112,403
Southern Microbiological Services, LLC	3	$75,000	$75,000 – $90,000
Sanford Laboratories for Innovative Medicines	3	$105,000
The Translational Genomics Research Institute	3	$73,861	$68,737 – $75,608
Washington State University	3	$67,000	$65,000 – $71,400
University of Notre Dame du Lac	3	$54,246	$45,053 – $54,246
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center	3	$70,524	$68,206 – $72,842
UT Southwestern Medical Center	3	$91,872	$82,000 – $101,745
Orion Medicines, Inc.	2	$200,000
Inomagen Therapeutics, Inc	2	$88,587
Eurofins EAG Agroscience, LLC	2	$69,344	$65,000 – $73,688
Carnegie Institution for Science	2	$161,000	$152,000 – $170,000
Integrated Decisions and Systems, Inc.	2	$113,412	$112,466 – $114,358
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home	2	$80,000
La Jolla Institute for Immunology	2	$86,922	$84,843 – $89,000
Latitude AI, LLC	2	$237,210	$211,920 – $262,500
Geisinger Clinic	2	$71,760	$63,523 – $79,997
Guidehouse Digital LLC	2	$121,785
Axle Informatics	2	$120,579

Salaries by city

St. Louis, MO 297 · $65,400
Bethesda, MD 139 · $122,026
La Jolla, CA 100 · $78,000
Duarte, CA 63 · $85,000
Chicago, IL 57 · $76,491
Bronx, NY 56 · $75,000
Houston, TX 40 · $74,492
Seattle, WA 37 · $93,787
Rochester, NY 27 · $60,000
Monrovia, CA 23 · $81,034
Boston, MA 19 · $83,990
Pasadena, CA 19 · $80,000
Nashville, TN 18 · $74,000
Oklahoma City, OK 18 · $66,685
Menlo Park, CA 16 · $148,000
Philadelphia, PA 16 · $77,273
Washington, DC 13 · $70,900
San Diego, CA 12 · $118,200
Portland, OR 11 · $108,160
New Orleans, LA 11 · $60,000
Jupiter, FL 9 · $72,562
Baltimore, MD 8 · $120,000
Painted Post, NY 7 · $123,434
Rockville, MD 6 · $122,657
Frederick, MD 6 · $119,142
Cambridge, MA 5 · $45,718
Livermore, CA 5 · $186,700
Research Triangle Park, NC 4 · $107,453
Beaverton, OR 4 · $99,750
Dallas, TX 4 · $82,000

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
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
Senior Research Scientist	597	$110,000
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 Staff Scientist?

The median salary on certified H-1B LCAs for Staff Scientist is $77,250; the middle half of offers ranges from $66,948 to $103,405 (1,089 certified filings).

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

The largest sponsors are Washington University, National Institutes of Health, HHS, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, The Scripps Research Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine.