Electrical Engineers, R&D H-1B salaries

SOC code 17-2074 · 577 labor condition applications from 105 employers in FY2024–FY2026.

$90,506median salary
$72,450 – $111,578middle half of offers
563certified LCAs

Top employers

EmployerLCAsMedian salary
Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC 53$96,000
Ut-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) 48$117,806
Battelle Memorial Institute 45$124,606
Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. 43$85,860
Brookhaven National Laboratory 35$110,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 17$75,000
Georgia Institute of Technology 13$75,000
UChicago Argonne LLC 11$98,924
Alliance for Energy Innovation, LLC 11$104,168
The Trustees of Princeton University 11$67,500
The University of Virginia 10$77,850
The University of Southern California 10$70,158
California Institute of Technology/Jet Propulsion Laboratory 9$120,016
Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC 9$91,949
University of Colorado 9$80,500
The University of Texas at Austin 9$131,000
Colorado State University 8$79,550
University of Michigan 7$102,543
University of Wisconsin System 7$62,000
The Ohio State University 7$77,106
Fermi Research Alliance, LLC 6$82,700
Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC 6$139,646
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station 6$66,500
General Hospital Corporation 6$82,784
Northeastern University 5$75,000
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania 5$66,000
Leland Stanford Jr. Univ/SLAC National Accelerator Lab 5$130,000
W.M. Rice University 5$83,400
The Leland Stanford, Jr University 5$89,000
Duke University and Health System 5$65,000
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University 5$60,632
NYU Grossman School of Medicine 5$77,759
Cornell University 5$68,356
University of California, Berkeley 5$75,721
Michigan State University 4$116,940
Iowa State University of Science and Technology 4$87,000
Arizona State University 4$85,820
University of Maryland College Park 4$88,303
University of St. Thomas 4$45,947
The Research Foundation for SUNY Polytechnic Institute 4$130,032
Clemson University 4$66,851
National Radio Astronomy Observatory 4$78,176
New York University 4$85,125
The Curators of the University of Missouri/Missouri University of Science and Technology 3$48,000
North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University 3$69,440
Southern Methodist University 3$110,500
University of South Carolina 3$68,053
Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. (EPRI) 3$87,360
The Florida State University 3$55,000
University of Miami 3$70,344

Job titles

Job titleLCAsMedian salary
Researcher III - Electrical Engineering 25$99,294
Researcher III - Model Engineering 20$95,050
Staff - Level III 14$74,890
Staff - Level IV 12$79,892
Staff - Level II 10$75,618
RF Microwave Engineer 9$145,600
Researcher IV - Electrical Engineering 9$115,600
Researcher II - Electrical Engineering 9$81,105
Technical Leader I 8$94,096
Staff - Level V 8$86,705
Technical Leader II 7$97,090
Researcher II - Model Engineering 5$82,400
Post Doctorate Research Associate (Electrical Engineer) 5$93,995
Research Scientist/Scholar II 4$78,660
Research Associate (Electrical Engineer) 4$83,692
Power Systems Research Engineer 4$140,696