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Postdoctoral Associate H-1B salaries

Employers filed 2,133 certified H-1B applications for Postdoctoral Associate roles between Jan 2023 and Jun 2026. The median salary was $67,200.

Median salary offered
$67,200
Middle half earn
$62,232 to $72,000
Top 10% earn over
$80,000
Certified filings
2,133

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Pay by employer

EmployerFilingsMedianMiddle half
Massachusetts Institute of Technology214$71,000$66,950 – $72,024
University of Pittsburgh170$62,516$61,008 – $65,640
Yale University160$68,152$66,625 – $70,040
Duke University153$64,517$62,000 – $69,104
Cornell University149$65,000$61,008 – $72,800
Weill Cornell Medical College115$73,000$64,945 – $80,000
Howard Hughes Medical Institute104$78,786$74,263 – $81,149
University of Minnesota84$61,650$58,504 – $63,215
New York University82$68,058$65,082 – $74,794
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey72$67,582$65,000 – $70,810
Trustees of Boston University56$70,000$68,079 – $72,800
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School56$61,572$61,428 – $64,356
University of Florida55$61,428$57,300 – $65,820
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University49$67,018$62,607 – $68,053
The Broad Institute, Inc.48$76,526$74,242 – $81,253
The Scripps Research Institute48$68,640$68,000 – $70,886
University of Maryland College Park47$78,592$65,000 – $83,341
Research Foundation for the State University of New York43$63,800$61,756 – $65,000
W.M. Rice University41$61,550$58,000 – $65,208
The Rockefeller University41$74,100$72,000 – $76,915
Mississippi State University37$60,000$52,000 – $62,878
University of Rochester30$60,965$57,000 – $63,955
Georgetown University28$71,766$64,876 – $74,816
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute25$68,016$68,016 – $75,587
Brandeis University22$65,000$61,913 – $71,750
Duke University and Health System16$64,500$61,462 – $66,040
The Jackson Laboratory14$65,589$64,289 – $65,589
The University of Vermont13$61,008$61,008 – $61,428
Florida International University13$61,925$58,414 – $65,000
Institute for Cancer Research13$68,964$66,495 – $74,008
Research Foundation of Suny at Buffalo13$64,085$58,656 – $66,093
The George Washington University10$69,268$67,624 – $72,146
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research9$75,000$75,000 – $75,000
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago8$59,322$56,368 – $63,960
University of Colorado7$66,560$64,448 – $77,484
State University of New York at Buffalo6$57,062$50,378 – $63,016
State University of New York at Binghamton5$60,000$50,000 – $60,000
The Research Foundation at SUNY Binghamton5$62,000$59,000 – $62,000
The Research Foundation for SUNY Albany4$63,605$62,660 – $64,250
The Research Foundation for SUNY Upstate Medical University4$62,346$59,889 – $63,963
The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College4$64,572$62,652 – $67,869
Carnegie Mellon University4$75,000$70,000 – $75,000
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center3$59,039$57,340 – $59,160
Indiana University3$56,000$56,000 – $56,250
Research Foundation for the State University of New York - Albany3$59,634$57,300 – $61,995
University of Louisville2$59,567$58,434 – $60,700
Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Inc.2$64,794$63,297 – $66,291
Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund2$53,240$50,860 – $55,620
Virginia Commonwealth University2$60,000$60,000 – $60,000
The Research Foundation for SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University2$59,455$58,378 – $60,532

Where these jobs are

Bigger dots mean more filings; darker blue means higher pay.
CityFilingsMedianMiddle half
Cambridge, MA269$71,000$67,040 – $75,000
New York, NY253$72,100$66,538 – $77,584
Pittsburgh, PA172$62,516$61,008 – $65,832
Durham, NC171$64,600$62,000 – $69,104
New Haven, CT156$68,285$66,625 – $70,421
Ithaca, NY153$65,000$61,008 – $72,800
La Jolla, CA76$68,640$68,000 – $70,990
Worcester, MA60$61,574$61,428 – $64,890
Boston, MA59$70,000$68,280 – $73,238
Minneapolis, MN46$61,404$59,117 – $64,961
Houston, TX44$62,016$58,148 – $65,980
Piscataway, NJ43$67,787$65,000 – $70,874
Blacksburg, VA42$67,536$62,675 – $68,053
Stony Brook, NY41$63,800$61,714 – $65,000
College Park, MD35$76,853$62,605 – $80,986
Washington, DC33$70,000$65,000 – $73,500
Gainesville, FL32$60,945$57,300 – $65,026
Rochester, NY30$60,965$57,000 – $63,955
Waltham, MA25$66,300$63,120 – $75,564
Mississippi State, MS24$53,269$50,112 – $60,552

By experience level

Wage levelFilingsMedian
Level I1,696$66,950
Level II192$75,740
Level III64$68,984
Level IV4$65,870

Levels I to IV are the Labor Department's experience bands, from entry level (I) to fully competent (IV).

By year

Year filedFilingsMedian
2023274$62,500
2024807$67,000
2025677$68,053
2026375$69,104