Postdoctoral Researcher, H-1B salary
What 2,893 H-1B filings report for “Postdoctoral Researcher” (LCA, FY2017–2026): pay percentiles, the states paying most, and who files.
What is the H-1B salary for a Postdoctoral Researcher?
$55k median H-1B base salary for a Postdoctoral Researcher, typically $47k to $71k, across 2,893 H-1B LCA filings with the U.S. Department of Labor (FY2017 to FY2026). Highest in California at $66k median.
Median pay & filings over time · H-1B · FY2017–2026*
Top-paying states
Median for this title · ≥20 filings
- 1California148$66k+$11k
- 2Pennsylvania700$60k+$5k
- 3Illinois32$59k+$4k
- 4Colorado43$58k+$3k
- 5New York109$57k+$2k
- 6Massachusetts110$55ksame
- 7Texas827$55ksame
- 8Kansas83$55ksame
- 9Delaware40$52k−$3k
- 10Louisiana209$50k−$5k
- 11Wyoming45$49k−$6k
- 12Alabama56$49k−$6k
Where the pay sits state by state, against the national $55kfor the same title. States with at least 20 filings, so a median is not built on a handful of rows.
Which companies sponsor H-1B for a Postdoctoral Researcher?
The employers that file the most H-1B labor condition applications for Postdoctoral Researcher roles are University of Pennsylvania, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Ohio State University, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, and Louisiana State University, based on their U.S. Department of Labor (LCA) filings. Open any for its full Postdoctoral Researcher filing history, pay, and open roles.
Top employers for this title
Most H-1B filings · with each employer’s median for the role
- 1University of Pennsylvania641 filings$60k
- 2UT Southwestern Medical Center617 filings$56k
- 3Ohio State University181 filings$48k
- 4Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station149 filings$53k
- 5Louisiana State University124 filings$50k
- 6Whitehead Institute85 filings$55k
- 7University of Kansas76 filings$55k
- 8Syracuse University55 filings$55k
- 9University of Wyoming45 filings$49k
- 10Meta43 filings$165k
- 11University of Delaware42 filings$51k
- 12University of Alabama41 filings$50k
- 13LSU Agricultural Center36 filings$49k
- 14Alliance for Sustainable Energy33 filings$59k
- 15Oregon Health & Science University29 filings$49k
- 16Prairie View A&M University28 filings$57k
- 17Carnegie Mellon University24 filings$62k
- 18Terasaki Institute21 filings$60k
- 19Lsu Health Sciences Center/New Orleans18 filings$49k
- 20University of California, Riverside17 filings$62k
- 21Buck Institute for Research on Aging16 filings$67k
- 22Drexel University16 filings$54k
- 23Ohio University16 filings$50k
- 24LSU Health Sciences Center15 filings$55k
- 25University of Texas at Arlington15 filings$50k
- 26Microsoft13 filings$143k
- 27The Catholic University of America13 filings$65k
- 28University of Chicago12 filings$80k
- 29California State University, Northridge11 filings$67k
- 30Montana State University11 filings$48k
- 31Pennington Biomedical Research Center11 filings$54k
- 32University of Oregon9 filings$48k
- 33Rochester Institute of Technology8 filings$56k
- 34University of Maine8 filings$51k
- 35Coriell Institute for Medical Research7 filings$56k
- 36Medical College of Wisconsin7 filings$63k
- 37Saint Louis University7 filings$52k
- 38Marquette University7 filings$42k
- 39Loyola University Chicago7 filings$52k
- 40Boyce Thompson Institute6 filings$48k
- 41North Dakota State University6 filings$44k
- 42University of New Hampshire6 filings$49k
- 43University of South Florida6 filings$53k
- 44Wichita State University6 filings$54k
- 45Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory6 filings$73k
- 46Virginia Commonwealth University6 filings$51k
- 47Tulane University5 filings$58k
- 48Desert Research Institute5 filings$75k
- 49International Computer Science Institute5 filings$80k
- 50Morgan State University5 filings$49k
Related titles in this family
2,884 filings carry “Postdoctoral Researcher” in the title, across 174 variants. Pay differs by variant, so each is listed with its own median.
- 1Postdoctoral Researcher - Materials Science44 filings$71k
- 2Postdoctoral Researcher - Chemical Engineering35 filings$69k
- 3Postdoctoral Researcher - Mechanical Engineering27 filings$68k
- 4Postdoctoral Researcher - Chemistry19 filings$57k
- 5Senior Postdoctoral Researcher16 filings$54k
- 6Postdoctoral Researcher - Physics14 filings$56k
- 7Postdoctoral Researcher - Electrical Engineering11 filings$69k
- 8Postdoctoral Researcher - Bioengineering10 filings$72k
- 9Postdoctoral Researcher - Biochemistry9 filings$74k
- 10Postdoctoral Researcher - Computational Sciences8 filings$75k
- 11Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational Biomechanics6 filings$53k
- 12Postdoctoral Scholar (Postdoctoral Researcher)6 filings$60k
Figures are for the exact title “Postdoctoral Researcher”; for a rare title we widen to the closest related titles (flagged above when that happens). To benchmark a specific offer by employer and state, use Salary Check.