H-1B Salary Lookup

Postdoctoral Associate H-1B Salary by Company

691 certified full-time H-1B filings for "Postdoctoral Associate" and close variants, decided Jul 1, 2025 – Jun 30, 2026. Most common occupation codes: Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists, Biochemists and Biophysicists, Molecular and Cellular Biologists.

$68,600Median salary
$64,36825th percentile
$73,30875th percentile
691Filings

Top-paying companies for Postdoctoral Associate

Employers with at least 3 filings for this title, ranked by median offered salary.

CompanyFilingsMedianMiddle 50%
The Rockefeller University13$80,855$74,263 – $88,580
Weill Cornell Medical College44$79,596$74,692 – $82,598
The Broad Institute17$78,795$74,263 – $81,885
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute8$78,749$77,922 – $78,749
University of Maryland College Park16$78,138$67,018 – $80,784
The George Washington University4$76,096$67,447 – $88,451
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research3$75,000$73,550 – $75,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology56$71,494$71,000 – $74,263
The Scripps Research Institute13$70,304$70,304 – $70,886
Yale University34$70,020$69,500 – $72,000
Trustees of Boston University22$70,000$70,000 – $72,625
Georgetown University12$69,486$62,750 – $72,125
Cornell University32$69,470$63,249 – $73,315
University of Colorado22$69,451$66,515 – $73,440
New York University35$68,698$66,547 – $74,657
Duke University43$68,435$65,837 – $70,832
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University22$68,053$65,270 – $68,053
Institute for Cancer Research5$67,824$65,640 – $77,084
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey37$67,378$65,205 – $69,624
Brandeis University10$66,264$63,590 – $72,000
The Jackson Laboratory10$65,589$65,589 – $65,589
University of Pittsburgh51$65,416$62,886 – $67,650
University of Florida20$65,000$61,971 – $66,493
Mississippi State University13$64,854$60,600 – $67,000
The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College4$64,572$62,652 – $67,869

Companies filing the most Postdoctoral Associate H-1Bs

CompanyFilingsMedianMiddle 50%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology56$71,494$71,000 – $74,263
University of Pittsburgh51$65,416$62,886 – $67,650
Weill Cornell Medical College44$79,596$74,692 – $82,598
Duke University43$68,435$65,837 – $70,832
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey37$67,378$65,205 – $69,624
New York University35$68,698$66,547 – $74,657
Yale University34$70,020$69,500 – $72,000
Cornell University32$69,470$63,249 – $73,315
University of Minnesota28$62,838$61,008 – $66,470
Research Foundation for the State University of New York23$64,000$61,148 – $65,000
Trustees of Boston University22$70,000$70,000 – $72,625
University of Colorado22$69,451$66,515 – $73,440
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University22$68,053$65,270 – $68,053
W.M. Rice University21$63,000$58,000 – $65,640
University of Florida20$65,000$61,971 – $66,493

Top cities

CityFilingsMedian
New York, NY94$75,282
Cambridge, MA75$73,308
Pittsburgh, PA51$65,416
Durham, NC42$68,218
New Haven, CT35$70,040
Ithaca, NY33$70,450
Piscataway, NJ26$67,787
Boulder, CO22$69,451
La Jolla, CA21$70,886
Houston, TX21$62,421
Boston, MA20$70,000
Stony Brook, NY20$64,025
Minneapolis, MN18$62,652
Blacksburg, VA18$68,053
Rochester, NY18$63,000

Wage levels

Level I86% · 527
Level II9% · 54
Level III4% · 27
Level IV0% · 2

Prevailing-wage level the employer selected (I = entry, IV = fully competent).