Research Scientist H-1B Salary by Company

2,405 certified full-time H-1B filings for "Research Scientist" and close variants, decided Jul 1, 2025 – Jun 30, 2026. Most common occupation codes: Computer and Information Research Scientists, Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists, Biochemists and Biophysicists.

$164,403Median salary

$82,56325th percentile

$205,00075th percentile

2,405Filings

Top-paying companies for Research Scientist

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

Company	Filings	Median	Middle 50%
Utopai Studios	3	$400,000	$318,893 – $450,000
Reve AI	3	$400,000	$400,000 – $415,000
ByteDance	35	$337,000	$280,100 – $390,800
MBZUAI Labs USA	10	$250,000	$240,000 – $275,000
Waymo	8	$240,000	$205,000 – $250,000
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence	5	$240,000	$231,250 – $240,000
AppLovin	4	$238,900	$228,625 – $242,500
Netflix	9	$237,786	$223,579 – $237,786
Zoom Communications	3	$237,786	$207,896 – $248,893
TT Commerce & Global Services	3	$231,000	$216,047 – $242,755
Virtue AI	7	$230,000	$220,000 – $237,500
Renaissance Technologies	3	$229,219	$222,489 – $229,219
Meshy	3	$220,000	$220,000 – $230,000
TikTok	12	$211,200	$177,001 – $265,000
Anysphere	7	$209,082	$190,352 – $209,082
Meta Platforms	644	$207,502	$186,200 – $222,950
Google	200	$205,000	$200,000 – $236,000
Toyota Research Institute	5	$205,000	$201,094 – $205,000
IBM	14	$203,910	$200,038 – $226,270
Otter.ai	3	$202,000	$202,000 – $202,000
Salesforce	3	$201,094	$182,748 – $213,086
Yahoo Holdings	3	$201,094	$155,552 – $201,094
Snowflake	3	$194,834	$186,420 – $204,506
Lawrence Livermore National Security	34	$194,226	$184,478 – $209,130
Luma AI	6	$189,711	$187,500 – $215,665

Companies filing the most Research Scientist H-1Bs

Company	Filings	Median	Middle 50%
Meta Platforms	644	$207,502	$186,200 – $222,950
Google	200	$205,000	$200,000 – $236,000
Nvidia	80	$168,000	$164,403 – $192,827
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	64	$83,075	$78,242 – $95,758
Amazon.com Services	50	$166,300	$154,500 – $190,716
ByteDance	35	$337,000	$280,100 – $390,800
Intel	34	$156,640	$133,575 – $191,975
Lawrence Livermore National Security	34	$194,226	$184,478 – $209,130
The University of Virginia	30	$68,350	$65,500 – $76,550
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	28	$77,234	$76,050 – $79,717
UT Southwestern Medical Center	28	$70,904	$69,750 – $73,500
NYU Grossman School of Medicine	22	$96,145	$82,867 – $114,595
Trustees of Boston University	20	$81,328	$74,110 – $89,100
Cleveland Clinic Foundation	19	$72,000	$67,704 – $73,831
The Ohio State University	19	$85,075	$76,034 – $97,391

Top cities

City	Filings	Median
Menlo Park, CA	314	$188,402
New York, NY	235	$190,883
Mountain View, CA	135	$222,000
Cambridge, MA	110	$93,129
Bellevue, WA	94	$209,351
Sunnyvale, CA	90	$214,032
Santa Clara, CA	66	$168,000
Seattle, WA	66	$176,890
Boston, MA	64	$80,590
Houston, TX	63	$77,788
San Francisco, CA	47	$209,082
San Jose, CA	44	$305,000
Columbus, OH	35	$80,000
Livermore, CA	32	$193,986
Redmond, WA	31	$210,000

Wage levels

Level I28% · 621

Level II44% · 984

Level III16% · 360

Level IV11% · 251

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