H-1B Salary Lookup

Senior Scientist H-1B Salary by Company

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

$125,000Median salary
$100,00025th percentile
$145,00075th percentile
422Filings

Top-paying companies for Senior Scientist

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

CompanyFilingsMedianMiddle 50%
Uber Technologies4$192,050$188,825 – $196,600
Calico Life Sciences3$180,000$178,500 – $180,500
Honda Research Institute USA3$170,300$170,300 – $173,700
Takeda Development Center Americas6$160,845$157,560 – $162,760
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company10$155,776$148,898 – $162,768
Alnylam US7$155,000$151,000 – $162,500
Amgen16$150,156$144,975 – $155,402
Simulations Plus3$147,300$139,150 – $162,900
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals31$144,733$142,114 – $148,180
AbbVie Bioresearch Center8$142,500$135,750 – $146,766
Janssen Research & Development4$142,200$135,302 – $143,825
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals3$142,000$141,250 – $143,500
AbbVie13$138,000$132,275 – $155,000
Cepheid3$135,635$132,842 – $138,554
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals5$129,168$119,025 – $136,325
Sanofi Vaccines US5$128,814$101,026 – $134,971
Pfizer6$128,358$128,152 – $131,034
Avery Bio3$125,000$125,000 – $131,000
Illumina3$116,376$114,838 – $127,577
Sanofi US Services10$110,167$102,487 – $121,066
Eli Lilly and Company8$106,982$105,730 – $112,222
Zoetis4$104,500$100,750 – $105,000
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital12$104,000$104,000 – $104,000
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia5$101,379$94,723 – $106,808
TCG GreenChem3$95,316$93,408 – $97,658

Companies filing the most Senior Scientist H-1Bs

CompanyFilingsMedianMiddle 50%
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals31$144,733$142,114 – $148,180
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research25$91,978$91,978 – $108,462
Washington University25$72,500$70,000 – $78,000
Amgen16$150,156$144,975 – $155,402
AbbVie13$138,000$132,275 – $155,000
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital12$104,000$104,000 – $104,000
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company10$155,776$148,898 – $162,768
Sanofi US Services10$110,167$102,487 – $121,066
AbbVie Bioresearch Center8$142,500$135,750 – $146,766
Eli Lilly and Company8$106,982$105,730 – $112,222
Alnylam US7$155,000$151,000 – $162,500
Frontage Laboratories7$83,031$82,116 – $86,851
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai6$91,800$88,294 – $93,600
Pfizer6$128,358$128,152 – $131,034
Takeda Development Center Americas6$160,845$157,560 – $162,760

Top cities

CityFilingsMedian
Cambridge, MA59$129,386
Tarrytown, NY30$144,742
Saint Louis, MO24$72,300
South San Francisco, CA15$159,895
Memphis, TN12$104,000
Waltham, MA11$113,464
North Chicago, IL10$136,500
New York, NY10$96,800
Thousand Oaks, CA10$149,827
Boston, MA9$125,000
San Diego, CA7$122,000
Worcester, MA6$142,695
Exton, PA6$83,031
Watertown, MA6$112,810
Emeryville, CA5$124,842

Wage levels

Level I7% · 29
Level II38% · 160
Level III33% · 139
Level IV21% · 89

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