Staff Scientist H-1B Salary by Company

408 certified full-time H-1B filings for "Staff Scientist" 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.

$79,010Median salary

$69,88825th percentile

$99,61275th percentile

408Filings

Top-paying companies for Staff Scientist

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

Company	Filings	Median	Middle 50%
Lawrence Livermore National Security	3	$202,798	$199,984 – $210,027
Leland Stanford Jr. Univ/SLAC National Accelerator Lab	5	$160,000	$148,000 – $160,000
National Institutes of Health, HHS	40	$125,615	$121,816 – $132,648
Corning Research & Development	6	$124,217	$121,635 – $127,646
Illumina	3	$118,200	$117,288 – $126,752
Jefferson Science Associates	3	$113,850	$110,067 – $120,365
Children's Hospital	3	$100,000	$93,500 – $102,500
Children's National Medical Center	6	$97,500	$93,996 – $100,380
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center	10	$87,206	$84,406 – $108,236
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	6	$85,988	$84,885 – $87,792
Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope	25	$83,459	$80,443 – $88,266
City of Hope National Medical Center	9	$82,500	$80,443 – $100,000
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	13	$82,000	$72,000 – $107,000
The University of Chicago	22	$80,392	$76,341 – $84,594
California Institute of Technology	7	$80,000	$74,500 – $99,111
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute	6	$80,000	$79,062 – $80,000
The Scripps Research Institute	16	$78,000	$78,000 – $85,322
Vanderbilt University	4	$77,500	$75,775 – $80,281
Albert Einstein College of Medicine	15	$75,000	$74,730 – $78,155
Baylor College of Medicine	14	$74,500	$70,500 – $77,428
The Translational Genomics Research Institute	3	$73,861	$71,299 – $74,734
Texas Biomedical Research Institute	7	$73,570	$73,285 – $78,954
Vanderbilt University Medical Center	4	$73,490	$72,583 – $74,398
University of Florida	5	$72,409	$69,000 – $79,558
Medical University of South Carolina and Affiliates	5	$71,543	$70,450 – $73,923

Companies filing the most Staff Scientist H-1Bs

Company	Filings	Median	Middle 50%
Washington University	103	$67,000	$63,120 – $70,000
National Institutes of Health, HHS	40	$125,615	$121,816 – $132,648
Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope	25	$83,459	$80,443 – $88,266
The University of Chicago	22	$80,392	$76,341 – $84,594
The Scripps Research Institute	16	$78,000	$78,000 – $85,322
Albert Einstein College of Medicine	15	$75,000	$74,730 – $78,155
Baylor College of Medicine	14	$74,500	$70,500 – $77,428
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	13	$82,000	$72,000 – $107,000
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center	10	$87,206	$84,406 – $108,236
City of Hope National Medical Center	9	$82,500	$80,443 – $100,000
University of Rochester	9	$63,000	$62,500 – $63,000
California Institute of Technology	7	$80,000	$74,500 – $99,111
Texas Biomedical Research Institute	7	$73,570	$73,285 – $78,954
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center	7	$70,000	$67,366 – $72,500
Children's National Medical Center	6	$97,500	$93,996 – $100,380

Top cities

City	Filings	Median
Saint Louis, MO	104	$67,000
Bethesda, MD	41	$125,453
Duarte, CA	27	$82,500
La Jolla, CA	25	$80,000
Chicago, IL	22	$80,392
Boston, MA	16	$91,000
Bronx, NY	15	$75,000
Houston, TX	14	$74,500
Seattle, WA	12	$90,097
Rochester, NY	9	$63,000
Washington, DC	9	$93,662
Nashville, TN	8	$74,398
Philadelphia, PA	7	$84,885
San Antonio, TX	7	$73,570
Oklahoma City, OK	7	$70,000

Wage levels

Level I41% · 147

Level II37% · 132

Level III11% · 38

Level IV11% · 40

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