Role Filing Pattern
Assistant Professor appears as a frequent H-1B LCA job title in the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 3,859 public LCA records. These filings are not visa approvals, job openings, or hiring counts.
Assistant Professor H-1B LCA Filings
SOC Code: 25-1067.00
SOC Category: Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary
LCA FY2024-FY2026 · PERM FY2024-FY2025 · USCIS Employer Data Hub 2023 · BLS OEWS May 2023
Updated 2026-05-23
Assistant Professor (SOC 25-1067.00, Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary) appears as a frequent H-1B LCA role across the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 3,859 filing records. Filed base wages span $72,000 to $208,333 from the 10th to 90th percentile, with a median of $118,500. These are filed LCA records for this role, not visa approvals, hires, or open roles, and the figures generally exclude equity, bonus, and benefits.
Median Salary
$118,500
H-1B LCA Filings
3,859LCA records
Top 10% Salary
$208,333
LCA filings are not visa approvals or open roles — see why this matters
Public filing data is normalized for browsing. LCA filings are not visa approvals or job openings, PERM filings are not individual green-card success rates, and salary figures generally use the lower bound of filed wage ranges and exclude equity, bonus, and benefits.
Employer Concentration
The strongest employer filing concentration for this role comes from The University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of Minnesota, University of Michigan, Purdue University, and University of Wisconsin System. Use this as a filing-volume signal, not as a guarantee of current hiring or petition outcomes.
Location Pattern
Filed worksites for this role are concentrated in places such as Houston, TX, Birmingham, AL, New York, NY, Atlanta, GA, and Boston, MA. City-level wage differences can reflect seniority, worksite rules, employer mix, and local labor market differences.
Salary Caveat
The median shown here is a filed base wage signal from public LCA records. It generally excludes equity, bonus, benefits, and compensation changes after filing.
Salary Distribution (Base)
LCA filingsQuartile breakdown of filed annual base wages.
Min$72,000
P25$86,000
Median$118,500
P75$135,000
Max$208,333
Top Employers by LCA Filings
- 70
- University of Minnesota$114,34561
- University of Michigan$131,30658
- Purdue University$120,38358
- University of Wisconsin System$130,00057
- The Florida State University$98,66854
- 53
- UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA$101,08051
- MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$103,53046
- University of Illinois$112,50045
- Johns Hopkins University$166,00544
- 43
- Texas A&M University$112,03642
- 41
- Yale University$157,50038
Filed Wage by City
- Birmingham, AL$225,014112
- Baltimore, MD$173,50054
- New York, NY$164,80090
- Boston, MA$158,20059
- New Haven, CT$149,05040
- Ann Arbor, MI$137,03940
- Los Angeles, CA$135,90041
- Madison, WI$134,93957
- Chicago, IL$132,50052
- Houston, TX$130,000115
- Atlanta, GA$129,15063
- West Lafayette, IN$120,41055
- East Lansing, MI$103,00045
- Gainesville, FL$101,08041
- Tallahassee, FL$98,66853
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the median filed H-1B LCA wage for a Assistant Professor?
The median filed base salary for Assistant Professor H-1B LCA records is $118,500 per year.
How many Assistant Professor H-1B LCA filings are in this dataset?
There are 3,859 Labor Condition Applications filed for the Assistant Professor role in the available dataset.
Which employers file H-1B LCAs for Assistant Professor?
Top employers filing LCAs for Assistant Professor include: The University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of Minnesota, University of Michigan.
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