Role Filing Pattern
Assistant Project Scientist appears as a active H-1B LCA job title in the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 171 public LCA records. These filings are not visa approvals, job openings, or hiring counts.
Assistant Project Scientist H-1B LCA Filings
SOC Code: 19-1029.00
SOC Category: Biological Scientists, All Other
LCA FY2024-FY2026 · PERM FY2024-FY2025 · USCIS Employer Data Hub 2023 · BLS OEWS May 2023
Updated 2026-05-23
Assistant Project Scientist (SOC 19-1029.00, Biological Scientists, All Other) appears as an active H-1B LCA role across the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 171 filing records. Filed base wages span $74,100 to $97,000 from the 10th to 90th percentile, with a median of $85,900. 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
$85,900
H-1B LCA Filings
171LCA records
Top 10% Salary
$97,000
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 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO, University of California, Davis, University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, Berkeley, and UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE. 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 La Jolla, CA, Los Angeles, CA, Davis, CA, Berkeley, CA, and IRVINE, CA. 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$74,100
P25$78,000
Median$85,900
P75$86,600
Max$97,000
Top Employers by LCA Filings
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Filed Wage by City
- Richmond, CA$98,5502
- Berkeley, CA$98,50023
- Santa Cruz, CA$93,7003
- La Jolla, CA$87,95056
- San Diego, CA$85,0005
- Davis, CA$82,90025
- Los Angeles, CA$82,50028
- IRVINE, CA$82,10017
- Riverside, CA$81,4506
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the median filed H-1B LCA wage for a Assistant Project Scientist?
The median filed base salary for Assistant Project Scientist H-1B LCA records is $85,900 per year.
How many Assistant Project Scientist H-1B LCA filings are in this dataset?
There are 171 Labor Condition Applications filed for the Assistant Project Scientist role in the available dataset.
Which employers file H-1B LCAs for Assistant Project Scientist?
Top employers filing LCAs for Assistant Project Scientist include: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO, University of California, Davis, University of California, Los Angeles.
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
60 LCA filings
$85,000 median wage
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University of California, Davis
30 LCA filings
$84,900 median wage
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University of California, Los Angeles
28 LCA filings
$82,500 median wage
City filing this role
La Jolla, CA
56 LCA filings
$87,950 median wage