Role Filing Pattern
Associate Scientist appears as a active H-1B LCA job title in the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 116 public LCA records. These filings are not visa approvals, job openings, or hiring counts.
Associate Scientist H-1B LCA Filings
SOC Code: 19-2012.00
SOC Category: Physicists
LCA FY2024-FY2026 · PERM FY2024-FY2025 · USCIS Employer Data Hub 2023 · BLS OEWS May 2023
Updated 2026-05-23
Associate Scientist (SOC 19-2012.00, Physicists) appears as an active H-1B LCA role across the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 116 filing records. Filed base wages span $73,000 to $115,694 from the 10th to 90th percentile, with a median of $99,362. 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
$99,362
H-1B LCA Filings
116LCA records
Top 10% Salary
$115,694
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 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC, Temple University--A Commonwealth University, ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL, and Fermi Research Alliance, LLC. 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 New York, NY, Batavia, IL, Cambridge, MA, Philadelphia, PA, and Memphis, TN. 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$73,000
P25$81,300
Median$99,362
P75$101,442
Max$115,694
Top Employers by LCA Filings
- 18
- 10
- 9
- 9
- Fermi Research Alliance, LLC$85,3008
- Impossible Foods Inc.$107,5054
- 4
- UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$88,0003
- Ring Therapeutics, Inc.$103,9003
- 3
- Site Tx, Inc.$112,2583
- 3
- UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE$81,0992
- 2
Filed Wage by City
- San Francisco, CA$112,2584
- Cambridge, MA$111,00014
- Redwood City, CA$107,5054
- Oceanside, CA$101,4421
- Batavia, IL$99,36218
- New York, NY$88,40019
- Miami, FL$88,0003
- Tarrytown, NY$84,4553
- Greenbelt, MD$81,0991
- Philadelphia, PA$73,0009
- Memphis, TNN/A9
- 4
- Waltham, MAN/A2
- Bethesda, MDN/A2
- Boston, MAN/A2
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the median filed H-1B LCA wage for a Associate Scientist?
The median filed base salary for Associate Scientist H-1B LCA records is $99,362 per year.
How many Associate Scientist H-1B LCA filings are in this dataset?
There are 116 Labor Condition Applications filed for the Associate Scientist role in the available dataset.
Which employers file H-1B LCAs for Associate Scientist?
Top employers filing LCAs for Associate Scientist include: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC, Temple University--A Commonwealth University.
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