Role Filing Pattern
Associate Specialist appears as a active H-1B LCA job title in the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 67 public LCA records. These filings are not visa approvals, job openings, or hiring counts.
Associate Specialist H-1B LCA Filings
SOC Code: 19-1021.00
SOC Category: Biochemists and Biophysicists
LCA FY2024-FY2026 · PERM FY2024-FY2025 · USCIS Employer Data Hub 2023 · BLS OEWS May 2023
Updated 2026-05-23
Associate Specialist (SOC 19-1021.00, Biochemists and Biophysicists) appears as an active H-1B LCA role across the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 67 filing records. Filed base wages span $73,000 to $83,600 from the 10th to 90th percentile, with a median of $83,600. 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
$83,600
H-1B LCA Filings
67LCA records
Top 10% Salary
$83,600
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 Francisco, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE, University of California, Davis, Regents of the University of California at Riverside, and University of California at Santa Barbara. 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 San Francisco, CA, IRVINE, CA, Davis, CA, RIVERSIDE, CA, and Santa Barbara, 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$73,000
P25$73,900
Median$83,600
P75$82,100
Max$83,600
Top Employers by LCA Filings
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Filed Wage by City
- San Francisco, CA$84,30042
- IRVINE, CA$83,6007
- Santa Barbara, CA$82,2853
- RIVERSIDE, CA$75,6003
- Oakland, CA$74,6502
- Davis, CA$73,4504
- Modesto, CAN/A1
- Atlanta, GAN/A1
- Merced, CAN/A1
- Berkeley, CAN/A1
- Salinas, CAN/A1
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the median filed H-1B LCA wage for a Associate Specialist?
The median filed base salary for Associate Specialist H-1B LCA records is $83,600 per year.
How many Associate Specialist H-1B LCA filings are in this dataset?
There are 67 Labor Condition Applications filed for the Associate Specialist role in the available dataset.
Which employers file H-1B LCAs for Associate Specialist?
Top employers filing LCAs for Associate Specialist include: University of California, San Francisco, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE, University of California, Davis.
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