Role Filing Pattern
Postdoctoral Research Fellow appears as a active H-1B LCA job title in the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 369 public LCA records. These filings are not visa approvals, job openings, or hiring counts.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow H-1B LCA Filings
SOC Code: 19-1042.00
SOC Category: Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists
LCA FY2024-FY2026 · PERM FY2024-FY2025 · USCIS Employer Data Hub 2023 · BLS OEWS May 2023
Updated 2026-05-23
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (SOC 19-1042.00, Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists) appears as an active H-1B LCA role across the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 369 filing records. Filed base wages span $56,484 to $74,088 from the 10th to 90th percentile, with a median of $67,000. 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
$67,000
H-1B LCA Filings
369LCA records
Top 10% Salary
$74,088
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 Michigan, Johns Hopkins University, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, and Harvard University. 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 Ann Arbor, MI, Baltimore, MD, Houston, TX, Boston, MA, and Seattle, WA. 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$56,484
P25$61,008
Median$67,000
P75$68,599
Max$74,088
Top Employers by LCA Filings
- University of Michigan$65,640163
- Johns Hopkins University$65,00076
- 25
- 12
- 11
- 10
- George Mason University$87,8899
- 8
- 6
- 5
- 5
- Tufts Medical Center, Inc.$61,0084
- 3
- Brigham and Women's Hospital$71,4063
- Kennedy Krieger Institute$64,3562
Filed Wage by City
- San Jose, CA$471,0482
- Fairfax, VA$87,8897
- Seattle, WA$72,23410
- PRINCETON, NJ$71,5005
- Boston, MA$71,40624
- Ann Arbor, MI$65,640156
- Baltimore, MD$65,00076
- WINSTON SALEM, NC$65,0003
- Houston, TX$61,57225
- Jackson, MS$61,0083
- FARGO, ND$51,5008
- 10
- 6
- Dearborn, MIN/A5
- Flint, MIN/A2
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the median filed H-1B LCA wage for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow?
The median filed base salary for Postdoctoral Research Fellow H-1B LCA records is $67,000 per year.
How many Postdoctoral Research Fellow H-1B LCA filings are in this dataset?
There are 369 Labor Condition Applications filed for the Postdoctoral Research Fellow role in the available dataset.
Which employers file H-1B LCAs for Postdoctoral Research Fellow?
Top employers filing LCAs for Postdoctoral Research Fellow include: University of Michigan, Johns Hopkins University, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
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