Role Filing Pattern
Postdoctoral Scholar appears as a active H-1B LCA job title in the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 603 public LCA records. These filings are not visa approvals, job openings, or hiring counts.
Postdoctoral Scholar H-1B LCA Filings
SOC Code: 17-2144.00
SOC Category: Mechanical Engineers, R&D
LCA FY2024-FY2026 · PERM FY2024-FY2025 · USCIS Employer Data Hub 2023 · BLS OEWS May 2023
Updated 2026-05-23
Postdoctoral Scholar (SOC 17-2144.00, Mechanical Engineers, R&D) appears as an active H-1B LCA role across the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 603 filing records. Filed base wages span $58,764 to $80,034 from the 10th to 90th percentile, with a median of $72,000. 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
$72,000
H-1B LCA Filings
603LCA records
Top 10% Salary
$80,034
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, Northwestern University, University of California, Davis, University of California, Los Angeles, and The Pennsylvania State 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 San Francisco, CA, Chicago, IL, Los Angeles, CA, Evanston, IL, and Davis, 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$58,764
P25$62,232
Median$72,000
P75$75,000
Max$80,034
Top Employers by LCA Filings
- 94
- Northwestern University$70,00076
- 55
- 48
- 40
- The University of Chicago$71,01840
- University of Washington$75,78035
- Oregon State University$63,12031
- 20
- 17
- The Florida State University$56,62816
- 16
- University of Chicago$65,65013
- 12
- Tufts University$77,67612
Filed Wage by City
- Santa Barbara, CA$80,03417
- San Francisco, CA$77,32797
- IRVINE, CA$77,25316
- Seattle, WA$75,78035
- Davis, CA$75,38036
- Los Angeles, CA$74,56949
- Cleveland, OH$72,00020
- Sacramento, CA$71,90813
- Evanston, IL$70,00040
- Chicago, IL$68,96487
- Hershey, PA$68,22014
- Corvallis, OR$62,67626
- University Park, PA$61,25422
- Memphis, TN$58,61912
- Tallahassee, FL$56,88017
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the median filed H-1B LCA wage for a Postdoctoral Scholar?
The median filed base salary for Postdoctoral Scholar H-1B LCA records is $72,000 per year.
How many Postdoctoral Scholar H-1B LCA filings are in this dataset?
There are 603 Labor Condition Applications filed for the Postdoctoral Scholar role in the available dataset.
Which employers file H-1B LCAs for Postdoctoral Scholar?
Top employers filing LCAs for Postdoctoral Scholar include: University of California, San Francisco, Northwestern University, University of California, Davis.
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