Role Filing Pattern
Postdoctoral Scientist appears as a active H-1B LCA job title in the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 51 public LCA records. These filings are not visa approvals, job openings, or hiring counts.
Postdoctoral Scientist H-1B LCA Filings
SOC Code: 19-2031.00
SOC Category: Chemists
LCA FY2024-FY2026 · PERM FY2024-FY2025 · USCIS Employer Data Hub 2023 · BLS OEWS May 2023
Updated 2026-05-23
Postdoctoral Scientist (SOC 19-2031.00, Chemists) appears as an active H-1B LCA role across the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 51 filing records. Filed base wages span $62,400 to $86,091 from the 10th to 90th percentile, with a median of $83,513. 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
$83,513
H-1B LCA Filings
51LCA records
Top 10% Salary
$86,091
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 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Montclair State University, and Elanco Animal Health, Inc.. 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 Los Angeles, CA, New York, NY, Oklahoma City, OK, Ashburn, VA, and Montclair, NJ. 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$62,400
P25$68,182
Median$83,513
P75$81,000
Max$86,091
Top Employers by LCA Filings
- 26
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$70,99015
- 5
- Montclair State University$65,0012
- Elanco Animal Health, Inc.$70,2421
- 1
Filed Wage by City
- New York, NY$90,5786
- Worcester, MA$84,2962
- Dallas, TX$83,5841
- Miami, FL$80,0001
- Urbana, IL$78,0001
- Los Angeles, CA$70,99013
- Rochester Hills, MI$70,2421
- West Hollywood, CA$69,5862
- Montclair, NJ$65,0012
- Oklahoma City, OK$56,3685
- Ashburn, VAN/A5
- Boston, MAN/A2
- Stanford, CAN/A2
- Durham, NCN/A2
- 2
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the median filed H-1B LCA wage for a Postdoctoral Scientist?
The median filed base salary for Postdoctoral Scientist H-1B LCA records is $83,513 per year.
How many Postdoctoral Scientist H-1B LCA filings are in this dataset?
There are 51 Labor Condition Applications filed for the Postdoctoral Scientist role in the available dataset.
Which employers file H-1B LCAs for Postdoctoral Scientist?
Top employers filing LCAs for Postdoctoral Scientist include: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.
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