Role Filing Pattern
Project Scientist appears as a limited H-1B LCA job title in the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 40 public LCA records. These filings are not visa approvals, job openings, or hiring counts.
Project Scientist H-1B LCA Filings
SOC Code: 19-1029.02
SOC Category: Molecular and Cellular Biologists
LCA FY2024-FY2026 · PERM FY2024-FY2025 · USCIS Employer Data Hub 2023 · BLS OEWS May 2023
Updated 2026-05-23
Project Scientist (SOC 19-1029.02, Molecular and Cellular Biologists) appears as a limited H-1B LCA role across the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 40 filing records. Filed base wages span $70,990 to $115,500 from the 10th to 90th percentile, with a median of $95,117. 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
$95,117
H-1B LCA Filings
40LCA records
Top 10% Salary
$115,500
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 Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of California at Santa Barbara, Leland Stanford Jr. Univ/SLAC National Accelerator Lab, Theiss Research, and University of California, Los Angeles. 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, Santa Barbara, CA, Menlo Park, CA, Gaithersburg, MD, 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$70,990
P25$75,774
Median$95,117
P75$96,800
Max$115,500
Top Employers by LCA Filings
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$93,43416
- 9
- 5
- Theiss Research$79,7002
- 2
- University of California, Davis$120,2002
- The Jackson Laboratory$72,8621
- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE$115,5001
- Carnegie Mellon University$80,0001
Filed Wage by City
- Davis, CA$120,2002
- IRVINE, CA$115,5001
- Menlo Park, CA$100,0004
- Seattle, WA$97,5001
- Los Angeles, CA$93,43415
- Boston, MA$93,4341
- Santa Barbara, CA$88,1009
- Pittsburgh, PA$80,0001
- Gaithersburg, MD$79,7002
- Bar Harbor, ME$72,8621
- 1
- 1
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the median filed H-1B LCA wage for a Project Scientist?
The median filed base salary for Project Scientist H-1B LCA records is $95,117 per year.
How many Project Scientist H-1B LCA filings are in this dataset?
There are 40 Labor Condition Applications filed for the Project Scientist role in the available dataset.
Which employers file H-1B LCAs for Project Scientist?
Top employers filing LCAs for Project Scientist include: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of California at Santa Barbara, Leland Stanford Jr. Univ/SLAC National Accelerator Lab.
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