Role Filing Pattern
Research Fellow appears as a active H-1B LCA job title in the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 614 public LCA records. These filings are not visa approvals, job openings, or hiring counts.
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
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 614 filing records. Filed base wages span $61,572 to $103,064 from the 10th to 90th percentile, with a median of $78,280. 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
$78,280
H-1B LCA Filings
614LCA records
Top 10% Salary
$103,064
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 National Institutes of Health, HHS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, General Hospital Corporation, Children's Hospital Corporation, 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 Boston, MA, Bethesda, MD, Rochester, MN, Charlestown, MA, and Cincinnati, OH. 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$61,572
P25$69,701
Median$78,280
P75$88,854
Max$103,064
Top Employers by LCA Filings
- 132
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute$76,19274
- General Hospital Corporation$71,75074
- 68
- Harvard University$77,50061
- Mayo Clinic$68,18256
- Brigham and Women's Hospital$70,08048
- 16
- 15
- 7
- 7
- 6
- 4
- 3
- 3
Filed Wage by City
- Washington, DC$127,0006
- Bethesda, MD$104,04298
- Rockville, MD$99,53310
- Research Triangle Park, NC$97,8308
- Baltimore, MD$94,50010
- Boston, MA$76,000312
- Austin, TX$72,19715
- New York, NY$72,0009
- Charlestown, MA$71,75028
- Cambridge, MA$71,4067
- Rochester, MN$68,18247
- Winston Salem, NC$64,8964
- Cincinnati, OH$64,36616
- 6
- 4
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the median filed H-1B LCA wage for a Research Fellow?
The median filed base salary for Research Fellow H-1B LCA records is $78,280 per year.
How many Research Fellow H-1B LCA filings are in this dataset?
There are 614 Labor Condition Applications filed for the Research Fellow role in the available dataset.
Which employers file H-1B LCAs for Research Fellow?
Top employers filing LCAs for Research Fellow include: National Institutes of Health, HHS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, General Hospital Corporation.
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