Role Filing Pattern
Scientist appears as a active H-1B LCA job title in the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 148 public LCA records. These filings are not visa approvals, job openings, or hiring counts.
Scientist H-1B LCA Filings
SOC Code: 19-1023.00
SOC Category: Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists
LCA FY2024-FY2026 · PERM FY2024-FY2025 · USCIS Employer Data Hub 2023 · BLS OEWS May 2023
Updated 2026-05-23
Scientist (SOC 19-1023.00, Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists) appears as an active H-1B LCA role across the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 148 filing records. Filed base wages span $80,976 to $149,000 from the 10th to 90th percentile, with a median of $120,000. 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
$120,000
H-1B LCA Filings
148LCA records
Top 10% Salary
$149,000
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 ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL, Kelly Services, Inc., California Institute of Technology/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Children's Hospital Corporation, and The Curators of the University of Missouri. 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 Memphis, TN, Boston, MA, Bethesda, MD, South San Francisco, CA, and Cambridge, MA. 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$80,976
P25$86,320
Median$120,000
P75$130,000
Max$149,000
Top Employers by LCA Filings
- 25
- 7
- 6
- 5
- 5
- 5
- MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$140,4003
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute$100,0003
- Cognizance Technologies LLC$130,0003
- Uber Technologies, Inc.$149,0003
- Frontage Laboratories, Inc.$73,4203
- 3
- Sutro Biopharma, Inc.$141,0662
- 2
Filed Wage by City
- New York, NY$149,0003
- East Lansing, MI$140,4003
- South San Francisco, CA$139,0009
- Pasadena, CA$135,6586
- Silver Spring, MD$130,0003
- San Diego, CA$124,6854
- Cambridge, MA$120,0009
- Redwood City, CA$115,6903
- Memphis, TN$86,32025
- Columbia, MO$56,3685
- Philadelphia, PA$54,5382
- Boston, MAN/A12
- Bethesda, MDN/A11
- 2
- 2
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the median filed H-1B LCA wage for a Scientist?
The median filed base salary for Scientist H-1B LCA records is $120,000 per year.
How many Scientist H-1B LCA filings are in this dataset?
There are 148 Labor Condition Applications filed for the Scientist role in the available dataset.
Which employers file H-1B LCAs for Scientist?
Top employers filing LCAs for Scientist include: ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL, Kelly Services, Inc., California Institute of Technology/Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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