Role Filing Pattern
Senior Research Associate appears as a active H-1B LCA job title in the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 164 public LCA records. These filings are not visa approvals, job openings, or hiring counts.
Senior Research Associate H-1B LCA Filings
SOC Code: 19-1012.00
SOC Category: Food Scientists and Technologists
LCA FY2024-FY2026 · PERM FY2024-FY2025 · USCIS Employer Data Hub 2023 · BLS OEWS May 2023
Updated 2026-05-23
Senior Research Associate (SOC 19-1012.00, Food Scientists and Technologists) appears as an active H-1B LCA role across the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 164 filing records. Filed base wages span $61,008 to $125,000 from the 10th to 90th percentile, with a median of $97,100. 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
$97,100
H-1B LCA Filings
164LCA records
Top 10% Salary
$125,000
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 Case Western Reserve University, Purdue University, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Bernstein Institutional Services LLC, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute & 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 New York, NY, Cambridge, MA, Cleveland, OH, Dallas, TX, and Chicago, IL. 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$61,008
P25$72,800
Median$97,100
P75$105,851
Max$125,000
Top Employers by LCA Filings
- 9
- Purdue University$80,1007
- 7
- 7
- 5
- Northwestern University$89,0825
- 5
- Tessera Therapeutics, Inc.$93,0003
- 3
- Weill Cornell Medical College$135,0003
- 3
- 3
- 3
- 3
- 3
Filed Wage by City
- New York, NY$132,50018
- Boston, MA$110,8434
- San Francisco, CA$110,0005
- Cambridge, MA$97,90014
- Portland, OR$94,9603
- Washington, DC$94,5003
- Somerville, MA$93,0003
- Chicago, IL$87,5008
- West Lafayette, IN$84,3026
- Blacksburg, VA$74,3884
- Cleveland, OH$72,8009
- Dallas, TX$69,5168
- Lincoln, NEN/A4
- Waltham, MAN/A4
- Athens, GAN/A3
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the median filed H-1B LCA wage for a Senior Research Associate?
The median filed base salary for Senior Research Associate H-1B LCA records is $97,100 per year.
How many Senior Research Associate H-1B LCA filings are in this dataset?
There are 164 Labor Condition Applications filed for the Senior Research Associate role in the available dataset.
Which employers file H-1B LCAs for Senior Research Associate?
Top employers filing LCAs for Senior Research Associate include: Case Western Reserve University, Purdue University, UT Southwestern Medical Center.
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