Role Filing Pattern
Senior Scientist appears as a active H-1B LCA job title in the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 134 public LCA records. These filings are not visa approvals, job openings, or hiring counts.
Senior 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
Senior Scientist (SOC 19-1029.02, Molecular and Cellular Biologists) appears as an active H-1B LCA role across the available FY2024-FY2026 dataset, with 134 filing records. Filed base wages span $70,000 to $145,000 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
134LCA records
Top 10% Salary
$145,000
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 Washington University, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, The University of Virginia, 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 St. Louis, MO, New York, NY, Cambridge, MA, Columbia, MO, and Charlottesville, VA. 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$70,000
P25$80,000
Median$120,000
P75$133,078
Max$145,000
Top Employers by LCA Filings
- Washington University$77,00027
- 7
- AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP$128,1005
- The University of Virginia$102,2504
- 4
- Eli Lilly and Company$105,3803
- 2
- 2
- Just-Evotec Biologics, Inc.$135,2002
- 2
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Company$136,8292
- Sanofi US Services Inc.$100,7632
- 2
- 2
Filed Wage by City
- South San Francisco, CA$143,9392
- Cambridge, MA$143,3747
- Seattle, WA$135,2003
- Gaithersburg, MD$127,2033
- Madison, WI$125,0002
- Waltham, MA$119,0064
- Boston, MA$105,3802
- Charlottesville, VA$102,2504
- New York, NY$100,0009
- St. Louis, MO$77,00025
- Columbia, MO$70,0005
- Omaha, NEN/A2
- 2
- 2
- 2
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the median filed H-1B LCA wage for a Senior Scientist?
The median filed base salary for Senior Scientist H-1B LCA records is $120,000 per year.
How many Senior Scientist H-1B LCA filings are in this dataset?
There are 134 Labor Condition Applications filed for the Senior Scientist role in the available dataset.
Which employers file H-1B LCAs for Senior Scientist?
Top employers filing LCAs for Senior Scientist include: Washington University, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP.
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