Offered wages

Battelle Memorial Institute — H-1B salaries

Every offered wage disclosed on Battelle Memorial Institute's certified labor condition applications — 97 positions — grouped into $5,000 bands and cut by occupation and by metro. Percentiles are computed from those bands at read time.

Full filing record

Median offered wage: $113,553
25th percentile: $100,208
75th percentile: $124,375
Occupations: 25

All disclosed wages

The whole distribution, every occupation together. The dashed line is the median, derived from these bands.

25th $100,208 · median $113,553 · 75th $124,375 · 97 disclosed positions

Offered wages from certified Labor Condition Applications, grouped into $5,000 bands. Percentiles are computed from the bands, not from a stored average.

By occupation

Each SOC code the employer filed under, with its own percentiles derived from its own bands.

Percentiles are computed per occupation from that occupation's bands. They do not average to the figure above, and they are not supposed to — the all-occupations figure is the summed distribution, not the mean of these rows.
Occupation (SOC)	Disclosed positions	25th	Median	75th	Prevailing wage level
19-2021.00 · Atmospheric and Space Scientists	11	$110,938	$114,375	$123,125	I 2 · II 7 · III 2
19-2031.00 · Chemists	9	$91,250	$113,750	$143,750	I 3 · II 3 · III 3
17-2071.00 · Electrical Engineers	9	$110,313	$113,125	$116,875	I 2 · II 6 · III 1
15-2051.00 · Data Scientists	8	$110,000	$125,000	$167,500	I 2 · II 3 · III 1 · IV 2
17-2081.00 · Environmental Engineers	6	$103,750	$125,000	$141,250	I 1 · II 4 · III 1
19-2032.00 · Materials Scientists	6	$107,500	$121,667	$124,167	I 2 · II 3 · III 1
17-2141.00 · Mechanical Engineers	6	$101,250	$105,000	$117,500	I 2 · II 3 · III 1
17-2041.00 · Chemical Engineers	6	$68,750	$97,500	$102,500	I 4 · II 2
19-2042.00 · Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers	4	$112,500	$115,000	$127,500	II 2 · III 2
19-2041.00 · Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health	4	$95,000	$112,500	$115,000	I 1 · II 3
15-1221.00 · Computer and Information Research Scientists	4	$100,000	$110,000	$115,000	I 2 · II 2
19-1021.00 · Biochemists and Biophysicists	4	$85,000	$90,000	$95,000	I 4
17-2144.00 · Mechanical Engineers, R&D	3	$103,750	$112,500	$121,250	II 2 · III 1
17-2021.00 · Agricultural Engineers	2	$136,250	$137,500	$138,750	II 2
15-1252.00 · Software Developers	2	$117,500	$120,000	$137,500	II 1 · III 1
17-2074.00 · Electrical Engineers, R&D	2	$112,500	$115,000	$132,500	II 1 · III 1
19-2012.00 · Physicists	2	$97,500	$100,000	$152,500	I 1 · II 1
19-1029.02 · Molecular and Cellular Biologists	2	$77,500	$80,000	$87,500	I 2
17-2199.07 · Photonics Engineers	1	$121,250	$122,500	$123,750	II 1
17-2051.00 · Civil Engineers	1	$116,250	$117,500	$118,750	II 1
19-3092.00 · Geographers	1	$111,250	$112,500	$113,750	II 1
19-1029.04 · Biologists	1	$111,250	$112,500	$113,750	II 1
17-2031.00 · Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers	1	$91,250	$92,500	$93,750	I 1
19-2043.00 · Hydrologists	1	$91,250	$92,500	$93,750	I 1
19-1029.01 · Bioinformatics Scientists	1	$76,250	$77,500	$78,750	I 1

Rows with fewer than 5 disclosed positions are shown because they are real filings, but a percentile over that few offers is an anecdote rather than a range. The disclosed-position column is there so you can tell which is which.

Largest occupations in detail

The same bands, drawn. Shape matters: two occupations with the same median can pay very differently at the edges.

19-2021.00 · Atmospheric and Space Scientists11 disclosed positions · 2 metros

25th $110,938 · median $114,375 · 75th $123,125 · 11 disclosed positions

Offered wages from certified Labor Condition Applications, grouped into $5,000 bands. Percentiles are computed from the bands, not from a stored average.

19-2031.00 · Chemists9 disclosed positions · 2 metros

25th $91,250 · median $113,750 · 75th $143,750 · 9 disclosed positions

Offered wages from certified Labor Condition Applications, grouped into $5,000 bands. Percentiles are computed from the bands, not from a stored average.

17-2071.00 · Electrical Engineers9 disclosed positions · 4 metros

25th $110,313 · median $113,125 · 75th $116,875 · 9 disclosed positions

Offered wages from certified Labor Condition Applications, grouped into $5,000 bands. Percentiles are computed from the bands, not from a stored average.

By metro area

The same wages cut by where the work is, from the metro half of each stored band key.

Only bands recorded against a named city and state appear here, so these rows can sum to less than the total above.
Metro area	Disclosed positions	25th	Median	75th	Occupations
Richland, WA	74	$98,125	$113,636	$123,750	24
Seattle, WA	7	$103,750	$113,750	$128,125	4
Fort Myers, FL	2	$111,250	$112,500	$113,750	1
Menlo Park, CA	2	$141,250	$142,500	$143,750	1
West Richland, WA	2	$111,250	$112,500	$113,750	1
Bayonne, NJ	1	$116,250	$117,500	$118,750	1
Castro Valley, CA	1	$96,250	$97,500	$98,750	1
Columbus, OH	1	$111,250	$112,500	$113,750	1
Grand Forks, ND	1	$106,250	$107,500	$108,750	1
Greensboro, NC	1	$111,250	$112,500	$113,750	1
Houston, TX	1	$126,250	$127,500	$128,750	1
Providence, RI	1	$131,250	$132,500	$133,750	1
Road Rock, TX	1	$91,250	$92,500	$93,750	1
Rochester Hills, MI	1	$116,250	$117,500	$118,750	1
Round Rock, TX	1	$91,250	$92,500	$93,750	1

Prevailing wage levels

Level I is entry, level IV is fully competent and independent. The level sets the legal floor the offered wage has to clear.

A level-heavy split toward I and II means the roles were filed as junior, whatever the job title says.
Level	Positions	Share
Level I	31	32.0%
Level II	49	50.5%
Level III	15	15.5%
Level IV	2	2.1%

Wages here are the OFFERED WAGE on the labor condition application — a commitment the employer made to the Department of Labor, not anyone’s actual compensation, and it excludes bonus and equity. Every percentile on this page is computed at render time from stored $5,000 band counts (97 positions); no median is stored anywhere in the dataset. How the derivation works.