Offered wages

Brookhaven National Laboratory — H-1B salaries

Every offered wage disclosed on Brookhaven National Laboratory's certified labor condition applications — 303 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: $117,833
25th percentile: $86,563
75th percentile: $135,347
Occupations: 25

All disclosed wages

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

25th $86,563 · median $117,833 · 75th $135,347 · 303 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
19-2012.00 · Physicists	124	$85,455	$122,692	$134,500	I 44 · II 21 · III 50 · IV 9
15-1221.00 · Computer and Information Research Scientists	35	$112,917	$124,167	$136,042	I 8 · II 15 · III 12
19-2032.00 · Materials Scientists	30	$83,500	$110,000	$122,500	I 3 · II 17 · III 10
17-2074.00 · Electrical Engineers, R&D	18	$105,500	$110,000	$121,875	II 3 · III 14 · IV 1
19-2031.00 · Chemists	16	$82,500	$85,000	$88,333	II 16
17-2144.00 · Mechanical Engineers, R&D	14	$135,833	$142,500	$165,833	II 1 · III 7 · IV 6
17-2076.00 · Electronics Engineers, Except Computer, R&D	13	$100,417	$106,250	$118,750	I 2 · II 8 · III 2 · IV 1
19-2021.00 · Atmospheric and Space Scientists	8	$95,000	$112,500	$140,000	II 2 · III 5 · IV 1
15-1296.00 · Software Developers, R&D	6	$102,500	$136,667	$139,167	I 1 · II 1 · III 4
19-1029.04 · Biologists	6	$77,500	$82,500	$87,500	I 4 · II 1 · III 1
17-2199.08 · Robotics Engineers	5	$86,250	$92,500	$96,875	I 2 · II 3
17-2111.00 · Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors	4	$147,500	$150,000	$160,000	III 2 · IV 2
17-2131.00 · Materials Engineers	4	$80,000	$120,000	$125,000	II 2 · III 2
19-1021.00 · Biochemists and Biophysicists	4	$72,500	$75,000	$77,500	II 4
19-1029.00 · Biological Scientists, All Other	3	$88,750	$146,250	$148,125	II 1 · III 2
13-1082.00 · Project Management Specialists	2	$146,250	$147,500	$148,750	III 2
19-1029.02 · Molecular and Cellular Biologists	2	$81,250	$82,500	$83,750	I 1 · II 1
19-1013.00 · Soil and Plant Scientists	2	$76,250	$77,500	$78,750	II 2
11-1021.00 · General and Operations Managers	1	$246,250	$247,500	$248,750	IV 1
11-9041.00 · Architectural and Engineering Managers	1	$231,250	$232,500	$233,750	IV 1
15-2051.00 · Data Scientists	1	$151,250	$152,500	$153,750	III 1
17-2112.03 · Manufacturing Engineers	1	$131,250	$132,500	$133,750	III 1
15-1299.00 · Computer Occupations, All Other	1	$121,250	$122,500	$123,750	III 1
15-2041.00 · Statisticians	1	$116,250	$117,500	$118,750	II 1
17-2199.05 · Mechatronics Engineers	1	$81,250	$82,500	$83,750	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.

19-2012.00 · Physicists124 disclosed positions · 1 metro

25th $85,455 · median $122,692 · 75th $134,500 · 124 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.

15-1221.00 · Computer and Information Research Scientists35 disclosed positions · 2 metros

25th $112,917 · median $124,167 · 75th $136,042 · 35 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.

19-2032.00 · Materials Scientists30 disclosed positions · 1 metro

25th $83,500 · median $110,000 · 75th $122,500 · 30 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
Upton, NY	302	$86,518	$117,667	$135,147	25
Rochester, MN	1	$136,250	$137,500	$138,750	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	66	21.8%
Level II	99	32.7%
Level III	116	38.3%
Level IV	22	7.3%

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 (303 positions); no median is stored anywhere in the dataset. How the derivation works.