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Offered wages

Cornell University — H-1B salaries

Every offered wage disclosed on Cornell University's certified labor condition applications — 89 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
$79,500

Interpolated inside a $5,000 band, so it reads as a point in a range rather than a salary anyone was paid.

89 disclosed positions

25th percentile
$69,659

A quarter of disclosed positions were offered less than this.

75th percentile
$110,750

A quarter of disclosed positions were offered more than this.

Occupations
42

Distinct SOC codes with at least one disclosed wage.

All disclosed wages

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

Cornell University — offered wage distributionCornell University: wage distribution across 89 disclosed positions, from $55k to $265k, median $79,500.median $80k$55k$265k

25th $69,659 · median $79,500 · 75th $110,750 · 89 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 positions25thMedian75thPrevailing wage level
25-1121.00 · Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary7$69,375$72,500$101,250I 6 · II 1
19-2012.00 · Physicists7$62,917$71,250$76,250I 7
25-1032.00 · Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary6$86,250$90,000$137,500I 3 · II 2 · III 1
19-1029.01 · Bioinformatics Scientists4$81,250$82,500$83,750II 4
19-1021.00 · Biochemists and Biophysicists4$70,000$71,667$73,333I 3 · II 1
19-1013.00 · Soil and Plant Scientists4$60,000$62,500$65,000II 3 · III 1
25-1011.00 · Business Teachers, Postsecondary3$208,750$256,250$258,125I 2 · II 1
25-1071.00 · Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary3$158,750$256,250$258,125II 1 · III 1 · IV 1
25-1063.00 · Economics Teachers, Postsecondary3$101,875$103,750$196,250II 3
19-1011.00 · Animal Scientists3$68,750$72,500$101,250II 1 · III 2
19-1022.00 · Microbiologists3$66,875$68,750$71,250II 3
19-1041.00 · Epidemiologists3$61,250$62,500$63,750I 3
25-1021.00 · Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary2$146,250$147,500$148,750II 2
11-9033.00 · Education Administrators, Postsecondary2$121,250$122,500$123,750I 2
19-1029.00 · Biological Scientists, All Other2$81,250$82,500$83,750I 1 · II 1
19-1029.03 · Geneticists2$72,500$75,000$82,500I 1 · II 1
25-1124.00 · Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary2$72,500$75,000$77,500I 1 · II 1
17-2031.00 · Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers2$71,250$72,500$73,750II 2
19-2031.00 · Chemists2$71,250$72,500$73,750I 1 · II 1
25-1022.00 · Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary2$67,500$70,000$122,500I 1 · II 1
19-1012.00 · Food Scientists and Technologists2$62,500$65,000$102,500II 1 · III 1
25-1112.00 · Law Teachers, Postsecondary1$191,250$192,500$193,750II 1
25-1042.00 · Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary1$141,250$142,500$143,750II 1
25-1051.00 · Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, and Space Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary1$121,250$122,500$123,750III 1
25-1125.00 · History Teachers, Postsecondary1$111,250$112,500$113,750II 1
25-1067.00 · Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary1$111,250$112,500$113,750II 1
25-1069.00 · Social Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary, All Other1$111,250$112,500$113,750II 1
25-1062.00 · Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Teachers, Postsecondary1$111,250$112,500$113,750I 1
25-1041.00 · Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary1$101,250$102,500$103,750III 1
19-2011.00 · Astronomers1$91,250$92,500$93,750II 1
15-2051.00 · Data Scientists1$86,250$87,500$88,750II 1
13-1082.00 · Project Management Specialists1$86,250$87,500$88,750III 1
19-1023.00 · Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists1$86,250$87,500$88,750IV 1
17-2074.00 · Electrical Engineers, R&D1$76,250$77,500$78,750II 1
25-9021.00 · Farm and Home Management Educators1$76,250$77,500$78,750III 1
19-1029.02 · Molecular and Cellular Biologists1$71,250$72,500$73,750I 1
19-3092.00 · Geographers1$66,250$67,500$68,750II 1
17-2131.00 · Materials Engineers1$66,250$67,500$68,750II 1
19-1031.02 · Range Managers1$66,250$67,500$68,750II 1
17-2041.00 · Chemical Engineers1$66,250$67,500$68,750II 1
15-1221.00 · Computer and Information Research Scientists1$61,250$62,500$63,750I 1
19-1042.00 · Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists1$61,250$62,500$63,750I 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.

25-1121.00 · Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary7 disclosed positions · 1 metro

Cornell University — 25-1121.00 · Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary — offered wage distributionCornell University — 25-1121.00 · Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary: wage distribution across 7 disclosed positions, from $65k to $115k, median $72,500.median $73k$65k$115k

25th $69,375 · median $72,500 · 75th $101,250 · 7 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.

19-2012.00 · Physicists7 disclosed positions · 1 metro

Cornell University — 19-2012.00 · Physicists — offered wage distributionCornell University — 19-2012.00 · Physicists: wage distribution across 7 disclosed positions, from $60k to $90k, median $71,250.median $71k$60k$90k

25th $62,917 · median $71,250 · 75th $76,250 · 7 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.

25-1032.00 · Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary6 disclosed positions · 1 metro

Cornell University — 25-1032.00 · Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary — offered wage distributionCornell University — 25-1032.00 · Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary: wage distribution across 6 disclosed positions, from $75k to $150k, median $90,000.median $90k$75k$150k

25th $86,250 · median $90,000 · 75th $137,500 · 6 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 areaDisclosed positions25thMedian75thOccupations
Ithaca, NY87$69,432$78,500$104,37542
New York, NY2$122,500$125,000$147,5002

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.
LevelPositionsShare
Level I3539.3%
Level II4247.2%
Level III1011.2%
Level IV22.2%

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