Offered wages

Duke University — H-1B salaries

Every offered wage disclosed on Duke University's certified labor condition applications — 110 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: $77,400
25th percentile: $68,971
75th percentile: $108,750
Occupations: 31

All disclosed wages

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

25th $68,971 · median $77,400 · 75th $108,750 · 110 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
19-1021.00 · Biochemists and Biophysicists	45	$69,531	$75,795	$78,352	I 18 · II 27
15-2041.01 · Biostatisticians	7	$93,750	$122,500	$127,083	I 3 · II 4
19-1042.00 · Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists	7	$66,250	$69,167	$72,083	I 4 · II 3
25-1011.00 · Business Teachers, Postsecondary	5	$231,250	$282,500	$286,875	I 5
25-1124.00 · Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary	5	$60,625	$63,750	$68,750	I 1 · Not stated 4
19-2012.00 · Physicists	4	$70,000	$87,500	$90,000	I 3 · Not stated 1
17-2031.00 · Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers	4	$70,000	$75,000	$95,000	I 3 · II 1
19-1041.00 · Epidemiologists	3	$66,875	$68,750	$91,250	I 2 · III 1
19-4021.00 · Biological Technicians	3	$61,875	$63,750	$76,250	I 1 · II 2
25-1063.00 · Economics Teachers, Postsecondary	2	$221,250	$222,500	$223,750	I 2
25-1071.00 · Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary	2	$177,500	$180,000	$342,500	I 1 · II 1
25-1032.00 · Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary	2	$132,500	$135,000	$142,500	I 2
15-2051.00 · Data Scientists	2	$106,250	$107,500	$108,750	I 2
25-1042.00 · Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary	2	$77,500	$80,000	$5,722,500	I 2
25-1112.00 · Law Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$241,250	$242,500	$243,750	II 1
25-1021.00 · Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$156,250	$157,500	$158,750	II 1
25-1053.00 · Environmental Science Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$131,250	$132,500	$133,750	I 1
13-1111.00 · Management Analysts	1	$121,250	$122,500	$123,750	II 1
25-1067.00 · Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$116,250	$117,500	$118,750	I 1
15-1217.00 · Computer Systems Analysts, Non R&D	1	$116,250	$117,500	$118,750	III 1
21-2021.00 · Directors, Religious Activities and Education	1	$116,250	$117,500	$118,750	IV 1
15-1218.00 · Computer Systems Analysts, R&D	1	$101,250	$102,500	$103,750	II 1
19-3099.00 · Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other	1	$96,250	$97,500	$98,750	II 1
15-2041.00 · Statisticians	1	$86,250	$87,500	$88,750	III 1
19-2031.00 · Chemists	1	$81,250	$82,500	$83,750	III 1
11-9121.00 · Natural Sciences Managers	1	$76,250	$77,500	$78,750	II 1
19-2041.00 · Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health	1	$71,250	$72,500	$73,750	II 1
15-1296.00 · Software Developers, R&D	1	$66,250	$67,500	$68,750	I 1
19-4061.00 · Social Science Research Assistants	1	$56,250	$57,500	$58,750	II 1
29-2011.00 · Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists	1	$51,250	$52,500	$53,750	I 1
29-2012.00 · Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technicians	1	$51,250	$52,500	$53,750	II 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.

19-1021.00 · Biochemists and Biophysicists45 disclosed positions · 1 metro

25th $69,531 · median $75,795 · 75th $78,352 · 45 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.

15-2041.01 · Biostatisticians7 disclosed positions · 1 metro

25th $93,750 · median $122,500 · 75th $127,083 · 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.

19-1042.00 · Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists7 disclosed positions · 1 metro

25th $66,250 · median $69,167 · 75th $72,083 · 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.

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
Durham, NC	107	$69,297	$77,700	$110,625	30
Beaufort, NC	1	$56,250	$57,500	$58,750	1
Durha, NC	1	$66,250	$67,500	$68,750	1
Los Angeles, CA	1	$71,250	$72,500	$73,750	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	53	48.2%
Level II	47	42.7%
Level III	4	3.6%
Level IV	1	0.9%
Not stated	5	4.5%

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