Offered wages

Howard Hughes Medical Institute — H-1B salaries

Every offered wage disclosed on Howard Hughes Medical 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: $81,184
25th percentile: $71,518
75th percentile: $88,750
Occupations: 7

All disclosed wages

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

25th $71,518 · median $81,184 · 75th $88,750 · 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
19-1029.00 · Biological Scientists, All Other	50	$63,125	$77,143	$88,214	I 2 · II 25 · III 6 · IV 1
19-1021.00 · Biochemists and Biophysicists	35	$73,646	$81,042	$84,688	I 1 · II 23 · III 3
15-1252.00 · Software Developers	6	$106,500	$108,000	$109,500	II 2
19-1029.01 · Bioinformatics Scientists	2	$82,500	$85,000	$2,082,500	II 2
19-1013.00 · Soil and Plant Scientists	2	$82,500	$85,000	$87,500	II 2
19-2012.00 · Physicists	1	$101,250	$102,500	$103,750	II 1
19-1029.02 · Molecular and Cellular Biologists	1	$81,250	$82,500	$83,750	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.

19-1029.00 · Biological Scientists, All Other50 disclosed positions · 16 metros

25th $63,125 · median $77,143 · 75th $88,214 · 50 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.

19-1021.00 · Biochemists and Biophysicists35 disclosed positions · 16 metros

25th $73,646 · median $81,042 · 75th $84,688 · 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.

15-1252.00 · Software Developers6 disclosed positions · 1 metro

25th $106,500 · median $108,000 · 75th $109,500 · 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 area	Disclosed positions	25th	Median	75th	Occupations
Ashburn, VA	47	$62,938	$71,750	$91,250	5
Seattle, WA	6	$82,500	$86,667	$89,167	3
Dallas, TX	5	$73,125	$76,250	$79,375	2
New York, NY	5	$83,125	$86,250	$89,375	2
Boston, MA	4	$76,667	$78,333	$80,000	2
Cambridge, MA	4	$80,000	$85,000	$90,000	2
Berkeley, CA	3	$78,750	$82,500	$86,250	2
Stanford, CA	3	$83,750	$86,250	$88,125	2
Baltimore, MD	2	$81,250	$82,500	$83,750	1
Durham, NC	2	$72,500	$75,000	$77,500	1
New Haven, CT	2	$87,500	$90,000	$92,500	2
Princeton, NJ	2	$82,500	$85,000	$87,500	2
Chapel Hill, NC	1	$81,250	$82,500	$83,750	1
Charlottesville, VA	1	$76,250	$77,500	$78,750	1
Chicago, IL	1	$81,250	$82,500	$83,750	1
Cold Spring Harbor, NY	1	$91,250	$92,500	$93,750	1
Davis, CA	1	$86,250	$87,500	$88,750	1
La Jolla, CA	1	$116,250	$117,500	$118,750	1
Lo Jolla, CA	1	$4,216,250	$4,217,500	$4,218,750	1
Miami, FL	1	$91,250	$92,500	$93,750	1
Pasadena, CA	1	$71,250	$72,500	$73,750	1
Philadelphia, PA	1	$81,250	$82,500	$83,750	1
San Francisco, CA	1	$121,250	$122,500	$123,750	1
Worcester, MA	1	$81,250	$82,500	$83,750	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	3	4.3%
Level II	56	81.2%
Level III	9	13.0%
Level IV	1	1.4%

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.