Offered wages

Iowa State University of Science and Technology — H-1B salaries

Every offered wage disclosed on Iowa State University of Science and Technology's certified labor condition applications — 67 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: $73,750
25th percentile: $62,250
75th percentile: $102,031
Occupations: 33

All disclosed wages

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

25th $62,250 · median $73,750 · 75th $102,031 · 67 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
19-2032.00 · Materials Scientists	8	$63,333	$81,000	$83,000	I 3 · II 5
25-1032.00 · Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary	7	$98,750	$102,500	$105,625	I 7
19-1013.00 · Soil and Plant Scientists	6	$60,833	$63,333	$67,500	I 5 · II 1
25-1011.00 · Business Teachers, Postsecondary	5	$63,125	$182,500	$198,750	I 5
29-1131.00 · Veterinarians	4	$135,000	$140,000	$152,500	II 4
15-1295.00 · Software Developers, Non R&D	3	$101,250	$102,500	$103,750	IV 3
19-1021.00 · Biochemists and Biophysicists	3	$56,875	$58,750	$91,250	I 2 · II 1
25-1021.00 · Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary	2	$87,500	$90,000	$187,500	I 1 · II 1
19-2031.00 · Chemists	2	$62,500	$65,000	$67,500	I 2
17-2131.00 · Materials Engineers	2	$57,500	$60,000	$67,500	I 2
25-1121.00 · Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary	2	$46,250	$47,500	$48,750	I 2
21-1012.00 · Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors	2	$42,500	$45,000	$47,500	I 2
29-1229.00 · Physicians, All Other	1	$141,250	$142,500	$143,750	II 1
15-2051.00 · Data Scientists	1	$111,250	$112,500	$113,750	IV 1
15-1252.00 · Software Developers	1	$101,250	$102,500	$103,750	IV 1
25-1071.00 · Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$101,250	$102,500	$103,750	I 1
17-2144.00 · Mechanical Engineers, R&D	1	$86,250	$87,500	$88,750	I 1
15-1218.00 · Computer Systems Analysts, R&D	1	$86,250	$87,500	$88,750	III 1
17-2021.00 · Agricultural Engineers	1	$86,250	$87,500	$88,750	I 1
13-2031.00 · Budget Analysts	1	$81,250	$82,500	$83,750	IV 1
25-1124.00 · Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$71,250	$72,500	$73,750	I 1
17-2053.00 · Civil Engineers, R&D	1	$66,250	$67,500	$68,750	I 1
19-2012.00 · Physicists	1	$66,250	$67,500	$68,750	I 1
17-2051.00 · Civil Engineers	1	$66,250	$67,500	$68,750	I 1
17-2141.00 · Mechanical Engineers	1	$66,250	$67,500	$68,750	I 1
29-2056.00 · Veterinary Technologists and Technicians	1	$61,250	$62,500	$63,750	IV 1
15-2021.00 · Mathematicians	1	$61,250	$62,500	$63,750	I 1
19-1042.00 · Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists	1	$61,250	$62,500	$63,750	I 1
19-1029.03 · Geneticists	1	$61,250	$62,500	$63,750	I 1
19-1012.00 · Food Scientists and Technologists	1	$61,250	$62,500	$63,750	I 1
19-1029.02 · Molecular and Cellular Biologists	1	$61,250	$62,500	$63,750	I 1
25-1022.00 · Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$56,250	$57,500	$58,750	I 1
19-1011.00 · Animal Scientists	1	$51,250	$52,500	$53,750	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.

19-2032.00 · Materials Scientists8 disclosed positions · 1 metro

25th $63,333 · median $81,000 · 75th $83,000 · 8 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, Postsecondary7 disclosed positions · 1 metro

25th $98,750 · median $102,500 · 75th $105,625 · 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.

19-1013.00 · Soil and Plant Scientists6 disclosed positions · 1 metro

25th $60,833 · median $63,333 · 75th $67,500 · 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
Ames, IA	66	$62,167	$72,500	$102,188	32
Wilmington, DE	1	$86,250	$87,500	$88,750	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	46	68.7%
Level II	13	19.4%
Level III	1	1.5%
Level IV	7	10.4%

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