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Offered wages

National Institutes of Health, HHS — H-1B salaries

Every offered wage disclosed on National Institutes of Health, HHS's certified labor condition applications — 101 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
$107,083

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

101 disclosed positions

25th percentile
$96,406

A quarter of disclosed positions were offered less than this.

75th percentile
$123,375

A quarter of disclosed positions were offered more than this.

Occupations
8

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.

National Institutes of Health, HHS — offered wage distributionNational Institutes of Health, HHS: wage distribution across 101 disclosed positions, from $75k to $225k, median $107,083.median $107k$75k$225k

25th $96,406 · median $107,083 · 75th $123,375 · 101 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
19-1042.00 · Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists42$100,833$108,750$122,500I 9 · II 12 · Not stated 21
19-1021.00 · Biochemists and Biophysicists18$91,786$95,000$121,250I 7 · II 6 · Not stated 5
19-1029.01 · Bioinformatics Scientists15$101,750$107,500$123,125I 2 · III 2 · IV 5 · Not stated 6
19-1029.02 · Molecular and Cellular Biologists14$101,250$113,333$132,500I 4 · III 2 · IV 3 · Not stated 5
19-1029.03 · Geneticists7$94,375$107,500$126,250I 2 · III 1 · IV 1 · Not stated 3
17-2031.00 · Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers3$83,750$97,500$101,250Not stated 3
19-1022.00 · Microbiologists1$216,250$217,500$218,750IV 1
19-1041.00 · Epidemiologists1$111,250$112,500$113,750Not stated 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.

19-1042.00 · Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists42 disclosed positions · 4 metros

National Institutes of Health, HHS — 19-1042.00 · Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists — offered wage distributionNational Institutes of Health, HHS — 19-1042.00 · Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists: wage distribution across 42 disclosed positions, from $75k to $200k, median $108,750.median $109k$75k$200k

25th $100,833 · median $108,750 · 75th $122,500 · 42 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 Biophysicists18 disclosed positions · 5 metros

National Institutes of Health, HHS — 19-1021.00 · Biochemists and Biophysicists — offered wage distributionNational Institutes of Health, HHS — 19-1021.00 · Biochemists and Biophysicists: wage distribution across 18 disclosed positions, from $85k to $170k, median $95,000.median $95k$85k$170k

25th $91,786 · median $95,000 · 75th $121,250 · 18 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.

19-1029.01 · Bioinformatics Scientists15 disclosed positions · 2 metros

National Institutes of Health, HHS — 19-1029.01 · Bioinformatics Scientists — offered wage distributionNational Institutes of Health, HHS — 19-1029.01 · Bioinformatics Scientists: wage distribution across 15 disclosed positions, from $85k to $160k, median $107,500.median $108k$85k$160k

25th $101,750 · median $107,500 · 75th $123,125 · 15 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
Bethesda, MD81$100,078$109,500$124,3067
Frederick, MD6$92,500$95,000$157,5004
Rockville, MD6$97,500$100,000$107,5004
Research Triangle Park, NC5$90,313$91,875$93,4383
Baltimore, MD2$117,500$120,000$122,5002
Hamilton, MT1$171,250$172,500$173,7501

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 I2423.8%
Level II1817.8%
Level III55.0%
Level IV109.9%
Not stated4443.6%

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