Offered wages

Purdue University — H-1B salaries

Every offered wage disclosed on Purdue University's certified labor condition applications — 156 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: $85,000
25th percentile: $65,417
75th percentile: $110,625
Occupations: 55

All disclosed wages

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

25th $65,417 · median $85,000 · 75th $110,625 · 156 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
25-1032.00 · Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary	18	$83,125	$100,000	$117,500	I 17 · II 1
25-1011.00 · Business Teachers, Postsecondary	10	$142,500	$187,500	$198,750	I 9 · II 1
25-1021.00 · Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary	9	$121,250	$131,500	$133,750	I 7 · II 2
19-1021.00 · Biochemists and Biophysicists	8	$62,500	$67,500	$72,500	I 2 · II 4 · III 2
19-1013.00 · Soil and Plant Scientists	8	$55,000	$58,333	$65,000	I 4 · II 4
19-2012.00 · Physicists	7	$68,750	$81,250	$90,625	I 2 · II 3 · III 1 · IV 1
19-2031.00 · Chemists	7	$63,750	$71,250	$76,250	I 2 · II 3 · III 1 · IV 1
21-1014.00 · Mental Health Counselors	6	$66,250	$70,000	$77,500	I 1 · II 2 · III 3
25-9031.00 · Instructional Coordinators	5	$61,250	$72,500	$101,875	I 1 · II 2 · III 2
17-2131.00 · Materials Engineers	5	$55,625	$58,750	$63,750	I 4 · IV 1
25-1071.00 · Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary	4	$100,000	$120,000	$135,000	I 1 · II 3
25-1063.00 · Economics Teachers, Postsecondary	4	$112,500	$115,000	$117,500	I 3 · II 1
25-1065.00 · Political Science Teachers, Postsecondary	4	$97,500	$100,000	$105,000	I 4
25-1054.00 · Physics Teachers, Postsecondary	3	$88,750	$107,500	$111,250	I 2 · II 1
25-1041.00 · Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary	3	$98,750	$102,500	$116,250	I 3
15-2051.00 · Data Scientists	3	$76,875	$78,750	$91,250	II 3
25-1124.00 · Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary	3	$76,875	$78,750	$86,250	II 3
17-2141.00 · Mechanical Engineers	3	$63,750	$67,500	$81,250	I 2 · II 1
19-1029.02 · Molecular and Cellular Biologists	3	$61,250	$62,500	$63,750	I 2 · III 1
15-1221.00 · Computer and Information Research Scientists	3	$48,750	$52,500	$66,250	I 3
15-2021.00 · Mathematicians	3	$46,250	$47,500	$48,750	I 3
19-2032.00 · Materials Scientists	2	$97,500	$100,000	$107,500	IV 2
25-1022.00 · Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary	2	$96,250	$97,500	$98,750	I 2
25-1053.00 · Environmental Science Teachers, Postsecondary	2	$82,500	$85,000	$97,500	I 2
17-2051.01 · Transportation Engineers	1	$141,250	$142,500	$143,750	IV 1
29-1131.00 · Veterinarians	1	$126,250	$127,500	$128,750	II 1
11-9121.00 · Natural Sciences Managers	1	$116,250	$117,500	$118,750	IV 1
15-1295.00 · Software Developers, Non R&D	1	$116,250	$117,500	$118,750	IV 1
15-1296.00 · Software Developers, R&D	1	$111,250	$112,500	$113,750	IV 1
19-2042.00 · Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers	1	$111,250	$112,500	$113,750	IV 1
25-1199.00 · Postsecondary Teachers, All Other	1	$101,250	$102,500	$103,750	I 1
19-1022.00 · Microbiologists	1	$96,250	$97,500	$98,750	IV 1
25-1067.00 · Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$96,250	$97,500	$98,750	I 1
17-2051.00 · Civil Engineers	1	$96,250	$97,500	$98,750	III 1
17-2041.00 · Chemical Engineers	1	$96,250	$97,500	$98,750	IV 1
25-1192.00 · Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$91,250	$92,500	$93,750	I 1
15-1299.07 · Blockchain Engineers	1	$91,250	$92,500	$93,750	IV 1
25-1082.00 · Library Science Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$91,250	$92,500	$93,750	III 1
15-1299.09 · Information Technology Project Managers	1	$86,250	$87,500	$88,750	IV 1
25-1051.00 · Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, and Space Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$81,250	$82,500	$83,750	II 1
13-1082.00 · Project Management Specialists	1	$76,250	$77,500	$78,750	I 1
15-1293.00 · Computer Programmers, Non R&D	1	$71,250	$72,500	$73,750	II 1
25-1126.00 · Philosophy and Religion Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$66,250	$67,500	$68,750	I 1
25-1122.00 · Communications Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$66,250	$67,500	$68,750	I 1
17-2199.09 · Nanosystems Engineers	1	$66,250	$67,500	$68,750	I 1
19-1029.01 · Bioinformatics Scientists	1	$61,250	$62,500	$63,750	I 1
17-2144.00 · Mechanical Engineers, R&D	1	$61,250	$62,500	$63,750	I 1
17-2199.00 · Engineers, All Other	1	$61,250	$62,500	$63,750	II 1
19-4061.00 · Social Science Research Assistants	1	$61,250	$62,500	$63,750	III 1
19-3011.00 · Economists	1	$61,250	$62,500	$63,750	I 1
17-2071.00 · Electrical Engineers	1	$56,250	$57,500	$58,750	I 1
17-2074.00 · Electrical Engineers, R&D	1	$56,250	$57,500	$58,750	I 1
15-2041.00 · Statisticians	1	$56,250	$57,500	$58,750	I 1
17-2031.00 · Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers	1	$56,250	$57,500	$58,750	I 1
27-2022.00 · Coaches and Scouts	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.

25-1032.00 · Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary18 disclosed positions · 2 metros

25th $83,125 · median $100,000 · 75th $117,500 · 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.

25-1011.00 · Business Teachers, Postsecondary10 disclosed positions · 2 metros

25th $142,500 · median $187,500 · 75th $198,750 · 10 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.

25-1021.00 · Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary9 disclosed positions · 2 metros

25th $121,250 · median $131,500 · 75th $133,750 · 9 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
West Lafayette, IN	147	$64,609	$86,875	$111,406	53
Fort Wayne, IN	5	$75,625	$78,750	$81,875	2
Hammond, IN	3	$93,750	$102,500	$126,250	3
Batavia, IL	1	$66,250	$67,500	$68,750	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	91	58.3%
Level II	38	24.4%
Level III	13	8.3%
Level IV	14	9.0%

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