Offered wages

The Leland Stanford, Jr University — H-1B salaries

Every offered wage disclosed on The Leland Stanford, Jr University's certified labor condition applications — 153 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: $90,625
25th percentile: $79,743
75th percentile: $128,125
Occupations: 45

All disclosed wages

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

25th $79,743 · median $90,625 · 75th $128,125 · 153 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
19-1029.02 · Molecular and Cellular Biologists	29	$77,788	$80,938	$85,938	I 24 · II 5
19-1021.00 · Biochemists and Biophysicists	23	$76,705	$79,318	$90,625	I 17 · II 4 · III 2
15-1252.00 · Software Developers	10	$137,500	$155,000	$167,500	II 6 · III 2 · IV 2
19-1042.00 · Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists	8	$86,667	$90,000	$105,000	I 6 · II 2
17-2031.00 · Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers	6	$117,500	$125,000	$128,750	I 1 · II 1 · III 1 · IV 3
15-1221.00 · Computer and Information Research Scientists	5	$101,250	$126,250	$129,375	I 1 · II 4
19-1029.01 · Bioinformatics Scientists	5	$80,625	$83,750	$103,750	I 3 · II 1 · III 1
15-2051.00 · Data Scientists	4	$85,000	$105,000	$110,000	I 1 · II 3
19-3094.00 · Political Scientists	4	$70,000	$105,000	$185,000	I 1 · II 2 · III 1
19-2032.00 · Materials Scientists	4	$80,000	$97,500	$100,000	I 1 · II 2 · III 1
19-2012.00 · Physicists	4	$80,000	$85,000	$100,000	I 3 · II 1
29-1249.00 · Surgeons, All Other	3	$108,750	$431,250	$433,125	I 1 · IV 2
19-1029.04 · Biologists	3	$73,750	$86,250	$88,125	I 1 · II 2
19-1029.00 · Biological Scientists, All Other	3	$73,750	$82,500	$101,250	I 2 · III 1
19-1029.03 · Geneticists	3	$76,875	$78,750	$86,250	I 2 · II 1
29-1211.00 · Anesthesiologists	2	$172,500	$175,000	$497,500	I 2
25-9031.00 · Instructional Coordinators	2	$137,500	$140,000	$182,500	II 2
25-1071.00 · Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary	2	$107,500	$110,000	$242,500	II 1 · III 1
17-2199.03 · Energy Engineers, Except Wind and Solar	2	$107,500	$110,000	$127,500	II 2
19-3011.00 · Economists	2	$102,500	$105,000	$137,500	I 1 · II 1
19-2042.00 · Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers	2	$82,500	$85,000	$122,500	I 1 · II 1
19-1022.00 · Microbiologists	2	$81,250	$82,500	$83,750	I 2
15-2041.01 · Biostatisticians	2	$77,500	$80,000	$87,500	I 2
17-2041.00 · Chemical Engineers	2	$77,500	$80,000	$112,500	II 2
25-1063.00 · Economics Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$541,250	$542,500	$543,750	III 1
29-1217.00 · Neurologists	1	$256,250	$257,500	$258,750	II 1
29-1221.00 · Pediatricians, General	1	$211,250	$212,500	$213,750	III 1
11-2021.00 · Marketing Managers	1	$181,250	$182,500	$183,750	III 1
19-3033.00 · Clinical and Counseling Psychologists	1	$181,250	$182,500	$183,750	II 1
17-2071.00 · Electrical Engineers	1	$171,250	$172,500	$173,750	IV 1
15-1212.00 · Information Security Analysts	1	$161,250	$162,500	$163,750	III 1
15-2051.01 · Business Intelligence Analysts	1	$151,250	$152,500	$153,750	IV 1
25-1061.00 · Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$146,250	$147,500	$148,750	I 1
17-2081.00 · Environmental Engineers	1	$146,250	$147,500	$148,750	III 1
11-9033.00 · Education Administrators, Postsecondary	1	$141,250	$142,500	$143,750	II 1
15-1296.00 · Software Developers, R&D	1	$131,250	$132,500	$133,750	III 1
17-2053.00 · Civil Engineers, R&D	1	$126,250	$127,500	$128,750	III 1
25-1042.00 · Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$111,250	$112,500	$113,750	II 1
19-3034.00 · School Psychologists	1	$96,250	$97,500	$98,750	I 1
17-2074.00 · Electrical Engineers, R&D	1	$86,250	$87,500	$88,750	II 1
19-2041.00 · Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health	1	$81,250	$82,500	$83,750	II 1
17-2144.00 · Mechanical Engineers, R&D	1	$81,250	$82,500	$83,750	I 1
17-2076.00 · Electronics Engineers, Except Computer, R&D	1	$76,250	$77,500	$78,750	I 1
19-2099.00 · Physical Scientists, All Other	1	$76,250	$77,500	$78,750	I 1
19-4021.00 · Biological Technicians	1	$66,250	$67,500	$68,750	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.

19-1029.02 · Molecular and Cellular Biologists29 disclosed positions · 3 metros

25th $77,788 · median $80,938 · 75th $85,938 · 29 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 Biophysicists23 disclosed positions · 2 metros

25th $76,705 · median $79,318 · 75th $90,625 · 23 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 Developers10 disclosed positions · 3 metros

25th $137,500 · median $155,000 · 75th $167,500 · 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.

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
Stanford, CA	118	$79,712	$89,167	$118,125	41
Palo Alto, CA	20	$78,125	$85,000	$127,500	11
Redwood City, CA	8	$152,500	$162,500	$170,000	2
Pacific Grove, CA	2	$86,250	$87,500	$88,750	1
Cupertino, CA	1	$161,250	$162,500	$163,750	1
Durham, NC	1	$81,250	$82,500	$83,750	1
Lynnfield, MA	1	$136,250	$137,500	$138,750	1
Palo Altro, CA	1	$81,250	$82,500	$83,750	1
Troy, NY	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	78	51.0%
Level II	49	32.0%
Level III	17	11.1%
Level IV	9	5.9%

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