Offered wages

The University of Southern California — H-1B salaries

Every offered wage disclosed on The University of Southern California's certified labor condition applications — 86 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: $78,333
25th percentile: $65,278
75th percentile: $116,250
Occupations: 43

All disclosed wages

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

25th $65,278 · median $78,333 · 75th $116,250 · 86 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
19-1021.00 · Biochemists and Biophysicists	8	$52,000	$54,000	$65,000	I 7 · II 1
15-2041.01 · Biostatisticians	5	$70,625	$73,750	$88,750	I 5
25-1071.00 · Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary	4	$65,000	$240,000	$247,500	I 2 · II 2
25-1124.00 · Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary	4	$61,667	$63,333	$65,000	I 4
25-1021.00 · Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary	3	$128,750	$141,250	$143,125	I 3
19-3011.00 · Economists	3	$118,750	$122,500	$126,250	III 3
19-1042.00 · Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists	3	$88,750	$91,250	$93,125	I 3
15-2051.01 · Business Intelligence Analysts	3	$68,750	$82,500	$111,250	I 1 · II 1 · IV 1
25-1054.00 · Physics Teachers, Postsecondary	3	$76,875	$78,750	$116,250	I 3
19-1029.02 · Molecular and Cellular Biologists	3	$71,250	$72,500	$73,750	I 2 · III 1
25-1011.00 · Business Teachers, Postsecondary	3	$66,875	$68,750	$266,250	I 3
15-2051.00 · Data Scientists	3	$63,750	$66,250	$68,125	I 3
11-3021.00 · Computer and Information Systems Managers	2	$171,250	$172,500	$173,750	IV 2
15-1243.00 · Database Architects	2	$127,500	$130,000	$132,500	IV 2
15-1212.00 · Information Security Analysts	2	$92,500	$95,000	$127,500	II 1 · IV 1
11-2021.00 · Marketing Managers	2	$86,250	$87,500	$88,750	I 2
15-1299.08 · Computer Systems Engineers/Architects	2	$82,500	$85,000	$127,500	II 1 · IV 1
25-1126.00 · Philosophy and Religion Teachers, Postsecondary	2	$67,500	$70,000	$112,500	I 2
19-1041.00 · Epidemiologists	2	$62,500	$65,000	$67,500	I 2
17-2031.00 · Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers	2	$62,500	$65,000	$72,500	I 2
25-1065.00 · Political Science Teachers, Postsecondary	2	$62,500	$65,000	$67,500	I 2
21-1023.00 · Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers	2	$46,250	$47,500	$48,750	I 2
25-1063.00 · Economics Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$171,250	$172,500	$173,750	I 1
25-1064.00 · Geography Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$126,250	$127,500	$128,750	I 1
29-1141.04 · Clinical Nurse Specialists	1	$126,250	$127,500	$128,750	IV 1
25-1032.00 · Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$121,250	$122,500	$123,750	I 1
15-1295.00 · Software Developers, Non R&D	1	$121,250	$122,500	$123,750	III 1
15-2051.02 · Clinical Data Managers	1	$111,250	$112,500	$113,750	IV 1
15-1254.00 · Web Developers	1	$101,250	$102,500	$103,750	IV 1
19-2032.00 · Materials Scientists	1	$91,250	$92,500	$93,750	III 1
19-2099.01 · Remote Sensing Scientists and Technologists	1	$86,250	$87,500	$88,750	IV 1
11-9151.00 · Social and Community Service Managers	1	$81,250	$82,500	$83,750	I 1
13-2051.00 · Financial and Investment Analysts	1	$81,250	$82,500	$83,750	II 1
19-1029.01 · Bioinformatics Scientists	1	$81,250	$82,500	$83,750	II 1
17-2041.00 · Chemical Engineers	1	$76,250	$77,500	$78,750	III 1
15-2041.00 · Statisticians	1	$71,250	$72,500	$73,750	I 1
15-1252.00 · Software Developers	1	$71,250	$72,500	$73,750	I 1
25-1121.00 · Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$71,250	$72,500	$73,750	I 1
15-2031.00 · Operations Research Analysts	1	$66,250	$67,500	$68,750	I 1
15-1221.00 · Computer and Information Research Scientists	1	$61,250	$62,500	$63,750	I 1
25-1067.00 · Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$61,250	$62,500	$63,750	I 1
27-3031.00 · Public Relations Specialists	1	$56,250	$57,500	$58,750	I 1
21-1012.00 · Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors	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.

19-1021.00 · Biochemists and Biophysicists8 disclosed positions · 2 metros

25th $52,000 · median $54,000 · 75th $65,000 · 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.

15-2041.01 · Biostatisticians5 disclosed positions · 2 metros

25th $70,625 · median $73,750 · 75th $88,750 · 5 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
Los Angeles, CA	78	$64,750	$76,667	$118,750	42
San Diego, CA	4	$65,000	$87,500	$90,000	3
Irvine, CA	1	$66,250	$67,500	$68,750	1
Marina Del Rey, CA	1	$66,250	$67,500	$68,750	1
Playa Vista, CA	1	$86,250	$87,500	$88,750	1
Roseville, CA	1	$126,250	$127,500	$128,750	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	60	69.8%
Level II	8	9.3%
Level III	7	8.1%
Level IV	11	12.8%

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