Offered wages

University of California, Berkeley — H-1B salaries

Every offered wage disclosed on University of California, Berkeley's certified labor condition applications — 102 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: $89,063
25th percentile: $79,821
75th percentile: $123,750
Occupations: 51

All disclosed wages

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

25th $79,821 · median $89,063 · 75th $123,750 · 102 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
19-2012.00 · Physicists	9	$75,417	$79,167	$84,375	Not stated 9
19-2031.00 · Chemists	8	$80,000	$86,667	$90,000	Not stated 8
19-1029.02 · Molecular and Cellular Biologists	6	$82,500	$85,000	$107,500	Not stated 6
19-1042.00 · Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists	5	$85,625	$88,750	$91,875	Not stated 5
19-3039.02 · Neuropsychologists	5	$77,083	$79,167	$88,750	Not stated 5
25-1032.00 · Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary	4	$95,000	$140,000	$145,000	I 3 · Not stated 1
25-1121.00 · Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary	4	$80,000	$116,667	$118,333	I 1 · II 2 · Not stated 1
17-2081.00 · Environmental Engineers	3	$81,875	$83,750	$96,250	I 1 · Not stated 2
17-2031.00 · Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers	3	$71,875	$73,750	$81,250	Not stated 3
25-1011.00 · Business Teachers, Postsecondary	2	$172,500	$175,000	$287,500	I 1 · Not stated 1
19-3033.00 · Clinical and Counseling Psychologists	2	$152,500	$155,000	$212,500	II 2
25-1051.00 · Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, and Space Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary	2	$151,250	$152,500	$153,750	I 2
25-1021.00 · Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary	2	$142,500	$145,000	$152,500	I 2
19-3051.00 · Urban and Regional Planners	2	$131,250	$132,500	$133,750	II 2
15-1243.01 · Data Warehousing Specialists	2	$126,250	$127,500	$128,750	I 2
25-1126.00 · Philosophy and Religion Teachers, Postsecondary	2	$122,500	$125,000	$127,500	I 2
11-9033.00 · Education Administrators, Postsecondary	2	$97,500	$100,000	$162,500	I 1 · II 1
17-2053.00 · Civil Engineers, R&D	2	$97,500	$100,000	$187,500	IV 1 · Not stated 1
17-2041.00 · Chemical Engineers	2	$81,250	$82,500	$83,750	Not stated 2
19-1029.00 · Biological Scientists, All Other	2	$77,500	$80,000	$87,500	Not stated 2
19-1021.00 · Biochemists and Biophysicists	2	$76,250	$77,500	$78,750	Not stated 2
19-1022.00 · Microbiologists	2	$72,500	$75,000	$87,500	Not stated 2
25-1112.00 · Law Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$361,250	$362,500	$363,750	IV 1
25-1063.00 · Economics Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$251,250	$252,500	$253,750	I 1
17-2051.00 · Civil Engineers	1	$171,250	$172,500	$173,750	IV 1
25-1061.00 · Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$166,250	$167,500	$168,750	I 1
25-1022.00 · Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$146,250	$147,500	$148,750	I 1
15-1243.00 · Database Architects	1	$126,250	$127,500	$128,750	I 1
25-1062.00 · Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$121,250	$122,500	$123,750	I 1
25-1125.00 · History Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$116,250	$117,500	$118,750	I 1
25-1031.00 · Architecture Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$116,250	$117,500	$118,750	I 1
15-2031.00 · Operations Research Analysts	1	$111,250	$112,500	$113,750	I 1
15-1295.00 · Software Developers, Non R&D	1	$111,250	$112,500	$113,750	II 1
19-2011.00 · Astronomers	1	$101,250	$102,500	$103,750	I 1
13-1082.00 · Project Management Specialists	1	$101,250	$102,500	$103,750	Not stated 1
19-2042.00 · Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers	1	$96,250	$97,500	$98,750	Not stated 1
13-2011.00 · Accountants and Auditors	1	$91,250	$92,500	$93,750	II 1
15-2051.00 · Data Scientists	1	$86,250	$87,500	$88,750	I 1
15-2021.00 · Mathematicians	1	$86,250	$87,500	$88,750	Not stated 1
17-2161.00 · Nuclear Engineers	1	$86,250	$87,500	$88,750	Not stated 1
19-1029.04 · Biologists	1	$86,250	$87,500	$88,750	Not stated 1
19-1029.01 · Bioinformatics Scientists	1	$86,250	$87,500	$88,750	Not stated 1
19-1013.00 · Soil and Plant Scientists	1	$81,250	$82,500	$83,750	Not stated 1
19-4061.00 · Social Science Research Assistants	1	$76,250	$77,500	$78,750	II 1
19-1029.03 · Geneticists	1	$76,250	$77,500	$78,750	Not stated 1
19-3039.00 · Psychologists, All Other	1	$76,250	$77,500	$78,750	Not stated 1
17-2144.00 · Mechanical Engineers, R&D	1	$71,250	$72,500	$73,750	Not stated 1
19-3011.00 · Economists	1	$71,250	$72,500	$73,750	I 1
19-2041.00 · Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health	1	$71,250	$72,500	$73,750	Not stated 1
15-1221.00 · Computer and Information Research Scientists	1	$71,250	$72,500	$73,750	Not stated 1
25-4012.00 · Curators	1	$66,250	$67,500	$68,750	Not 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.

19-2012.00 · Physicists9 disclosed positions · 1 metro

25th $75,417 · median $79,167 · 75th $84,375 · 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.

19-2031.00 · Chemists8 disclosed positions · 1 metro

25th $80,000 · median $86,667 · 75th $90,000 · 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.

19-1029.02 · Molecular and Cellular Biologists6 disclosed positions · 1 metro

25th $82,500 · median $85,000 · 75th $107,500 · 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
Berkeley, CA	96	$80,000	$88,750	$119,167	47
Richmond, CA	2	$172,500	$175,000	$187,500	2
Berkeely, CA	1	$146,250	$147,500	$148,750	1
Berkeleey, CA	1	$361,250	$362,500	$363,750	1
Emeryville, CA	1	$71,250	$72,500	$73,750	1
Washington, DC	1	$76,250	$77,500	$78,750	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	26	25.5%
Level II	10	9.8%
Level IV	3	2.9%
Not stated	63	61.8%

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