Offered wages

University of Minnesota — H-1B salaries

Every offered wage disclosed on University of Minnesota's certified labor condition applications — 141 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: $73,125
25th percentile: $61,875
75th percentile: $92,981
Occupations: 53

All disclosed wages

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

25th $61,875 · median $73,125 · 75th $92,981 · 141 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	15	$60,938	$65,833	$73,125	I 8 · II 3 · III 4
19-1042.00 · Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists	13	$58,250	$67,500	$81,875	I 11 · II 2
19-1013.00 · Soil and Plant Scientists	9	$67,083	$76,250	$81,875	I 2 · II 3 · III 2 · IV 2
19-2031.00 · Chemists	8	$62,500	$66,667	$70,000	I 2 · II 6
25-1071.00 · Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary	7	$52,917	$85,833	$88,750	I 4 · II 3
15-1252.00 · Software Developers	6	$102,500	$106,667	$109,167	I 1 · II 4 · III 1
19-1029.01 · Bioinformatics Scientists	5	$80,625	$83,750	$91,875	II 2 · III 3
13-2011.00 · Accountants and Auditors	4	$72,500	$75,000	$87,500	I 2 · III 2
25-1124.00 · Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary	4	$51,667	$53,333	$55,000	I 1 · Not stated 3
25-1011.00 · Business Teachers, Postsecondary	3	$181,875	$183,750	$246,250	I 3
15-1212.00 · Information Security Analysts	3	$113,750	$121,250	$123,125	IV 2 · Not stated 1
25-1032.00 · Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary	3	$106,875	$108,750	$111,250	I 3
25-1021.00 · Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary	3	$91,875	$93,750	$136,250	I 3
19-1022.00 · Microbiologists	3	$71,875	$73,750	$91,250	III 2 · IV 1
19-1029.04 · Biologists	3	$58,750	$67,500	$71,250	I 2 · III 1
19-2043.00 · Hydrologists	3	$61,875	$63,750	$66,250	I 3
19-2041.00 · Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health	3	$58,750	$62,500	$76,250	I 2 · III 1
15-2041.00 · Statisticians	2	$97,500	$100,000	$102,500	I 2
25-1042.00 · Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary	2	$92,500	$95,000	$97,500	I 2
17-2141.00 · Mechanical Engineers	2	$91,250	$92,500	$93,750	II 2
19-1021.00 · Biochemists and Biophysicists	2	$67,500	$70,000	$77,500	I 2
25-1122.00 · Communications Teachers, Postsecondary	2	$66,250	$67,500	$68,750	I 1 · Not stated 1
21-1012.00 · Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors	2	$57,500	$60,000	$67,500	I 2
19-2032.00 · Materials Scientists	2	$52,500	$55,000	$107,500	I 1 · III 1
25-1193.00 · Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary	2	$52,500	$55,000	$92,500	I 1 · Not stated 1
29-1131.00 · Veterinarians	2	$46,250	$47,500	$48,750	Not stated 2
15-2021.00 · Mathematicians	2	$46,250	$47,500	$48,750	I 2
15-1299.08 · Computer Systems Engineers/Architects	1	$156,250	$157,500	$158,750	IV 1
25-1022.00 · Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$141,250	$142,500	$143,750	I 1
29-1021.00 · Dentists, General	1	$141,250	$142,500	$143,750	II 1
15-2051.01 · Business Intelligence Analysts	1	$126,250	$127,500	$128,750	III 1
25-1066.00 · Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$96,250	$97,500	$98,750	I 1
15-2041.01 · Biostatisticians	1	$91,250	$92,500	$93,750	II 1
25-1053.00 · Environmental Science Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$91,250	$92,500	$93,750	I 1
19-3099.00 · Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other	1	$91,250	$92,500	$93,750	III 1
19-2042.00 · Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers	1	$91,250	$92,500	$93,750	IV 1
19-3022.00 · Survey Researchers	1	$81,250	$82,500	$83,750	I 1
25-1062.00 · Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$81,250	$82,500	$83,750	I 1
15-2051.00 · Data Scientists	1	$81,250	$82,500	$83,750	III 1
19-3041.00 · Sociologists	1	$81,250	$82,500	$83,750	II 1
15-1244.00 · Network and Computer Systems Administrators	1	$76,250	$77,500	$78,750	I 1
19-1041.00 · Epidemiologists	1	$71,250	$72,500	$73,750	I 1
29-1224.00 · Radiologists	1	$66,250	$67,500	$68,750	I 1
19-2012.00 · Physicists	1	$66,250	$67,500	$68,750	I 1
19-1023.00 · Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists	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
19-1012.00 · Food Scientists and Technologists	1	$61,250	$62,500	$63,750	I 1
21-1019.00 · Counselors, All Other	1	$56,250	$57,500	$58,750	II 1
17-2131.00 · Materials Engineers	1	$56,250	$57,500	$58,750	I 1
19-4021.00 · Biological Technicians	1	$56,250	$57,500	$58,750	III 1
17-2071.00 · Electrical Engineers	1	$56,250	$57,500	$58,750	I 1
17-2144.00 · Mechanical Engineers, R&D	1	$56,250	$57,500	$58,750	I 1
19-1029.00 · Biological Scientists, All Other	1	$56,250	$57,500	$58,750	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 Biologists15 disclosed positions · 4 metros

25th $60,938 · median $65,833 · 75th $73,125 · 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.

19-1042.00 · Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists13 disclosed positions · 2 metros

25th $58,250 · median $67,500 · 75th $81,875 · 13 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.

19-1013.00 · Soil and Plant Scientists9 disclosed positions · 2 metros

25th $67,083 · median $76,250 · 75th $81,875 · 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
Minneapolis, MN	93	$62,917	$82,917	$101,250	41
St Paul, MN	21	$65,179	$68,929	$74,688	12
Saint Paul, MN	14	$63,750	$72,500	$82,500	12
Duluth, MN	10	$53,125	$57,500	$66,250	7
Chicago, IL	1	$96,250	$97,500	$98,750	1
Minneapol, MN	1	$51,250	$52,500	$53,750	1
Rochester, MN	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	76	53.9%
Level II	29	20.6%
Level III	21	14.9%
Level IV	7	5.0%
Not stated	8	5.7%

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