Offered wages

University of Washington — H-1B salaries

Every offered wage disclosed on University of Washington's certified labor condition applications — 96 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: $94,375
25th percentile: $78,889
75th percentile: $185,000
Occupations: 35

All disclosed wages

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

25th $78,889 · median $94,375 · 75th $185,000 · 96 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
25-1071.00 · Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary	19	$206,250	$268,750	$406,250	I 5 · II 10 · III 2 · Not stated 2
19-1021.00 · Biochemists and Biophysicists	11	$71,250	$76,250	$86,250	I 3 · II 1 · Not stated 7
19-1042.00 · Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists	7	$76,875	$86,250	$90,625	I 1 · II 1 · Not stated 5
29-1224.00 · Radiologists	6	$92,500	$97,500	$112,500	I 2 · III 1 · Not stated 3
29-1211.00 · Anesthesiologists	4	$90,000	$125,000	$365,000	I 2 · II 1 · Not stated 1
19-1029.01 · Bioinformatics Scientists	4	$75,000	$80,000	$85,000	Not stated 4
25-1011.00 · Business Teachers, Postsecondary	3	$183,750	$227,500	$271,250	I 3
19-2032.00 · Materials Scientists	3	$73,750	$77,500	$81,250	Not stated 3
19-1023.00 · Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists	3	$71,875	$73,750	$121,250	III 2 · Not stated 1
19-3022.00 · Survey Researchers	3	$71,875	$73,750	$81,250	Not stated 3
25-1032.00 · Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary	2	$117,500	$120,000	$132,500	I 1 · II 1
25-1021.00 · Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary	2	$102,500	$105,000	$197,500	I 1 · II 1
25-1122.00 · Communications Teachers, Postsecondary	2	$97,500	$100,000	$112,500	I 2
25-1126.00 · Philosophy and Religion Teachers, Postsecondary	2	$92,500	$95,000	$97,500	I 2
25-1124.00 · Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary	2	$91,250	$92,500	$93,750	I 2
29-1249.00 · Surgeons, All Other	2	$87,500	$90,000	$362,500	II 1 · Not stated 1
19-1029.03 · Geneticists	2	$81,250	$82,500	$83,750	Not stated 2
19-1029.02 · Molecular and Cellular Biologists	2	$72,500	$75,000	$82,500	Not stated 2
29-1243.00 · Pediatric Surgeons	1	$361,250	$362,500	$363,750	II 1
11-3021.00 · Computer and Information Systems Managers	1	$206,250	$207,500	$208,750	Not stated 1
25-1042.00 · Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$141,250	$142,500	$143,750	I 1
19-2011.00 · Astronomers	1	$106,250	$107,500	$108,750	II 1
25-1064.00 · Geography Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$96,250	$97,500	$98,750	I 1
25-1123.00 · English Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$96,250	$97,500	$98,750	I 1
15-1221.00 · Computer and Information Research Scientists	1	$91,250	$92,500	$93,750	Not stated 1
19-1022.00 · Microbiologists	1	$91,250	$92,500	$93,750	III 1
29-1217.00 · Neurologists	1	$86,250	$87,500	$88,750	Not stated 1
19-3011.00 · Economists	1	$81,250	$82,500	$83,750	Not stated 1
19-2043.00 · Hydrologists	1	$76,250	$77,500	$78,750	Not stated 1
15-2051.00 · Data Scientists	1	$76,250	$77,500	$78,750	Not stated 1
25-1054.00 · Physics Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$76,250	$77,500	$78,750	I 1
19-2031.00 · Chemists	1	$71,250	$72,500	$73,750	Not stated 1
29-1131.00 · Veterinarians	1	$71,250	$72,500	$73,750	I 1
19-3094.00 · Political Scientists	1	$66,250	$67,500	$68,750	Not stated 1
19-3039.02 · Neuropsychologists	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.

25-1071.00 · Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary19 disclosed positions · 2 metros

25th $206,250 · median $268,750 · 75th $406,250 · 19 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 Biophysicists11 disclosed positions · 1 metro

25th $71,250 · median $76,250 · 75th $86,250 · 11 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 Epidemiologists7 disclosed positions · 1 metro

25th $76,875 · median $86,250 · 75th $90,625 · 7 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
Seattle, WA	91	$78,594	$93,438	$143,125	33
Tacoma, WA	2	$77,500	$80,000	$182,500	2
Bothell, WA	1	$116,250	$117,500	$118,750	1
Dublin, CA	1	$206,250	$207,500	$208,750	1
Wa, WA	1	$206,250	$207,500	$208,750	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	29	30.2%
Level II	18	18.8%
Level III	6	6.3%
Not stated	43	44.8%

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