Offered wages

Washington State University — H-1B salaries

Every offered wage disclosed on Washington State University's certified labor condition applications — 41 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: $91,500
25th percentile: $75,625
75th percentile: $107,917
Occupations: 20

All disclosed wages

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

25th $75,625 · median $91,500 · 75th $107,917 · 41 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
25-1021.00 · Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary	6	$97,500	$107,500	$111,250	I 5 · II 1
25-1032.00 · Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary	5	$98,125	$101,250	$104,375	I 5
19-1013.00 · Soil and Plant Scientists	5	$61,250	$81,250	$84,375	I 5
25-1071.00 · Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary	4	$147,500	$150,000	$152,500	II 4
25-1011.00 · Business Teachers, Postsecondary	3	$81,875	$83,750	$221,250	I 3
25-1121.00 · Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary	2	$72,500	$75,000	$77,500	I 2
19-1029.02 · Molecular and Cellular Biologists	2	$72,500	$75,000	$82,500	I 2
19-4021.00 · Biological Technicians	2	$47,500	$50,000	$52,500	I 1 · II 1
25-1042.00 · Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$151,250	$152,500	$153,750	III 1
15-1299.09 · Information Technology Project Managers	1	$106,250	$107,500	$108,750	I 1
19-2032.00 · Materials Scientists	1	$91,250	$92,500	$93,750	III 1
25-1031.00 · Architecture Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$91,250	$92,500	$93,750	II 1
19-1042.00 · Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists	1	$91,250	$92,500	$93,750	II 1
25-1081.00 · Education Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$86,250	$87,500	$88,750	I 1
15-1212.00 · Information Security Analysts	1	$86,250	$87,500	$88,750	I 1
15-2099.01 · Bioinformatics Technicians	1	$76,250	$77,500	$78,750	I 1
25-1192.00 · Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary	1	$66,250	$67,500	$68,750	I 1
19-1022.00 · Microbiologists	1	$61,250	$62,500	$63,750	I 1
27-2022.00 · Coaches and Scouts	1	$61,250	$62,500	$63,750	II 1
19-1011.00 · Animal Scientists	1	$61,250	$62,500	$63,750	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.

25-1021.00 · Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary6 disclosed positions · 3 metros

25th $97,500 · median $107,500 · 75th $111,250 · 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.

25-1032.00 · Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary5 disclosed positions · 2 metros

25th $98,125 · median $101,250 · 75th $104,375 · 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.

19-1013.00 · Soil and Plant Scientists5 disclosed positions · 3 metros

25th $61,250 · median $81,250 · 75th $84,375 · 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
Pullman, WA	27	$71,875	$93,750	$111,250	16
Lind, WA	3	$81,875	$83,750	$91,250	1
Richland, WA	3	$98,750	$112,500	$116,250	2
Spokane, WA	3	$78,750	$82,500	$91,250	3
Farmington, UT	1	$86,250	$87,500	$88,750	1
Puyallup, WA	1	$51,250	$52,500	$53,750	1
San Jose, CA	1	$106,250	$107,500	$108,750	1
Vanvouver, WA	1	$91,250	$92,500	$93,750	1
Wenatchee, WA	1	$61,250	$62,500	$63,750	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	30	73.2%
Level II	9	22.0%
Level III	2	4.9%

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