SOC 19-2012.00
Physicists — H-1B sponsors
Employers filing Labor Condition Applications under SOC 19-2012.00, ranked by filings in this occupation.
- Sponsors
- 100
- Filings
- 540
- Job titles
- 165
- Median wage
- $95,648
Distinct employers among the top 100 for this occupation
Applications those employers filed under this SOC code
Distinct titles employers gave the same occupation
Offered wage, derived from $5,000 bands
587 disclosed positions
Top sponsors
Ranked by filings under this occupation, not by company size.
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, NY · Scientific Research and Development Services
124this role
302 lifetime
last filed FY2026
Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC
Batavia, IL · Scientific Research and Development Services
22this role
64 lifetime
last filed FY2026
UT-BATTELLE, LLC (OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY)
OAK RIDGE, TN · Scientific Research and Development Services
19this role
130 lifetime
last filed FY2026
University of Maryland College Park
College Park, MD · Colleges, Universities and Professional Schools
15this role
79 lifetime
last filed FY2026
Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
Livermore, CA · Scientific Research and Development Services
14this role
44 lifetime
last filed FY2026
The Trustees of Princeton University
Princeton, NJ · Colleges, Universities and Professional Schools
13this role
106 lifetime
last filed FY2026
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley, CA · Scientific Research and Development Services
12this role
75 lifetime
last filed FY2026
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
EAST LANSING, MI · Colleges, Universities and Professional Schools
11this role
140 lifetime
last filed FY2026
Triad National Security, LLC
Los Alamos, NM · Scientific Research and Development Services
11this role
47 lifetime
last filed FY2026
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA · Colleges, Universities and Professional Schools
10this role
174 lifetime
last filed FY2026
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA · Colleges, Universities and Professional Schools
9this role
101 lifetime
last filed FY2026
California Institute of Technology/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA · Colleges, Universities and Professional Schools
8this role
29 lifetime
last filed FY2026
Job titles filed under this code
The title is whatever the employer wrote on the application. Nothing here is reclassified or normalised.
| Job title as filed | Filings | Positions | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research Associate Physics | 35 | 35 | 1 |
| Research Scientist | 31 | 31 | 15 |
| Research Staff 3 Physics | 31 | 31 | 1 |
| Research Associate | 22 | 22 | 13 |
| Postdoctoral Research Associate | 20 | 20 | 12 |
| Postdoctoral Fellow | 19 | 19 | 6 |
| Research Staff 4 Physics | 19 | 19 | 1 |
| Postdoctoral Associate | 16 | 16 | 10 |
| Medical Physicist | 15 | 15 | 6 |
| Postdoctoral Scholar | 13 | 13 | 5 |
| Associate Research Scientist | 9 | 9 | 4 |
| Associate Scientist | 9 | 9 | 3 |
| Post-doctoral Associate | 9 | 9 | 1 |
| Research Staff 3 | 8 | 8 | 1 |
| Postdoctoral Research Scholar | 7 | 7 | 4 |
Where this role is filed
Metro areas with enough disclosed wages to report a range for this occupation.
Ranking and totals are computed over the 100 largest sponsors of this occupation, which is what the precomputed ranking holds. Filing counts are applications, and position counts are worker positions on those applications — neither is a headcount, because a continued-employment application renews someone who is already here. Wage distribution for this occupation.