SOC 15-1221.00
Computer and Information Research Scientists — H-1B offered wages
Wages employers attested they would pay on certified Labor Condition Applications filed under SOC 15-1221.00.
- 25th percentile
- $144,241
- Median
- $168,333
- 75th percentile
- $201,668
- Employers
- 100
Offered wage, per year
Derived from $5,000 bands, not stored
6,818 disclosed positions
Offered wage, per year
Distinct sponsors behind the distribution
Top 100 sponsors of this occupation were read
Wage distribution
Each band is $5,000 wide.
25th $144,241 · median $168,333 · 75th $201,668 · 6,818 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.
Prevailing wage level
Level I is entry, IV is fully competent. The level sets the wage floor the employer had to meet.
Level I
122
9%
Level II
594
42%
Level III
302
21%
Level IV
188
13%
Not stated
215
15%
By employer
Each median is derived from that employer's own wage bands for this occupation — never an average of medians.
| Employer | Headquarters | Median | Positions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon.com Services LLC | Seattle, WA | $165,260 | 2,564 |
| NVIDIA Corporation | Santa Clara, CA | $168,292 | 1,267 |
| Google LLC | Mountain View, CA | $149,888 | 793 |
| Meta Platforms, Inc | Menlo Park, CA | $205,081 | 593 |
| Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. | Seattle, WA | $163,917 | 253 |
| Amazon Web Services, Inc. | Seattle, WA | $165,968 | 234 |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | Chicago, IL | $149,125 | 193 |
| Oracle America, Inc. | Austin, TX | $204,500 | 124 |
| Adobe Inc. | San Jose, CA | $176,500 | 89 |
| Palo Alto Networks, Inc. | Santa Clara, CA | $182,600 | 76 |
| OpenAI OpCo, LLC | San Francisco, CA | $250,167 | 64 |
| Salesforce, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | $201,125 | 49 |
| Anthropic, PBC | San Francisco, CA | $217,167 | 36 |
| Brookhaven National Laboratory | Upton, NY | $124,167 | 35 |
| Tencent America LLC | PALO ALTO, CA | $222,578 | 33 |
By metro
Metros with at least 15 disclosed positions across 3 or more employers.
| Metro | Median | Positions | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Clara, CA | $173,364 | 1,267 | 10 |
| Seattle, WA | $176,582 | 1,075 | 14 |
| New York, NY | $172,431 | 670 | 18 |
| San Francisco, CA | $134,968 | 467 | 16 |
| Bellevue, WA | $156,509 | 374 | 12 |
| Austin, TX | $151,786 | 361 | 8 |
| Mountain View, CA | $164,375 | 357 | 7 |
| Redmond, WA | $179,500 | 290 | 6 |
| Sunnyvale, CA | $201,250 | 271 | 8 |
| Arlington, VA | $158,188 | 251 | 3 |
| Palo Alto, CA | $172,803 | 169 | 12 |
| San Jose, CA | $200,750 | 112 | 13 |
| Pasadena, CA | $119,063 | 65 | 4 |
| San Diego, CA | $160,595 | 65 | 4 |
| Chicago, IL | $160,500 | 44 | 6 |
103 further metros are present in the data but below the reporting floor, so no range is published for them.
Percentiles are interpolated inside $5,000 bands summed across the 100 largest sponsors of this occupation, which is what the precomputed ranking holds — so they describe those sponsors, not the whole labour market. A page is only published when at least 25 disclosed positions across 3 employers stand behind it. Wages are what the employer attested at filing time, before the job started.