SOC 19-2012.00

Physicists — H-1B offered wages

Wages employers attested they would pay on certified Labor Condition Applications filed under SOC 19-2012.00.

25th percentile: $75,299
Median: $95,648
75th percentile: $141,838
Employers: 100

Wage distribution

Each band is $5,000 wide.

25th $75,299 · median $95,648 · 75th $141,838 · 587 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

287

53%

Level II

108

20%

Level III

14%

Level IV

Not stated

By employer

Each median is derived from that employer's own wage bands for this occupation — never an average of medians.

Employers sponsoring Physicists, most disclosed positions first.
Employer	Headquarters	Median	Positions
Brookhaven National Laboratory	Upton, NY	$122,692	124
Applied Materials, Inc	Santa Clara, CA	$184,900	53
Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC	Batavia, IL	$95,500	22
UT-BATTELLE, LLC (OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY)	OAK RIDGE, TN	$123,750	19
University of Maryland College Park	College Park, MD	$77,500	15
Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC	Livermore, CA	$183,333	14
The Trustees of Princeton University	Princeton, NJ	$97,500	13
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Berkeley, CA	$170,000	12
Triad National Security, LLC	Los Alamos, NM	$157,500	11
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY	EAST LANSING, MI	$96,250	11
Harvard University	Cambridge, MA	$72,143	10
University of California, Berkeley	Berkeley, CA	$79,167	9
California Institute of Technology/Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Pasadena, CA	$130,000	8
UChicago Argonne, LLC	Lemont, IL	$75,000	8
JEFFERSON SCIENCE ASSOCIATES, LLC	NEWPORT NEWS, VA	$112,500	7

By metro

Metros with at least 15 disclosed positions across 3 or more employers.

Worksite metro of the filing, not the employer's headquarters.
Metro	Median	Positions	Employers
Batavia, IL	$83,750	31	7
Cambridge, MA	$73,929	15	3
New York, NY	$87,500	15	4

88 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.