SOC 19-2032.00

Materials Scientists — H-1B offered wages

Wages employers attested they would pay on certified Labor Condition Applications filed under SOC 19-2032.00.

25th percentile: $70,707
Median: $89,352
75th percentile: $128,125
Employers: 100

Wage distribution

Each band is $5,000 wide.

25th $70,707 · median $89,352 · 75th $128,125 · 321 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

34%

Level II

29%

Level III

21%

Level IV

Not stated

11%

By employer

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

Employers sponsoring Materials Scientists, most disclosed positions first.
Employer	Headquarters	Median	Positions
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.	San Jose, CA	$152,500	52
Brookhaven National Laboratory	Upton, NY	$110,000	30
UT-BATTELLE, LLC (OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY)	OAK RIDGE, TN	$89,423	23
Northwestern University	Evanston, IL	$64,063	13
Underwriters Laboratories Inc.	Evanston, IL	$107,500	8
Iowa State University of Science and Technology	Ames, IA	$81,000	8
Triad National Security, LLC	Los Alamos, NM	$146,250	7
Battelle Memorial Institute	Richland, WA	$121,667	6
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Berkeley, CA	$95,000	6
Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC	Idaho Falls, ID	$139,167	5
Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC	Livermore, CA	$127,500	5
THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY	MIDLAND, MI	$107,500	5
UChicago Argonne, LLC	Lemont, IL	$92,500	5
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station	College Station, TX	$63,750	5
The Leland Stanford, Jr University	Stanford, CA	$97,500	4

By metro

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

No metro has enough disclosed positions to break out for this occupation.

97 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.