SOC 19-4061.00

Social Science Research Assistants — H-1B offered wages

Wages employers attested they would pay on certified Labor Condition Applications filed under SOC 19-4061.00.

25th percentile: $58,250
Median: $67,500
75th percentile: $79,545
Employers: 67

Wage distribution

Each band is $5,000 wide.

25th $58,250 · median $67,500 · 75th $79,545 · 148 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

31%

Level II

26%

Level III

17%

Level IV

19%

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 Social Science Research Assistants, most disclosed positions first.
Employer	Headquarters	Median	Positions
The Sphere Institute	BURLINGAME, CA	$74,808	31
Center for Strategic and International Studies	WASHINGTON, DC	$76,250	7
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY	EAST LANSING, MI	$61,500	7
The University of Texas at Austin	Austin, TX	$65,000	6
Georgetown University	Washington, DC	$72,500	5
Texas A&M University	College Station, TX	$56,250	5
The Trustees of Princeton University	Princeton, NJ	$70,000	4
New York University	New York, NY	$87,500	3
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center	CINCINNATI, OH	$62,500	3
The University of Alabama at Birmingham	Birmingham, AL	$58,750	3
The Brookings Institution	Washington, DC	$57,500	3
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University	Blacksburg, VA	$52,500	3
Northwestern University	Evanston, IL	$80,000	2
Research Foundation of CUNY	New York, NY	$80,000	2
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE	NEWARK, DE	$80,000	2

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
Washington, DC	$73,333	16	5

61 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 68 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.