H-1B Application Scientist Salary
The median H-1B base salary for a Application Scientist is $100,000, across 42 certified LCAs.
Median wage
$100,000
Average wage
$125,759
90th percentile
$138,576
Certified LCAs
42
Salary distribution
Annualized base salary on certified LCAs. Excludes bonus and stock.
25th
Median
75th
90th
- Lowest
- $55,099
- 25th
- $82,750
- Median
- $100,000
- Average
- $125,759
- 90th
- $138,576
- Highest
- $1,200,000
Based on 42 certified base wages, annualized.
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Top H-1B sponsors for Application Scientist
Employers ranked by certified LCA volume for this role.
| Company↕ | LCAs↕ | Median▼ |
|---|---|---|
| JH Technologies , Inc. | 2 | $130,000 |
| AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 3 | $107,598 |
| HORIBA Instruments Incorporated | 3 | $107,000 |
| Howard Hughes Medical Institute | 2 | $103,000 |
| Single Particle LLC | 3 | $100,000 |
| Nova Measuring Instruments Inc. | 4 | $99,580 |
| Foundation Medicine, Inc. | 2 | $94,207 |
| Lesaffre Yeast Corporation | 1 | $90,176 |
| Scientific Bioprocessing, Inc. | 2 | $90,000 |
| HydroGraph USA Ltd | 3 | $89,440 |
| Azure Biosystems, Inc. | 1 | $85,000 |
| Applied Photophysics, Inc. | 1 | $82,000 |
| Labtech, Inc. | 1 | $72,800 |
| DeNovix Inc | 1 | $65,000 |
| Inscopix, Inc. | 2 | $63,315 |
Salaries by location
Cambridge, MA · $100,000Piscataway, NJ · $107,000Palo Alto, CA · $63,315Lexington, MA · $131,307Ashburn, VA · $103,000Boise, ID · $80,881Minneapolis, MN · $90,000Manhattan, KS · $78,926Fremont, CA · $130,000Hillsboro, OR · $126,358Dublin, CA · $85,000Oxford, PA · $72,800Santa Clara, CA · $106,710Wilmington, DE · $65,000Beverly, MA · $82,000