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2026 Active Hiring by Occupation: Life Physical Social Science

Hiring volume, salaries, and employer trends — Based on FY2025 employer filings (latest full year of data).

All Job Title Occupation Law Firm Attorney Industry City State Status

Rank	Employer	No. of LCA ^*	Average Salary
1	The Leland Stanford, Jr University	364	$90,088
2	Washington University	326	$73,823
3	Johns Hopkins University	305	$81,324
4	University Of Michigan	289	$67,468
5	Columbia University	274	$81,720
6	Ut Southwestern Medical Center	269	$73,730
7	Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania	266	$82,430
8	University Of California, San Francisco	263	$84,556
9	St. Jude Children's Research Hospital	251	$115,045
10	The University Of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	235	$84,644
11	Mayo Clinic	234	$78,376
12	National Institutes Of Health, Hhs	230	$112,233
13	University Of California, San Diego	219	$81,034
14	General Hospital	217	$102,553
15	Emory University	217	$71,563
16	Baylor College Of Medicine	216	$68,705
17	Northwestern University	213	$79,977
18	Yale University	213	$76,268
19	Harvard University	187	$81,866
20	The Trustees Of Princeton University	181	$82,285
21	University Of Wisconsin System	180	$65,823
22	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	162	$111,399
23	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute	162	$84,130
24	University Of Pittsburgh	159	$69,467
25	Duke University	158	$71,516

26	Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai	155	$93,951
27	The University Of Alabama At Birmingham	149	$78,007
28	Nyu Grossman School Of Medicine	144	$85,888
29	Massachusetts Institute Of Technology	137	$90,842
30	Brigham And Women's Hospital	135	$92,705
31	Howard Hughes Medical Institute	130	$88,368
32	Ut-Battelle, Llc (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)	129	$104,751
33	The Ohio State University	128	$69,568
34	University Of California, Los Angeles	124	$82,098
35	The University Of Chicago	121	$74,911
36	Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey	120	$80,822
37	University Of Minnesota	119	$68,270
38	Eli Lilly And	111	$135,110
39	University Of California, Berkeley	111	$88,396
40	The Curators Of The University Of Missouri	111	$57,427
41	Triad National Security	108	$124,919
42	The University Of Texas At Austin	107	$71,767
43	University Of Florida	107	$69,038
44	University Of California, Davis	106	$79,539
45	Weill Cornell Medical College	105	$79,106
46	Zifo Technologies	103	$85,281
47	The Broad Institute	102	$91,327
48	The University Of Virginia	100	$69,555
49	California Institute Of Technology	95	$79,683
50	Texas A&M University	94	$71,816
51	Children's Hospital	93	$87,471
52	University Of Washington	92	$83,107
53	Battelle Memorial Institute	90	$117,332
54	Purdue University	90	$65,508
55	Amgen	89	$131,420
56	Amazon.Com Services	88	$152,627
57	Gilead Sciences	87	$163,065
58	Albert Einstein College Of Medicine	87	$78,492
59	Federal Express	86	$104,928
60	The Methodist Hospital Research Institute	86	$72,001
61	Novartis Institutes For Biomedical Research	84	$102,385
62	University Of Massachusetts Chan Medical School	84	$69,265
63	The Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia	83	$78,933
64	The Pennsylvania State University	82	$69,467
65	Indiana University Indianapolis	82	$69,412
66	University Of Miami	81	$77,954
67	Bristol-Myers Squibb	80	$146,010
68	University Of Colorado	80	$78,048
69	The University Of Texas Health Science Center At Houston	80	$72,492
70	Fermi Forward Discovery Group	78	$111,848
71	University Of Maryland Baltimore	78	$69,739
72	Brookhaven National Laboratory	77	$108,066
73	The University Of Southern California	75	$83,510
74	University Of Maryland College Park	75	$81,329
75	Regeneron Pharmaceuticals	74	$129,400

76	University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill	74	$71,515
77	Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	73	$115,403
78	University Of Illinois	72	$62,561
79	Lawrence Livermore National Security	71	$156,454
80	Texas A&M Agrilife Research	70	$61,930
81	Analysis Group	68	$149,062
82	The Scripps Research Institute	68	$103,201
83	University Of Utah	67	$84,953
84	Cornell University	67	$76,581
85	Iowa State University Of Science And Technology	67	$69,291
86	The University Of Iowa	67	$64,370
87	Novitium Pharma	66	$76,451
88	Vertex Pharmaceuticals	65	$143,288
89	Leland Stanford Jr. Univ/Slac National Accelerator Lab	65	$128,240
90	Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center	64	$75,469
91	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	63	$121,132
92	Uchicago Argonne	63	$120,008
93	New York University	63	$72,621
94	Michigan State University	62	$75,425
95	The Rockefeller University	61	$80,932
96	Regents Of The University Of California At Riverside	61	$77,881
97	University Of Colorado Denver	61	$67,101
98	The Dow Chemical	59	$126,664
99	Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories Professional Scientific Services	59	$67,241
100	Genentech	58	$168,844

All Job Title Occupation Law Firm Attorney Industry City State Status

The above report lists the top 1 - 100 H1B Visa sponsors(Life Physical Social Science) in fiscal year 2025). For Example, the first record on this report means that The Leland Stanford, Jr University filed 364 Labor Condition Applications(LCA) for H1B Visa in fiscal year 2025. The average salary of those job offerss is $90,088. The number and average salary are not for all H1B Visa jobs filed by The Leland Stanford, Jr University in fiscal year 2025. They are for Life Physical Social Science jobs only.

The visa sponsors(employers) are sorted by the number of Labor Condition Application(LCA) submitted. The number includes new, renew and transfer of LCA.

If two employers have filed same number of visa petitions in the same year and same category, they are further sorted by the average salary in descending order.

The salary is the average salary of all proffered salary on LCA or Form 9035. Sometimes the visa sponsors(employers) does not enter a specific salary, but a salary range. Our algorithm uses the middle point of the range to calculate the average salary.

*: The number of LCA includes renewed, transferred and cap-exempt LCA. Department of Labor(DOL) typically certifies more than 3 times the number of foreign work requests than the number of H-1B visas issued by USCIS.

A new LCA is needed if the foreigner worker changes his or her work location(even within the same state and same company), because the prevailing wage of the position depends on geographic location. However, if the new location is within the same Metropolitan Statistical Area or normal commuting distance, no new LCA is needed.