Postdoctoral Fellow salary at Carnegie Mellon University

Based on 8 certified work-visa filings, the median filed wage is $70,000. That is 8% above the $65,000 median across all employers filing this title.

Median

$70,000

25th pct

$67,288

75th pct

$71,250

90th pct

$75,930

Filings

$62,941$77,193

How Carnegie Mellon University compares

Other employers filing Postdoctoral Fellow

Employer	Filings	Median	vs. this page
Emory University	74	$61,942	-12%
The Curators of the University of Missouri	62	$53,040	-24%
Harvard University	58	$70,304	+0%
NYU Grossman School of Medicine	55	$74,200	+6%
The University of Texas at Austin	52	$62,003	-11%
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	48	$70,950	+1%
Johns Hopkins University	48	$69,093	-1%
University of Maryland Baltimore	43	$64,356	-8%
Indiana University Indianapolis	41	$62,802	-10%
Georgia Institute of Technology	39	$64,356	-8%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	30	$80,378	+15%
University of Houston	26	$59,235	-15%
Clemson University	24	$60,000	-14%
Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund	22	$65,281	-7%
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies	19	$77,250	+10%
Albert Einstein College of Medicine	19	$70,000	+0%
Colorado State University	18	$63,678	-9%
Auburn University	18	$60,480	-14%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	17	$74,300	+6%
University of Connecticut Health Center	17	$61,800	-12%
The Methodist Hospital Research Institute	15	$64,500	-8%
Indiana University	14	$62,660	-10%
BOR USGA obo Augusta University	13	$58,000	-17%
Genentech, Inc.	12	$86,934	+24%
City of Hope National Medical Center	10	$75,437	+8%

Individual filings

Certified determinations for this role

Location	Wage	Prevailing	Level	Visa	Decided
Pittsburgh, PA	$67,829	$67,829	I	H-1B	Sep 12, 2025
Pittsburgh, PA	$78,100	$51,792	I	H-1B	Aug 14, 2025
Pittsburgh, PA	$70,000	$60,965	I	H-1B	Aug 8, 2025
Pittsburgh, PA	$70,000	$52,957	I	H-1B	Jan 29, 2025
Pittsburgh, PA	$65,666	$65,666	I	H-1B	Dec 12, 2024
Pittsburgh, PA	$62,941	$62,941	I	H-1B	Dec 9, 2024
Pittsburgh, PA	$70,000	$65,666	I	H-1B	Nov 15, 2024
Pittsburgh, PA	$75,000	$65,666	I	H-1B	Oct 4, 2024

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