Research Associate salary at Carnegie Mellon University

Based on 6 certified work-visa filings, the median filed wage is $61,166. That is 14% below the $70,838 median across all employers filing this title.

Median

$61,166

25th pct

$60,068

75th pct

$61,831

90th pct

$65,000

Filings

$57,422$64,476

How Carnegie Mellon University compares

Other employers filing Research Associate

Employer	Filings	Median	vs. this page
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania	86	$75,000	+23%
Johns Hopkins University	86	$71,532	+17%
Harvard University	75	$82,400	+35%
Mayo Clinic	67	$77,961	+27%
Northwestern University	51	$70,000	+14%
The University of Virginia	51	$64,000	+5%
Weill Cornell Medical College	40	$75,817	+24%
The University of Texas at Austin	38	$90,000	+47%
Michigan State University	36	$64,314	+5%
Cornell University	32	$80,750	+32%
Oregon State University	32	$68,004	+11%
Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC	32	$66,706	+9%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	32	$64,304	+5%
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	28	$80,000	+31%
UT Southwestern Medical Center	28	$57,175	-7%
The University of Southern California	24	$69,071	+13%
NYU Grossman School of Medicine	21	$62,000	+1%
The Rockefeller University	20	$78,140	+28%
University of Maryland Baltimore	18	$76,782	+26%
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University	18	$76,126	+24%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	16	$85,588	+40%
University of Utah	15	$70,000	+14%
Leland Stanford Jr. Univ/SLAC National Accelerator Lab	14	$78,853	+29%
Case Western Reserve University	14	$60,281	-1%
The University of Texas at Dallas	14	$60,000	-2%

Individual filings

Certified determinations for this role

Location	Wage	Prevailing	Level	Visa	Decided
Pittsburgh, PA	$61,008	$36,608	I	H-1B	Sep 30, 2025
Pittsburgh, PA	$59,754	$36,608	I	H-1B	Sep 23, 2025
Pittsburgh, PA	$55,474	$34,882	I	H-1B	Sep 15, 2025
Pittsburgh, PA	$62,000	$61,214	III	H-1B	Aug 4, 2025
Pittsburgh, PA	$61,324	$61,214	III	H-1B	Aug 4, 2025
Pittsburgh, PA	$68,000	$48,422	I	H-1B	May 2, 2025

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