Professor salary at Columbia University

Based on 2 certified work-visa filings, the median filed wage is $313,850. That is 74% above the $180,000 median across all employers filing this title.

Median

$313,850

25th pct

$270,775

75th pct

$356,925

90th pct

$382,770

Filings

$227,700$400,000

How Columbia University compares

Other employers filing Professor

Employer	Filings	Median	vs. this page
University of Wisconsin System	6	$214,726	-32%
Yale University	4	$274,800	-12%
University of Utah	4	$187,500	-40%
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	3	$375,311	+20%
Texas A&M University	3	$279,450	-11%
University of Michigan	3	$189,405	-40%
The University of Texas at Austin	3	$180,000	-43%
Indiana University	3	$175,000	-44%
University of California at Santa Barbara	3	$171,700	-45%
The University of Virginia	3	$132,000	-58%
Duke University	2	$358,769	+14%
Columbia University	2	$313,850	—
University of Alabama Health Services Foundation, PC	2	$306,500	-2%
Harvard University	2	$291,011	-7%
Washington University	2	$253,474	-19%
Northwestern University	2	$244,500	-22%
University of Washington	2	$236,294	-25%
Northeastern University	2	$210,888	-33%
University of Pittsburgh	2	$206,500	-34%
University of Illinois	2	$205,000	-35%
University of California, Berkeley	2	$190,165	-39%
Wake Forest University Health Sciences	2	$184,998	-41%
University of Notre Dame du Lac	2	$175,000	-44%
Michigan State University	2	$157,500	-50%
Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund	2	$155,082	-51%

Individual filings

Certified determinations for this role

Location	Wage	Prevailing	Level	Visa	Decided
New York, NY	$400,000	$158,340	IV	H-1B	Sep 23, 2025
New York, NY	$227,700	$175,630	IV	E-3 Australian	Nov 19, 2024

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