Research Associate salary at Cornell University

Based on 32 certified work-visa filings, the median filed wage is $80,750. That is 14% above the $70,838 median across all employers filing this title.

Median

$80,750

25th pct

$74,535

75th pct

$89,910

90th pct

$111,384

Filings

$67,320$112,972

How Cornell University compares

Other employers filing Research Associate

Employer	Filings	Median	vs. this page
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania	86	$75,000	-7%
Johns Hopkins University	86	$71,532	-11%
Harvard University	75	$82,400	+2%
Mayo Clinic	67	$77,961	-3%
Northwestern University	51	$70,000	-13%
The University of Virginia	51	$64,000	-21%
Weill Cornell Medical College	40	$75,817	-6%
The University of Texas at Austin	38	$90,000	+11%
Michigan State University	36	$64,314	-20%
Cornell University	32	$80,750	—
Oregon State University	32	$68,004	-16%
Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC	32	$66,706	-17%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	32	$64,304	-20%
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	28	$80,000	-1%
UT Southwestern Medical Center	28	$57,175	-29%
The University of Southern California	24	$69,071	-14%
NYU Grossman School of Medicine	21	$62,000	-23%
The Rockefeller University	20	$78,140	-3%
University of Maryland Baltimore	18	$76,782	-5%
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University	18	$76,126	-6%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	16	$85,588	+6%
University of Utah	15	$70,000	-13%
Leland Stanford Jr. Univ/SLAC National Accelerator Lab	14	$78,853	-2%
Case Western Reserve University	14	$60,281	-25%
The University of Texas at Dallas	14	$60,000	-26%

Individual filings

Certified determinations for this role

Location	Wage	Prevailing	Level	Visa	Decided
Ithaca, NY	$124,610	$93,454	I	H-1B	Sep 29, 2025
Ithaca, NY	$67,320	$59,280	II	H-1B	Sep 11, 2025
Ithaca, NY	$75,480	$54,517	I	H-1B	Sep 9, 2025
Ithaca, NY	$80,000	$79,643	II	H-1B	Sep 2, 2025
Ithaca, NY	$85,272	$70,450	I	H-1B	Aug 25, 2025
Ithaca, NY	$80,000	$62,317	II	H-1B	Aug 25, 2025
Ithaca, NY	$74,651	$64,334	II	H-1B	Aug 12, 2025
Ithaca, NY	$82,534	$82,534	II	H-1B	Aug 6, 2025
Ithaca, NY	$76,500	$73,694	III	H-1B	Aug 4, 2025
Ithaca, NY	$72,925	$57,533	I	H-1B	Jul 21, 2025
Ithaca, NY	$76,000	$72,925	I	H-1B	Jul 7, 2025
Ithaca, NY	$75,000	$63,960	II	H-1B	Jun 18, 2025
Ithaca, NY	$74,187	$67,746	II	H-1B	Jun 9, 2025
Ithaca, NY	$82,630	$81,786	II	H-1B	May 29, 2025
Ithaca, NY	$89,880	$81,786	II	H-1B	Mar 31, 2025
Ithaca, NY	$72,925	$72,925	I	H-1B	Feb 3, 2025
Ithaca, NY	$88,504	$88,504	II	H-1B	Feb 3, 2025
Ithaca, NY	$90,000	$63,523	III	H-1B	Jan 31, 2025
Ithaca, NY	$89,461	$81,099	II	H-1B	Jan 30, 2025
Ithaca, NY	$90,745	$67,746	II	H-1B	Jan 28, 2025
Ithaca, NY	$70,990	$70,990	III	H-1B	Jan 27, 2025
Ithaca, NY	$81,500	$72,925	I	H-1B	Jan 10, 2025
Ithaca, NY	$78,000	$72,925	I	H-1B	Dec 31, 2024
Ithaca, NY	$111,384	$70,803	II	H-1B	Dec 9, 2024
Ithaca, NY	$104,000	$70,803	II	H-1B	Nov 27, 2024

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