Research Associate salary at Harvard University

Based on 75 certified work-visa filings, the median filed wage is $82,400. That is 16% above the $70,838 median across all employers filing this title.

Median

$82,400

25th pct

$78,000

75th pct

$90,475

90th pct

$105,167

Filings

$59,288$109,188

How Harvard University compares

Other employers filing Research Associate

Employer	Filings	Median	vs. this page
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania	86	$75,000	-9%
Johns Hopkins University	86	$71,532	-13%
Harvard University	75	$82,400	—
Mayo Clinic	67	$77,961	-5%
Northwestern University	51	$70,000	-15%
The University of Virginia	51	$64,000	-22%
Weill Cornell Medical College	40	$75,817	-8%
The University of Texas at Austin	38	$90,000	+9%
Michigan State University	36	$64,314	-22%
Cornell University	32	$80,750	-2%
Oregon State University	32	$68,004	-17%
Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC	32	$66,706	-19%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	32	$64,304	-22%
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	28	$80,000	-3%
UT Southwestern Medical Center	28	$57,175	-31%
The University of Southern California	24	$69,071	-16%
NYU Grossman School of Medicine	21	$62,000	-25%
The Rockefeller University	20	$78,140	-5%
University of Maryland Baltimore	18	$76,782	-7%
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University	18	$76,126	-8%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	16	$85,588	+4%
University of Utah	15	$70,000	-15%
Leland Stanford Jr. Univ/SLAC National Accelerator Lab	14	$78,853	-4%
Case Western Reserve University	14	$60,281	-27%
The University of Texas at Dallas	14	$60,000	-27%

Individual filings

Certified determinations for this role

Location	Wage	Prevailing	Level	Visa	Decided
Cambridge, MA	$78,000	$68,827	II	H-1B	Sep 30, 2025
Boston, MA	$87,550	$75,130	II	H-1B	Sep 25, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$56,712	$45,240	I	H-1B	Sep 12, 2025
Boston, MA	$86,108	$83,283	III	H-1B	Sep 12, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$100,000	$75,338	II	H-1B	Sep 12, 2025
Boston, MA	$82,700	$56,638	I	H-1B	Sep 12, 2025
Boston, MA	$117,832	$75,130	II	H-1B	Sep 10, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$82,246	$78,873	II	H-1B	Sep 10, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$82,000	$75,130	II	H-1B	Sep 2, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$82,246	$75,130	II	H-1B	Sep 2, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$70,304	$62,670	I	H-1B	Aug 21, 2025
Allston, MA	$87,890	$70,450	II	H-1B	Aug 19, 2025
Allston, MA	$87,980	$69,576	I	H-1B	Aug 15, 2025
Boston, MA	$82,925	$75,130	II	H-1B	Aug 8, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$109,346	$108,243	III	H-1B	Aug 6, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$97,812	$95,576	II	H-1B	Aug 5, 2025
Boston, MA	$96,499	$71,406	I	H-1B	Jul 29, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$82,400	$66,144	II	H-1B	Jul 8, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$70,300	$68,224	II	H-1B	Jul 3, 2025
Boston, MA	$82,700	$56,638	I	H-1B	Jul 1, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$86,538	$79,950	II	H-1B	Jun 27, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$74,730	$58,260	I	H-1B	Jun 27, 2025
Boston, MA	$90,950	$56,555	I	H-1B	Jun 23, 2025
Boston, MA	$128,750	$71,136	III	H-1B	Jun 18, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$79,052	$66,144	II	H-1B	Jun 6, 2025

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