Research Scientist salary at Harvard University

Based on 5 certified work-visa filings, the median filed wage is $101,764. That is 22% below the $129,917 median across all employers filing this title.

Median

$101,764

25th pct

$100,000

75th pct

$110,000

90th pct

$111,486

Filings

$100,000$112,476

How Harvard University compares

Other employers filing Research Scientist

Employer	Filings	Median	vs. this page
Meta Platforms, Inc	474	$184,374	+81%
Google LLC	187	$193,700	+90%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	97	$83,350	-18%
NVIDIA Corporation	90	$184,000	+81%
Intel Corporation	44	$144,173	+42%
The University of Virginia	39	$68,300	-33%
ByteDance Inc.	36	$252,300	+148%
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	35	$73,500	-28%
Research Foundation of Suny at Buffalo	30	$64,698	-36%
NYU Grossman School of Medicine	28	$82,867	-19%
UT Southwestern Medical Center	25	$70,179	-31%
Brigham and Women's Hospital	23	$78,000	-23%
The Ohio State University	23	$77,246	-24%
University of Illinois	17	$68,000	-33%
Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC	16	$177,163	+74%
Purdue University	16	$77,012	-24%
Trustees of Boston University	15	$74,314	-27%
University of Pittsburgh	15	$65,000	-36%
KLA Corporation	14	$160,028	+57%
Research Foundation for the State University of New York	14	$71,200	-30%
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio	14	$58,150	-43%
Qps, LLC	13	$88,500	-13%
IBM Corporation	12	$212,729	+109%
Netflix Global, LLC	11	$257,421	+153%
Bay Area Environmental Research Institute	11	$120,000	+18%

Individual filings

Certified determinations for this role

Location	Wage	Prevailing	Level	Visa	Decided
Cambridge, MA	$100,000	$83,283	III	H-1B	Jul 23, 2025
Allston, MA	$100,000	$75,338	II	H-1B	Mar 25, 2025
Boston, MA	$101,764	$60,528	I	H-1B	Mar 11, 2025
Boston, MA	$110,000	$77,710	I	H-1B	Jan 10, 2025
Boston, MA	$112,476	$72,946	II	H-1B	Dec 18, 2024

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