Research Scientist salary at Howard University

Based on 2 certified work-visa filings, the median filed wage is $63,404. That is 51% below the $129,917 median across all employers filing this title.

Median

$63,404

25th pct

$61,192

75th pct

$65,617

90th pct

$66,944

Filings

$58,979$67,829

How Howard University compares

Other employers filing Research Scientist

Employer	Filings	Median	vs. this page
Meta Platforms, Inc	474	$184,374	+191%
Google LLC	187	$193,700	+206%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	97	$83,350	+31%
NVIDIA Corporation	90	$184,000	+190%
Intel Corporation	44	$144,173	+127%
The University of Virginia	39	$68,300	+8%
ByteDance Inc.	36	$252,300	+298%
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	35	$73,500	+16%
Research Foundation of Suny at Buffalo	30	$64,698	+2%
NYU Grossman School of Medicine	28	$82,867	+31%
UT Southwestern Medical Center	25	$70,179	+11%
Brigham and Women's Hospital	23	$78,000	+23%
The Ohio State University	23	$77,246	+22%
University of Illinois	17	$68,000	+7%
Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC	16	$177,163	+179%
Purdue University	16	$77,012	+21%
Trustees of Boston University	15	$74,314	+17%
University of Pittsburgh	15	$65,000	+3%
KLA Corporation	14	$160,028	+152%
Research Foundation for the State University of New York	14	$71,200	+12%
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio	14	$58,150	-8%
Qps, LLC	13	$88,500	+40%
IBM Corporation	12	$212,729	+236%
Netflix Global, LLC	11	$257,421	+306%
Bay Area Environmental Research Institute	11	$120,000	+89%

Individual filings

Certified determinations for this role

Location	Wage	Prevailing	Level	Visa	Decided
Washington, DC	$67,829	$63,856	II	H-1B	Jul 25, 2025
Washington, DC	$58,979	$53,726	I	H-1B	Oct 21, 2024

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