Research Associate salary at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Based on 4 certified work-visa filings, the median filed wage is $108,597. That is 53% above the $70,838 median across all employers filing this title.

Median

$108,597

25th pct

$99,995

75th pct

$116,380

90th pct

$121,432

Filings

$89,115$124,800

How Massachusetts Institute of Technology compares

Other employers filing Research Associate

Employer	Filings	Median	vs. this page
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania	86	$75,000	-31%
Johns Hopkins University	86	$71,532	-34%
Harvard University	75	$82,400	-24%
Mayo Clinic	67	$77,961	-28%
Northwestern University	51	$70,000	-36%
The University of Virginia	51	$64,000	-41%
Weill Cornell Medical College	40	$75,817	-30%
The University of Texas at Austin	38	$90,000	-17%
Michigan State University	36	$64,314	-41%
Cornell University	32	$80,750	-26%
Oregon State University	32	$68,004	-37%
Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC	32	$66,706	-39%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	32	$64,304	-41%
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	28	$80,000	-26%
UT Southwestern Medical Center	28	$57,175	-47%
The University of Southern California	24	$69,071	-36%
NYU Grossman School of Medicine	21	$62,000	-43%
The Rockefeller University	20	$78,140	-28%
University of Maryland Baltimore	18	$76,782	-29%
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University	18	$76,126	-30%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	16	$85,588	-21%
University of Utah	15	$70,000	-36%
Leland Stanford Jr. Univ/SLAC National Accelerator Lab	14	$78,853	-27%
Case Western Reserve University	14	$60,281	-44%
The University of Texas at Dallas	14	$60,000	-45%

Individual filings

Certified determinations for this role

Location	Wage	Prevailing	Level	Visa	Decided
Cambridge, MA	$103,621	$93,038	IV	H-1B	May 16, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$124,800	$79,560	II	H-1B	Apr 3, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$89,115	$87,901	IV	H-1B	Feb 5, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$113,573	$76,440	III	H-1B	Jan 16, 2025

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