Research Scientist salary at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Based on 97 certified work-visa filings, the median filed wage is $83,350. That is 36% below the $129,917 median across all employers filing this title.

Median

$83,350

25th pct

$77,700

75th pct

$105,000

90th pct

$114,145

Filings

$69,010$145,950

How Massachusetts Institute of Technology compares

Other employers filing Research Scientist

Employer	Filings	Median	vs. this page
Meta Platforms, Inc	474	$184,374	+121%
Google LLC	187	$193,700	+132%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	97	$83,350	—
NVIDIA Corporation	90	$184,000	+121%
Intel Corporation	44	$144,173	+73%
The University of Virginia	39	$68,300	-18%
ByteDance Inc.	36	$252,300	+203%
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	35	$73,500	-12%
Research Foundation of Suny at Buffalo	30	$64,698	-22%
NYU Grossman School of Medicine	28	$82,867	-1%
UT Southwestern Medical Center	25	$70,179	-16%
Brigham and Women's Hospital	23	$78,000	-6%
The Ohio State University	23	$77,246	-7%
University of Illinois	17	$68,000	-18%
Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC	16	$177,163	+113%
Purdue University	16	$77,012	-8%
Trustees of Boston University	15	$74,314	-11%
University of Pittsburgh	15	$65,000	-22%
KLA Corporation	14	$160,028	+92%
Research Foundation for the State University of New York	14	$71,200	-15%
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio	14	$58,150	-30%
Qps, LLC	13	$88,500	+6%
IBM Corporation	12	$212,729	+155%
Netflix Global, LLC	11	$257,421	+209%
Bay Area Environmental Research Institute	11	$120,000	+44%

Individual filings

Certified determinations for this role

Location	Wage	Prevailing	Level	Visa	Decided
Cambridge, MA	$72,500	$58,469	I	H-1B	Sep 29, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$78,750	$58,469	I	H-1B	Sep 23, 2025
Bedford, MA	$73,500	$58,469	I	H-1B	Sep 22, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$70,040	$47,507	I	H-1B	Aug 29, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$75,000	$71,406	—	H-1B	Aug 19, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$77,830	$47,507	I	H-1B	Aug 18, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$80,205	$80,205	III	H-1B	Aug 15, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$85,000	$58,469	I	H-1B	Aug 15, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$78,100	$58,469	I	H-1B	Aug 8, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$78,100	$58,469	I	H-1B	Aug 8, 2025
Cambrige, MA	$91,700	$89,024	II	H-1B	Aug 7, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$77,895	$56,638	I	H-1B	Aug 6, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$86,000	$73,611	III	H-1B	Jul 14, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$97,178	$97,178	III	H-1B	Jul 8, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$80,000	$66,352	III	H-1B	Jul 8, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$71,500	$63,523	III	H-1B	Jul 8, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$81,200	$56,638	I	H-1B	Jul 7, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$83,350	$56,638	I	H-1B	Jul 7, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$93,558	$77,106	III	H-1B	Jun 27, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$203,170	$130,897	III	H-1B	Jun 20, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$170,000	$130,897	III	H-1B	Jun 20, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$85,000	$66,082	I	H-1B	Jun 18, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$93,558	$93,558	III	H-1B	Jun 17, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$90,000	$89,898	III	H-1B	Jun 16, 2025
Cambridge, MA	$79,700	$66,352	III	H-1B	Jun 11, 2025

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