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: 97

How Massachusetts Institute of Technology compares

Other employers filing Research Scientist

Employers filing Research Scientist, compared with Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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

Certified Research Scientist filings at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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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