Research Associate salary at Michigan State University

Based on 36 certified work-visa filings, the median filed wage is $64,314. That is 9% below the $70,838 median across all employers filing this title.

Median

$64,314

25th pct

$59,503

75th pct

$70,000

90th pct

$80,496

Filings

$52,662$85,176

How Michigan State University compares

Other employers filing Research Associate

Employer	Filings	Median	vs. this page
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania	86	$75,000	+17%
Johns Hopkins University	86	$71,532	+11%
Harvard University	75	$82,400	+28%
Mayo Clinic	67	$77,961	+21%
Northwestern University	51	$70,000	+9%
The University of Virginia	51	$64,000	-0%
Weill Cornell Medical College	40	$75,817	+18%
The University of Texas at Austin	38	$90,000	+40%
Michigan State University	36	$64,314	—
Cornell University	32	$80,750	+26%
Oregon State University	32	$68,004	+6%
Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC	32	$66,706	+4%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	32	$64,304	-0%
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	28	$80,000	+24%
UT Southwestern Medical Center	28	$57,175	-11%
The University of Southern California	24	$69,071	+7%
NYU Grossman School of Medicine	21	$62,000	-4%
The Rockefeller University	20	$78,140	+21%
University of Maryland Baltimore	18	$76,782	+19%
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University	18	$76,126	+18%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	16	$85,588	+33%
University of Utah	15	$70,000	+9%
Leland Stanford Jr. Univ/SLAC National Accelerator Lab	14	$78,853	+23%
Case Western Reserve University	14	$60,281	-6%
The University of Texas at Dallas	14	$60,000	-7%

Individual filings

Certified determinations for this role

Location	Wage	Prevailing	Level	Visa	Decided
East Lansing, MI	$71,000	$54,226	I	H-1B	Sep 22, 2025
East Lansing, MI	$63,627	$63,627	II	H-1B	Sep 12, 2025
East Lansing, MI	$85,176	$85,176	IV	H-1B	Sep 11, 2025
East Lansing, MI	$65,582	$63,045	I	H-1B	Sep 5, 2025
East Lansing, MI	$70,000	$63,773	III	H-1B	Aug 13, 2025
East Lansing, MI	$52,662	$50,960	I	H-1B	Aug 8, 2025
East Lansing, MI	$58,011	$50,960	I	H-1B	Aug 8, 2025
East Lansing, MI	$67,500	$55,661	I	H-1B	Jul 31, 2025
East Lansing, MI	$67,824	$56,139	I	H-1B	Jul 8, 2025
East Lansing, MI	$57,949	$57,949	I	H-1B	Jun 18, 2025
East Lansing, MI	$64,356	$50,149	—	H-1B	Jun 18, 2025
East Lansing, MI	$60,878	$55,099	—	H-1B	Jun 5, 2025
East Lansing, MI	$58,000	$42,640	II	H-1B	May 30, 2025
East Lansing, MI	$70,000	$67,496	IV	H-1B	May 15, 2025
East Lansing, MI	$80,496	$80,496	—	H-1B	May 6, 2025
East Lansing, MI	$64,086	$58,380	I	H-1B	May 4, 2025
East Lansing, MI	$65,000	$63,086	III	H-1B	Apr 14, 2025
East Lansing, MI	$61,880	$61,880	—	H-1B	Apr 3, 2025
Lansing, MI	$80,496	$65,936	II	H-1B	Mar 6, 2025
East Lansing, MI	$57,075	$57,075	I	H-1B	Mar 4, 2025
East Lansing, MI	$57,949	$57,949	—	H-1B	Mar 3, 2025
East Lansing, MI	$62,774	$62,774	III	H-1B	Mar 2, 2025
East Lansing, MI	$60,000	$58,011	III	H-1B	Mar 2, 2025
East Lansing, MI	$80,496	$65,936	II	H-1B	Feb 25, 2025
Grand Rapids, MI	$85,004	$50,149	—	H-1B	Jan 30, 2025

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