Professor salary at Northwestern University

Based on 2 certified work-visa filings, the median filed wage is $244,500. That is 36% above the $180,000 median across all employers filing this title.

Median

$244,500

25th pct

$241,750

75th pct

$247,250

90th pct

$248,900

Filings

$239,000$250,000

How Northwestern University compares

Other employers filing Professor

Employer	Filings	Median	vs. this page
University of Wisconsin System	6	$214,726	-12%
Yale University	4	$274,800	+12%
University of Utah	4	$187,500	-23%
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	3	$375,311	+54%
Texas A&M University	3	$279,450	+14%
University of Michigan	3	$189,405	-23%
The University of Texas at Austin	3	$180,000	-26%
Indiana University	3	$175,000	-28%
University of California at Santa Barbara	3	$171,700	-30%
The University of Virginia	3	$132,000	-46%
Duke University	2	$358,769	+47%
Columbia University	2	$313,850	+28%
University of Alabama Health Services Foundation, PC	2	$306,500	+25%
Harvard University	2	$291,011	+19%
Washington University	2	$253,474	+4%
Northwestern University	2	$244,500	—
University of Washington	2	$236,294	-3%
Northeastern University	2	$210,888	-14%
University of Pittsburgh	2	$206,500	-16%
University of Illinois	2	$205,000	-16%
University of California, Berkeley	2	$190,165	-22%
Wake Forest University Health Sciences	2	$184,998	-24%
University of Notre Dame du Lac	2	$175,000	-28%
Michigan State University	2	$157,500	-36%
Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund	2	$155,082	-37%

Individual filings

Certified determinations for this role

Location	Wage	Prevailing	Level	Visa	Decided
Evanston, IL	$239,000	$45,930	I	H-1B	May 12, 2025
Chicago, IL	$250,000	$56,368	I	H-1B	Dec 13, 2024

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