Research Scientist salary at Purdue University

Based on 16 certified work-visa filings, the median filed wage is $77,012. That is 41% below the $129,917 median across all employers filing this title.

Median

$77,012

25th pct

$70,000

75th pct

$93,668

90th pct

$117,253

Filings

$63,000$123,840

How Purdue University compares

Other employers filing Research Scientist

Employer	Filings	Median	vs. this page
Meta Platforms, Inc	474	$184,374	+139%
Google LLC	187	$193,700	+152%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	97	$83,350	+8%
NVIDIA Corporation	90	$184,000	+139%
Intel Corporation	44	$144,173	+87%
The University of Virginia	39	$68,300	-11%
ByteDance Inc.	36	$252,300	+228%
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	35	$73,500	-5%
Research Foundation of Suny at Buffalo	30	$64,698	-16%
NYU Grossman School of Medicine	28	$82,867	+8%
UT Southwestern Medical Center	25	$70,179	-9%
Brigham and Women's Hospital	23	$78,000	+1%
The Ohio State University	23	$77,246	+0%
University of Illinois	17	$68,000	-12%
Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC	16	$177,163	+130%
Purdue University	16	$77,012	—
Trustees of Boston University	15	$74,314	-4%
University of Pittsburgh	15	$65,000	-16%
KLA Corporation	14	$160,028	+108%
Research Foundation for the State University of New York	14	$71,200	-8%
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio	14	$58,150	-24%
Qps, LLC	13	$88,500	+15%
IBM Corporation	12	$212,729	+176%
Netflix Global, LLC	11	$257,421	+234%
Bay Area Environmental Research Institute	11	$120,000	+56%

Individual filings

Certified determinations for this role

Location	Wage	Prevailing	Level	Visa	Decided
West Lafayette, IN	$76,440	$76,440	III	H-1B	Sep 15, 2025
West Lafayette, IN	$71,400	$58,157	I	H-1B	Sep 12, 2025
West Lafayette, IN	$63,000	$62,566	III	H-1B	Aug 26, 2025
West Lafayette, IN	$70,000	$67,496	II	H-1B	Aug 13, 2025
West Lafayette, IN	$70,000	$67,496	II	H-1B	Aug 8, 2025
West Lafayette, IN	$65,000	$59,966	II	H-1B	Jul 7, 2025
West Lafayette, IN	$86,772	$62,525	III	H-1B	Jun 13, 2025
West Lafayette, IN	$104,672	$104,645	IV	H-1B	Mar 27, 2025
West Lafayette, IN	$123,840	$104,645	IV	H-1B	Mar 4, 2025
West Lafayette, IN	$123,505	$87,506	III	H-1B	Feb 14, 2025
West Lafayette, IN	$77,584	$77,584	IV	H-1B	Jan 29, 2025
West Lafayette, IN	$65,562	$65,562	II	H-1B	Dec 23, 2024
West Lafayette, IN	$70,000	$58,843	I	H-1B	Dec 12, 2024
West Lafayette, IN	$89,989	$89,898	III	H-1B	Nov 22, 2024
West Lafayette, IN	$90,000	$82,368	IV	H-1B	Nov 5, 2024
West Lafayette, IN	$111,000	$87,506	III	H-1B	Nov 1, 2024

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