Postdoctoral Fellow salary at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Based on 19 certified work-visa filings, the median filed wage is $77,250. That is 19% above the $65,000 median across all employers filing this title.

Median

$77,250

25th pct

$74,588

75th pct

$79,019

90th pct

$79,656

Filings

$69,000$85,666

How The Salk Institute for Biological Studies compares

Other employers filing Postdoctoral Fellow

Employer	Filings	Median	vs. this page
Emory University	74	$61,942	-20%
The Curators of the University of Missouri	62	$53,040	-31%
Harvard University	58	$70,304	-9%
NYU Grossman School of Medicine	55	$74,200	-4%
The University of Texas at Austin	52	$62,003	-20%
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	48	$70,950	-8%
Johns Hopkins University	48	$69,093	-11%
University of Maryland Baltimore	43	$64,356	-17%
Indiana University Indianapolis	41	$62,802	-19%
Georgia Institute of Technology	39	$64,356	-17%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	30	$80,378	+4%
University of Houston	26	$59,235	-23%
Clemson University	24	$60,000	-22%
Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund	22	$65,281	-15%
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies	19	$77,250	—
Albert Einstein College of Medicine	19	$70,000	-9%
Colorado State University	18	$63,678	-18%
Auburn University	18	$60,480	-22%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	17	$74,300	-4%
University of Connecticut Health Center	17	$61,800	-20%
The Methodist Hospital Research Institute	15	$64,500	-17%
Indiana University	14	$62,660	-19%
BOR USGA obo Augusta University	13	$58,000	-25%
Genentech, Inc.	12	$86,934	+13%
City of Hope National Medical Center	10	$75,437	-2%

Individual filings

Certified determinations for this role

Location	Wage	Prevailing	Level	Visa	Decided
La Jolla, CA	$87,550	$78,541	I	H-1B	Sep 24, 2025
La Jolla, CA	$73,798	$73,798	I	H-1B	Sep 17, 2025
La Jolla, CA	$82,082	$78,541	I	H-1B	Aug 27, 2025
La Jolla, CA	$78,541	$78,541	I	H-1B	Aug 18, 2025
La Jolla, CA	$77,500	$73,798	I	H-1B	Jul 7, 2025
La Jolla, CA	$77,250	$73,798	I	H-1B	Jun 26, 2025
La Jolla, CA	$74,500	$73,798	I	H-1B	Jun 24, 2025
La Jolla, CA	$79,019	$79,019	I	H-1B	Jun 18, 2025
La Jolla, CA	$79,019	$79,019	I	H-1B	Jun 11, 2025
La Jolla, CA	$79,050	$73,798	I	H-1B	Jun 9, 2025
La Jolla, CA	$78,000	$73,798	I	H-1B	May 15, 2025
La Jolla, CA	$73,798	$73,798	I	H-1B	Apr 17, 2025
La Jolla, CA	$76,000	$73,798	I	H-1B	Apr 9, 2025
La Jolla, CA	$74,500	$73,798	I	H-1B	Mar 6, 2025
La Jolla, CA	$79,019	$79,019	I	H-1B	Mar 3, 2025
La Jolla, CA	$74,675	$73,798	I	H-1B	Feb 24, 2025
La Jolla, CA	$69,000	$59,946	II	H-1B	Jan 21, 2025
La Jolla, CA	$76,000	$73,798	I	H-1B	Jan 16, 2025
La Jolla, CA	$76,000	$73,798	I	H-1B	Dec 9, 2024

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