Research Associate salary at The University of Southern California

Based on 24 certified work-visa filings, the median filed wage is $69,071. That is 2% below the $70,838 median across all employers filing this title.

Median

$69,071

25th pct

$50,149

75th pct

$71,290

90th pct

$82,073

Filings

$50,149$88,878

How The University of Southern California compares

Other employers filing Research Associate

Employer	Filings	Median	vs. this page
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania	86	$75,000	+9%
Johns Hopkins University	86	$71,532	+4%
Harvard University	75	$82,400	+19%
Mayo Clinic	67	$77,961	+13%
Northwestern University	51	$70,000	+1%
The University of Virginia	51	$64,000	-7%
Weill Cornell Medical College	40	$75,817	+10%
The University of Texas at Austin	38	$90,000	+30%
Michigan State University	36	$64,314	-7%
Cornell University	32	$80,750	+17%
Oregon State University	32	$68,004	-2%
Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC	32	$66,706	-3%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	32	$64,304	-7%
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	28	$80,000	+16%
UT Southwestern Medical Center	28	$57,175	-17%
The University of Southern California	24	$69,071	—
NYU Grossman School of Medicine	21	$62,000	-10%
The Rockefeller University	20	$78,140	+13%
University of Maryland Baltimore	18	$76,782	+11%
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University	18	$76,126	+10%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	16	$85,588	+24%
University of Utah	15	$70,000	+1%
Leland Stanford Jr. Univ/SLAC National Accelerator Lab	14	$78,853	+14%
Case Western Reserve University	14	$60,281	-13%
The University of Texas at Dallas	14	$60,000	-13%

Individual filings

Certified determinations for this role

Location	Wage	Prevailing	Level	Visa	Decided
Los Angeles, CA	$53,269	$53,269	I	H-1B	Sep 29, 2025
Los Angeles, CA	$53,269	$53,269	I	H-1B	Sep 26, 2025
Los Angeles, CA	$69,071	$53,269	I	H-1B	Sep 26, 2025
Los Angeles, CA	$69,000	$53,269	I	H-1B	Sep 26, 2025
Los Angeles, CA	$75,608	$75,608	II	H-1B	Aug 15, 2025
Los Angeles, CA	$72,100	$72,100	—	H-1B	Aug 14, 2025
Los Angeles, CA	$50,149	$50,149	I	H-1B	Jul 8, 2025
Los Angeles, CA	$71,053	$71,053	III	H-1B	Jul 7, 2025
Los Angeles, CA	$50,149	$50,149	I	H-1B	Jul 7, 2025
Los Angeles, CA	$50,149	$50,149	I	H-1B	Jun 27, 2025
Los Angeles, CA	$72,000	$50,149	I	H-1B	May 7, 2025
Los Angeles, CA	$50,149	$50,149	I	H-1B	May 2, 2025
Los Angeles, CA	$84,843	$84,843	II	H-1B	Apr 17, 2025
Los Angeles, CA	$84,843	$84,843	II	H-1B	Apr 16, 2025
Los Angeles, CA	$50,149	$50,149	I	H-1B	Mar 21, 2025
Los Angeles, CA	$70,990	$70,990	I	H-1B	Mar 13, 2025
Los Angeles, CA	$88,878	$88,878	I	H-1B	Mar 12, 2025
Los Angeles, CA	$61,048	$61,048	II	H-1B	Jan 28, 2025
Los Angeles, CA	$70,990	$70,990	I	H-1B	Jan 27, 2025
Los Angeles, CA	$50,149	$50,149	I	H-1B	Dec 11, 2024
Los Angeles, CA	$70,990	$70,990	I	H-1B	Nov 7, 2024
Los Angeles, CA	$50,149	$50,149	I	H-1B	Nov 7, 2024
Los Angeles, CA	$69,407	$50,149	I	H-1B	Oct 16, 2024
Los Angeles, CA	$69,071	$50,149	I	H-1B	Oct 2, 2024

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