Research Associate salary at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Based on 32 certified work-visa filings, the median filed wage is $64,304. That is 9% below the $70,838 median across all employers filing this title.

Median

$64,304

25th pct

$61,125

75th pct

$72,500

90th pct

$79,672

Filings

$52,250$87,880

How University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 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	+0%
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	—
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	+22%
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
Chapel Hill, NC	$68,192	$68,182	II	H-1B	Sep 26, 2025
Chapel Hill, NC	$63,648	$63,648	I	H-1B	Aug 27, 2025
Chapel Hill, NC	$74,340	$60,445	II	H-1B	Aug 25, 2025
Chapel Hill, NC	$68,182	$68,182	II	H-1B	Aug 14, 2025
Chapel Hill, NC	$57,325	$57,325	II	H-1B	Jul 3, 2025
Chapel Hill, NC	$83,152	$75,254	II	H-1B	Jun 23, 2025
Chapel Hill, NC	$82,500	$57,325	II	H-1B	May 2, 2025
Chapel Hill, NC	$56,430	$56,430	II	H-1B	Apr 29, 2025
Chapel Hill, NC	$55,349	$55,349	II	H-1B	Apr 24, 2025
Chapel Hill, NC	$59,784	$46,530	I	H-1B	Apr 24, 2025
Chapel Hill, NC	$64,608	$60,445	II	H-1B	Apr 21, 2025
Chapel Hill, NC	$57,750	$56,430	II	H-1B	Apr 16, 2025
Chapel Hill, NC	$61,572	$51,355	I	H-1B	Apr 10, 2025
Chapel Hill, NC	$66,199	$53,040	I	H-1B	Apr 4, 2025
Chapel Hill, NC	$87,880	$87,880	III	H-1B	Apr 3, 2025
Chapel Hill, NC	$52,250	$41,808	I	H-1B	Mar 27, 2025
Chapel Hill, NC	$75,840	$68,224	II	H-1B	Mar 20, 2025
Chapel Hill, NC	$68,000	$62,608	I	H-1B	Mar 17, 2025
Chapel Hill, NC	$62,592	$60,445	II	H-1B	Feb 28, 2025
Chapel Hill, NC	$63,000	$56,430	II	H-1B	Feb 24, 2025
Chapel Hill, NC	$59,784	$46,530	I	H-1B	Feb 24, 2025
Chapel Hill, NC	$72,000	$55,224	I	H-1B	Feb 11, 2025
Chapel Hill, NC	$68,768	$62,608	I	H-1B	Feb 7, 2025
Chapel Hill, NC	$80,092	$66,620	I	H-1B	Jan 10, 2025
Chapel Hill, NC	$64,000	$55,224	I	H-1B	Dec 31, 2024

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