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Research Scientist salary at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Based on 2 certified work-visa filings, the median filed wage is $82,317. That is 37% below the $129,917 median across all employers filing this title.

Median
$82,317
25th pct
$80,975
75th pct
$83,658
90th pct
$84,463
Filings
2
$79,633$85,000

How University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill compares

Other employers filing Research Scientist

EmployerFilingsMedianvs. this page
Meta Platforms, Inc474$184,374+124%
Google LLC187$193,700+135%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology97$83,350+1%
NVIDIA Corporation90$184,000+124%
Intel Corporation44$144,173+75%
The University of Virginia39$68,300-17%
ByteDance Inc.36$252,300+206%
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center35$73,500-11%
Research Foundation of Suny at Buffalo30$64,698-21%
NYU Grossman School of Medicine28$82,867+1%
UT Southwestern Medical Center25$70,179-15%
Brigham and Women's Hospital23$78,000-5%
The Ohio State University23$77,246-6%
University of Illinois17$68,000-17%
Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC16$177,163+115%
Purdue University16$77,012-6%
Trustees of Boston University15$74,314-10%
University of Pittsburgh15$65,000-21%
KLA Corporation14$160,028+94%
Research Foundation for the State University of New York14$71,200-14%
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio14$58,150-29%
Qps, LLC13$88,500+8%
IBM Corporation12$212,729+158%
Netflix Global, LLC11$257,421+213%
Bay Area Environmental Research Institute11$120,000+46%

Individual filings

Certified determinations for this role

LocationWagePrevailingLevelVisaDecided
Chapel Hill, NC$79,633$77,854IIH-1BAug 18, 2025
Chapel Hill, NC$85,000$62,608IH-1BApr 3, 2025
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