Research Scientist salary at Virginia Commonwealth University

Based on 4 certified work-visa filings, the median filed wage is $76,500. That is 41% below the $129,917 median across all employers filing this title.

Median

$76,500

25th pct

$70,625

75th pct

$80,000

90th pct

$80,000

Filings

$63,500$80,000

How Virginia Commonwealth University compares

Other employers filing Research Scientist

Employer	Filings	Median	vs. this page
Meta Platforms, Inc	474	$184,374	+141%
Google LLC	187	$193,700	+153%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	97	$83,350	+9%
NVIDIA Corporation	90	$184,000	+141%
Intel Corporation	44	$144,173	+88%
The University of Virginia	39	$68,300	-11%
ByteDance Inc.	36	$252,300	+230%
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	35	$73,500	-4%
Research Foundation of Suny at Buffalo	30	$64,698	-15%
NYU Grossman School of Medicine	28	$82,867	+8%
UT Southwestern Medical Center	25	$70,179	-8%
Brigham and Women's Hospital	23	$78,000	+2%
The Ohio State University	23	$77,246	+1%
University of Illinois	17	$68,000	-11%
Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC	16	$177,163	+132%
Purdue University	16	$77,012	+1%
Trustees of Boston University	15	$74,314	-3%
University of Pittsburgh	15	$65,000	-15%
KLA Corporation	14	$160,028	+109%
Research Foundation for the State University of New York	14	$71,200	-7%
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio	14	$58,150	-24%
Qps, LLC	13	$88,500	+16%
IBM Corporation	12	$212,729	+178%
Netflix Global, LLC	11	$257,421	+236%
Bay Area Environmental Research Institute	11	$120,000	+57%

Individual filings

Certified determinations for this role

Location	Wage	Prevailing	Level	Visa	Decided
Richmond, VA	$73,000	$58,906	I	H-1B	Jul 18, 2025
Richmond, VA	$63,500	$59,426	I	H-1B	May 22, 2025
Richmond, VA	$80,000	$59,426	I	H-1B	Mar 3, 2025
Richmond, VA	$80,000	$59,426	I	H-1B	Feb 5, 2025

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