Research Associate salary at West Virginia University

Based on 3 certified work-visa filings, the median filed wage is $75,000. That is 6% above the $70,838 median across all employers filing this title.

Median

$75,000

25th pct

$66,500

75th pct

$87,500

90th pct

$95,000

Filings

$58,000$100,000

How West Virginia University compares

Other employers filing Research Associate

Employer	Filings	Median	vs. this page
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania	86	$75,000	+0%
Johns Hopkins University	86	$71,532	-5%
Harvard University	75	$82,400	+10%
Mayo Clinic	67	$77,961	+4%
Northwestern University	51	$70,000	-7%
The University of Virginia	51	$64,000	-15%
Weill Cornell Medical College	40	$75,817	+1%
The University of Texas at Austin	38	$90,000	+20%
Michigan State University	36	$64,314	-14%
Cornell University	32	$80,750	+8%
Oregon State University	32	$68,004	-9%
Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC	32	$66,706	-11%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	32	$64,304	-14%
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	28	$80,000	+7%
UT Southwestern Medical Center	28	$57,175	-24%
The University of Southern California	24	$69,071	-8%
NYU Grossman School of Medicine	21	$62,000	-17%
The Rockefeller University	20	$78,140	+4%
University of Maryland Baltimore	18	$76,782	+2%
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University	18	$76,126	+2%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	16	$85,588	+14%
University of Utah	15	$70,000	-7%
Leland Stanford Jr. Univ/SLAC National Accelerator Lab	14	$78,853	+5%
Case Western Reserve University	14	$60,281	-20%
The University of Texas at Dallas	14	$60,000	-20%

Individual filings

Certified determinations for this role

Location	Wage	Prevailing	Level	Visa	Decided
Morgantown, WV	$100,000	$84,282	II	H-1B	Sep 30, 2025
Morgantown, WV	$75,000	$67,018	I	H-1B	Aug 22, 2025
Morgantown, WV	$58,000	$53,269	I	H-1B	Jul 18, 2025

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