Materials Scientists visa sponsorship salary

Across 804 certified work-visa filings classified under SOC 19-2032, the median wage for Materials Scientists is $89,107. The middle half falls between $68,843 and $117,127; the top decile begins at $135,876.

This page groups every job title employers filed under this occupation code, so it covers the same work described as Materials Scientist, Research Associate (materials Science), Research Staff 3 and others.

Median: $89,107
25th pct: $68,843
75th pct: $117,127
90th pct: $135,876
Filings: 804

Who sponsors Materials Scientists

Ranked by number of certified filings for this occupation

Employers filing Materials Scientists, with wage percentiles
Employer	Filings	25th	Median	75th
The Dow Chemical Company	55	$93,746	$107,515	$118,102
Ut-battelle, LLC (oak Ridge National Laboratory)	49	$83,964	$86,944	$120,855
Brookhaven National Laboratory	24	$79,768	$80,000	$106,125
UChicago Argonne LLC	20	$70,758	$90,063	$109,922
Iowa State University of Science and Technology	19	$62,378	$77,250	$84,183
Battelle Memorial Institute	17	$117,383	$122,000	$131,073
University of Wisconsin System	14	$53,305	$58,656	$60,416
Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC	13	$70,803	$73,005	$88,983
University of Michigan	12	$62,000	$62,232	$70,919
The University of Texas at Austin	10	$60,273	$66,064	$74,299
University of Connecticut	10	$64,356	$65,746	$71,373
The Pennsylvania State University	10	$61,227	$62,058	$66,768
University of Illinois	10	$52,635	$55,030	$65,735
Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC	9	$101,196	$140,400	$150,540
Underwriters Laboratories Inc.	9	$106,500	$106,500	$110,000
University of North Texas	9	$63,300	$72,197	$75,000
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station	9	$57,120	$63,000	$67,000
W.m. Rice University	8	$54,500	$67,474	$71,250
Georgia Institute of Technology	8	$57,930	$60,328	$69,389
Triad National Security, LLC	7	$102,231	$105,487	$126,244
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	7	$81,528	$104,316	$180,918
Yale University	7	$69,170	$72,500	$89,898
University of California at Santa Barbara	7	$69,209	$71,769	$77,153
University of Houston	7	$58,200	$69,600	$73,800
Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC	6	$124,749	$128,916	$160,929
Micron Technology, Inc.	6	$119,250	$123,000	$124,500
Purdue University	6	$63,747	$92,495	$99,286
University of Colorado	6	$62,420	$79,840	$90,012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	6	$71,000	$72,750	$86,125
University of Illinois Chicago	6	$65,134	$69,434	$80,145
Northwestern University	6	$61,396	$67,791	$73,750
Research Foundation for the State University of New York	6	$60,735	$63,971	$65,000
University of Maryland, College Park	6	$51,885	$53,834	$56,144
Eastman Chemical Company	5	$121,700	$123,822	$128,345
Leidos, Inc.	5	$112,237	$112,237	$112,237
Nanolab Technologies, Inc.	5	$109,658	$109,658	$109,658
Eurofins EAG Materials Science, LLC	5	$109,658	$109,658	$109,658
Cornell University	5	$65,000	$104,000	$111,384
The University of Tennessee	5	$85,000	$102,000	$110,000
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.	5	$89,107	$89,107	$104,229
University of Delaware	5	$58,000	$70,747	$78,816
Clemson University	5	$61,428	$63,000	$70,803
North Carolina State University	5	$58,656	$60,500	$70,000
Infineum USA, Inc.	4	$125,150	$128,550	$141,975
Corning Research & Development Corporation	4	$114,018	$120,243	$128,487
Kimberly-Clark USA, LLC	4	$83,401	$90,601	$94,166
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	4	$54,500	$57,078	$62,742
The University of Alabama at Birmingham	4	$56,400	$56,400	$67,300
University of South Carolina	4	$41,808	$41,808	$46,356
Apple Inc.	3	$168,106	$178,110	$180,222
Applied Materials, Inc.	3	$150,268	$160,000	$171,512
QuantumScape Battery, Inc.	3	$145,996	$158,101	$158,101
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.	3	$133,890	$133,890	$133,890
A123 Systems LLC	3	$112,500	$130,000	$132,990
Solutia, Inc.	3	$123,884	$123,946	$123,946
E Ink Corporation	3	$114,268	$120,000	$122,500
SunHydrogen, Inc.	3	$108,118	$108,118	$111,436
Ntess LLC	3	$98,500	$98,500	$140,850
Mapei Corporation	3	$89,149	$89,149	$89,409
Smoore Labs	3	$83,800	$84,800	$88,800

By state

Where this occupation is filed from

Materials Scientists filings and median wage by state
State	Filings	Median
Texas	108	$84,998
California	96	$128,916
Tennessee	62	$87,358
New York	60	$79,768
Illinois	53	$82,416
Massachusetts	45	$121,222
Michigan	35	$107,515
Pennsylvania	25	$77,170
Washington	24	$118,284
Colorado	23	$70,803
Iowa	22	$79,399
Maryland	20	$82,564
Connecticut	18	$69,170
Idaho	18	$123,000
Wisconsin	18	$59,536

Job titles in this occupation

The exact wording employers used on their filings

Job titles filed under SOC 19-2032
Job title	Filings	Median
Materials Scientist	35	$109,922
Research Associate (materials Science)	18	$79,884
Research Staff 3	10	$125,000
Visiting Research Specialist	10	$59,463
Ames Laboratory Scientist I	9	$80,000
Materials Analyst, Dual Beam	9	$84,240
Research Science	9	$158,101
Postdoctoral Research Assistant	8	$60,809
Postdoctoral Researcher - Materials Science	7	$70,803
Manager, R&d	7	$139,901
Research Lab Specialist	5	$63,898
Postdoctoral Employee	5	$66,737
Battery Scientist	5	$125,000
Senior Research Specialist (rap Program)	5	$118,102
Ames Laboratory Scientist II	3	$96,000
Postdoctoral Associate (materials Science)	3	$60,000
Research Scientist (materials Scientist)	3	$171,600
Research Associate Materials Scientist	3	$82,400
Research Engineer IV	3	$70,000
Research Associate 5	3	$61,339
Research Scientist IV	3	$104,030
Specialist, Manufacturing	3	$118,000
Senior Scientific Associate	3	$95,481
Postdoc - Growth Mechanisms of 2d Materials & Nanomaterials	3	$84,336
Supplier Quality Management Specialist	3	$70,034
Sr. Scientist, Material Science	3	$100,700
Analytical/metrology Scientist	3	$93,730
Scientist Ii, Field Applications	3	$89,107
Vice President, Research and Development	3	$295,000
Researcher III - Materials Science	3	$90,000
Postdoctoral Research Associate - Photon-based Spectroscopy	2	$80,190
Associate Laboratory Director	2	$282,251
Argonne Scholar	2	$80,728
Senior Research Scientist - Physical	2	$131,455
Postdoctoral Researcher - Chemistry	2	$69,802
Materials Characterization Specialist	2	$74,781
Postdoctoral Research Associate - Pie of Sic Materials	2	$86,958
Chemical Spectroscopy Instrument Scientist	2	$127,890
Senior Application Development Scientist	2	$123,822
Postdoctoral Scholar (in Materials Sciences)	2	$71,772
Materials Science Fellow	2	$83,606
Postdoctoral Research Staff (materials Scientist)	2	$128,916
Computational Material Scientist	2	$131,119
Applications Scientist	2	$108,035
Textile Engineer	2	$86,411
Postdoctoral Research Associate - Materials Theory	2	$87,886
Senior Applications Scientist	2	$122,438
Lead Materials Scientist	2	$136,731
Postdoctoral Associate (research Scientist)	2	$60,000
Senior Testing Engineer	2	$126,400
Postdoctoral Reseach Associate	2	$56,500
Senior Materials Scientist	2	$158,500
Materials Scientist, Dual Beam	2	$117,329
Manager, Microscopy Ops	2	$158,101
Applications Research Scientist	2	$123,946
Senior Ts&d Specialist	2	$93,746
Control System Engineer Specialist	2	$92,361
Research Scientist II Computational Modeling	2	$106,500
Quantum Research Scientist	2	$100,714
Computational Scientist (materials Science)	2	$120,366

SOC 19-2032 is the federal occupation code the employer assigned to these filings. It is chosen by the employer and reviewed by the Department of Labor, so it is more consistent than the free-text job title — but two companies can still classify similar work differently. Where a title looks misplaced, the wage level usually explains more of the gap than the code does.