Does an H-1B filing mean a visa was granted?

No. A Labor Condition Application is the wage-and-worksite filing an employer makes before petitioning. Many certified LCAs never become petitions, and an LCA is not a visa.

Is a certified filing the same as USCIS approval?

No. Certification is a Department of Labor outcome. The I-129 petition is decided separately by USCIS and is not in this dataset.

Does a withdrawn filing count against a sponsor?

No. A withdrawal usually means the role was filled or dropped, so it is not a compliance signal and is not counted against a sponsor in the sponsor-health score.

Is the wage shown what an employee takes home?

No. Offered and prevailing wages are the figures on the filing, before tax, bonus or equity, and they describe the role rather than an individual paycheck.

Is the most recent fiscal year complete?

Not necessarily. The Department of Labor releases disclosure data quarterly, so counts for the latest fiscal years can still rise in a later release.

Why are some occupations or states missing?

Combinations backed by fewer than 25 filings, or fewer than 3 distinct employers, are not published at all. Small cells are omitted entirely rather than shown with unreliable numbers.

Sponsor FinderSOC 19-1029Updated September 2026

H-1B Sponsors for Biological Scientists, All Other

121 employers filed 10,942 H-1B Labor Condition Applications for Biological Scientists, All Other across the US between FY2010 and FY2026. The 50 largest are ranked below, with DOL certification outcomes and a sponsor-health signal.

Employers: 121top 50 listed
Filings: 10,94237% of all 29,236 for this role
Certified: 73.9%across those listed
Median wage: $65,000across the sponsors listed

How this total is counted: filings from employers with at least 25 for this occupation, a resolved employer and a recorded worksite state. That is 10,942 of the 29,236 total shown on the Biological Scientists occupation page (37%); the remainder is the long tail of employers below the publishing threshold.

How to read this

Does an H-1B filing mean a visa was granted?: No. A Labor Condition Application is the wage-and-worksite filing an employer makes before petitioning. Many certified LCAs never become petitions, and an LCA is not a visa. What an LCA is.
Is a certified filing the same as USCIS approval?: No. Certification is a Department of Labor outcome. The I-129 petition is decided separately by USCIS and is not in this dataset. How certification rate works.
Does a withdrawn filing count against a sponsor?: No. A withdrawal usually means the role was filled or dropped, so it is not a compliance signal and is not counted against a sponsor in the sponsor-health score. How sponsor health is calculated.
Is the wage shown what an employee takes home?: No. Offered and prevailing wages are the figures on the filing, before tax, bonus or equity, and they describe the role rather than an individual paycheck. How the prevailing wage works.
Is the most recent fiscal year complete?: Not necessarily. The Department of Labor releases disclosure data quarterly, so counts for the latest fiscal years can still rise in a later release.
Why are some occupations or states missing?: Combinations backed by fewer than 25 filings, or fewer than 3 distinct employers, are not published at all. Small cells are omitted entirely rather than shown with unreliable numbers.

Top 50 sponsors, ranked

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Employers sponsoring H-1B for Biological Scientists, All Other in the US, sorted by filings, descending. Column headers are sortable.
#					Wage levels
1	California Institute of Technology	690	53.8%	$48,960	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 25%, Level II: 50%, Level III: 25%
2	University of Michigan	619	67.5%	$64,906	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 45%, Level II: 31%, Level III: 19%, Level IV: 5%
3	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute	462	80.5%	$74,000	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 87%, Level II: 12%, Level III: 1%, Level IV: 0%
4	UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA	276	74.6%	$59,000	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 34%, Level II: 30%, Level III: 33%, Level IV: 3%
5	Microsoft Corporationlast filed FY2023	253	86.2%	$145,000	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level II: 100%
6	Johns Hopkins University	252	61.1%	$65,000	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 47%, Level II: 13%, Level III: 31%, Level IV: 8%
7	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDElast filed FY2019	233	75.5%	$43,692	—
8	The University of Iowa	212	75.0%	$60,000	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 71%, Level II: 28%, Level IV: 1%
9	Arizona State University	202	65.3%	$55,000	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 92%, Level III: 6%, Level IV: 2%
10	State University of New York, Upstate Medical Universitylast filed FY2019	201	72.1%	$49,470	—
11	General Hospital Corporation	181	77.9%	$75,275	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 40%, Level II: 31%, Level III: 12%, Level IV: 17%
12	Emory University	176	58.5%	$65,801	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 66%, Level II: 12%, Level III: 18%, Level IV: 5%
13	University of Maryland Baltimore	175	69.1%	$86,418	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 52%, Level II: 9%, Level III: 37%, Level IV: 3%
14	University of California, Los Angeles	169	85.8%	$68,900	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 60%, Level II: 40%
15	The Broad Institute, Inc.	164	78.0%	$75,502	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 84%, Level II: 7%, Level III: 7%, Level IV: 1%
16	ZIFO TECHNOLOGIES, INC	164	94.5%	$84,752	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 60%, Level II: 27%, Level III: 9%, Level IV: 4%
17	UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAlast filed FY2019	155	97.4%	$53,191	—
18	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKlast filed FY2019	150	74.0%	$75,000	—
19	Texas A&M AgriLife Research	148	67.6%	$50,000	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 32%, Level II: 52%, Level III: 10%, Level IV: 6%
20	Texas A&M University	146	69.9%	$57,000	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 36%, Level II: 41%, Level III: 21%, Level IV: 2%
21	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	145	95.9%	$100,000	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 10%, Level II: 29%, Level III: 32%, Level IV: 29%
22	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	144	95.8%	$79,332	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level II: 100%
23	New York University	144	81.9%	$49,560	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 17%, Level II: 25%, Level III: 42%, Level IV: 17%
24	Kelly Services, Inc.	128	52.3%	$68,266	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 39%, Level II: 48%, Level III: 13%
25	ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL	126	93.7%	$86,732	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 25%, Level II: 27%, Level III: 9%, Level IV: 39%
26	UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEElast filed FY2019	121	75.2%	$54,998	—
27	Georgia State University	118	61.9%	$51,000	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 100%
28	Google LLC	118	97.5%	$169,500	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 19%, Level II: 45%, Level III: 28%, Level IV: 7%
29	University of Arizona	115	67.0%	$50,000	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 25%, Level II: 38%, Level III: 31%, Level IV: 6%
30	PPD Development, L.P.	112	94.6%	$90,000	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 3%, Level II: 45%, Level III: 24%, Level IV: 28%
31	University of Houston	102	68.6%	$45,000	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 100%
32	Regents of the University of Minnesota	98	62.2%	$72,100	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 43%, Level II: 35%, Level III: 18%, Level IV: 4%
33	The Ohio State University	97	81.4%	$63,797	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 54%, Level II: 30%, Level III: 11%, Level IV: 4%
34	Washington University	97	82.5%	$63,000	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 67%, Level II: 30%, Level III: 2%
35	The University of Chicago	96	72.9%	$80,800	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 30%, Level II: 48%, Level III: 11%, Level IV: 11%
36	CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY/JET PROPULSION LABORATORYlast filed FY2019	95	60.0%	$61,984	—
37	Purdue University	94	59.6%	$54,956	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 18%, Level II: 45%, Level III: 23%, Level IV: 14%
38	University of Notre Dame du Laclast filed FY2019	91	86.8%	$40,373	—
39	The University of San Franciscolast filed FY2019	87	87.4%	$67,800	—
40	University of Hawaii	87	74.7%	$80,271	—
41	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	85	95.3%	$82,867	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 15%, Level II: 80%, Level III: 6%
42	University of California, Berkeley	85	78.8%	$76,650	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 100%
43	Illumina, Inc.	84	72.6%	$92,581	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level II: 23%, Level III: 50%, Level IV: 27%
44	University of Massachusetts Amherst	81	71.6%	$70,344	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 72%, Level II: 28%
45	Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc.	79	96.2%	$44,725	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 78%, Level II: 22%
46	PFIZER INC.	78	69.2%	$104,558	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level II: 69%, Level III: 23%, Level IV: 8%
47	University of Wisconsin System	77	35.1%	$60,500	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 77%, Level II: 15%, Level III: 8%
48	Baylor College of Medicine	73	71.2%	$64,550	—
49	Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Inc.	73	100.0%	$113,464	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level II: 27%, Level III: 50%, Level IV: 23%
50	The Florida State University	73	60.3%	$55,943	Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 60%, Level II: 30%, Level III: 10%

#1California Institute of Technology
Filings
690
Certified
53.8%
Median wage
$48,960
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 25%, Level II: 50%, Level III: 25%
#2University of Michigan
Filings
619
Certified
67.5%
Median wage
$64,906
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 45%, Level II: 31%, Level III: 19%, Level IV: 5%
#3Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Filings
462
Certified
80.5%
Median wage
$74,000
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 87%, Level II: 12%, Level III: 1%, Level IV: 0%
#4UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
Filings
276
Certified
74.6%
Median wage
$59,000
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 34%, Level II: 30%, Level III: 33%, Level IV: 3%
#5Microsoft Corporationlast filed FY2023
Filings
253
Certified
86.2%
Median wage
$145,000
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level II: 100%
#6Johns Hopkins University
Filings
252
Certified
61.1%
Median wage
$65,000
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 47%, Level II: 13%, Level III: 31%, Level IV: 8%
#7REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDElast filed FY2019
Filings
233
Certified
75.5%
Median wage
$43,692
—
#8The University of Iowa
Filings
212
Certified
75.0%
Median wage
$60,000
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 71%, Level II: 28%, Level IV: 1%
#9Arizona State University
Filings
202
Certified
65.3%
Median wage
$55,000
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 92%, Level III: 6%, Level IV: 2%
#10State University of New York, Upstate Medical Universitylast filed FY2019
Filings
201
Certified
72.1%
Median wage
$49,470
—
#11General Hospital Corporation
Filings
181
Certified
77.9%
Median wage
$75,275
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 40%, Level II: 31%, Level III: 12%, Level IV: 17%
#12Emory University
Filings
176
Certified
58.5%
Median wage
$65,801
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 66%, Level II: 12%, Level III: 18%, Level IV: 5%
#13University of Maryland Baltimore
Filings
175
Certified
69.1%
Median wage
$86,418
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 52%, Level II: 9%, Level III: 37%, Level IV: 3%
#14University of California, Los Angeles
Filings
169
Certified
85.8%
Median wage
$68,900
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 60%, Level II: 40%
#15The Broad Institute, Inc.
Filings
164
Certified
78.0%
Median wage
$75,502
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 84%, Level II: 7%, Level III: 7%, Level IV: 1%
#16ZIFO TECHNOLOGIES, INC
Filings
164
Certified
94.5%
Median wage
$84,752
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 60%, Level II: 27%, Level III: 9%, Level IV: 4%
#17UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAlast filed FY2019
Filings
155
Certified
97.4%
Median wage
$53,191
—
#18UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKlast filed FY2019
Filings
150
Certified
74.0%
Median wage
$75,000
—
#19Texas A&M AgriLife Research
Filings
148
Certified
67.6%
Median wage
$50,000
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 32%, Level II: 52%, Level III: 10%, Level IV: 6%
#20Texas A&M University
Filings
146
Certified
69.9%
Median wage
$57,000
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 36%, Level II: 41%, Level III: 21%, Level IV: 2%
#21Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Filings
145
Certified
95.9%
Median wage
$100,000
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 10%, Level II: 29%, Level III: 32%, Level IV: 29%
#22Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Filings
144
Certified
95.8%
Median wage
$79,332
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level II: 100%
#23New York University
Filings
144
Certified
81.9%
Median wage
$49,560
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 17%, Level II: 25%, Level III: 42%, Level IV: 17%
#24Kelly Services, Inc.
Filings
128
Certified
52.3%
Median wage
$68,266
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 39%, Level II: 48%, Level III: 13%
#25ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL
Filings
126
Certified
93.7%
Median wage
$86,732
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 25%, Level II: 27%, Level III: 9%, Level IV: 39%
#26UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEElast filed FY2019
Filings
121
Certified
75.2%
Median wage
$54,998
—
#27Georgia State University
Filings
118
Certified
61.9%
Median wage
$51,000
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 100%
#28Google LLC
Filings
118
Certified
97.5%
Median wage
$169,500
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 19%, Level II: 45%, Level III: 28%, Level IV: 7%
#29University of Arizona
Filings
115
Certified
67.0%
Median wage
$50,000
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 25%, Level II: 38%, Level III: 31%, Level IV: 6%
#30PPD Development, L.P.
Filings
112
Certified
94.6%
Median wage
$90,000
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 3%, Level II: 45%, Level III: 24%, Level IV: 28%
#31University of Houston
Filings
102
Certified
68.6%
Median wage
$45,000
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 100%
#32Regents of the University of Minnesota
Filings
98
Certified
62.2%
Median wage
$72,100
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 43%, Level II: 35%, Level III: 18%, Level IV: 4%
#33The Ohio State University
Filings
97
Certified
81.4%
Median wage
$63,797
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 54%, Level II: 30%, Level III: 11%, Level IV: 4%
#34Washington University
Filings
97
Certified
82.5%
Median wage
$63,000
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 67%, Level II: 30%, Level III: 2%
#35The University of Chicago
Filings
96
Certified
72.9%
Median wage
$80,800
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 30%, Level II: 48%, Level III: 11%, Level IV: 11%
#36CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY/JET PROPULSION LABORATORYlast filed FY2019
Filings
95
Certified
60.0%
Median wage
$61,984
—
#37Purdue University
Filings
94
Certified
59.6%
Median wage
$54,956
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 18%, Level II: 45%, Level III: 23%, Level IV: 14%
#38University of Notre Dame du Laclast filed FY2019
Filings
91
Certified
86.8%
Median wage
$40,373
—
#39The University of San Franciscolast filed FY2019
Filings
87
Certified
87.4%
Median wage
$67,800
—
#40University of Hawaii
Filings
87
Certified
74.7%
Median wage
$80,271
—
#41Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Filings
85
Certified
95.3%
Median wage
$82,867
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 15%, Level II: 80%, Level III: 6%
#42University of California, Berkeley
Filings
85
Certified
78.8%
Median wage
$76,650
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 100%
#43Illumina, Inc.
Filings
84
Certified
72.6%
Median wage
$92,581
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level II: 23%, Level III: 50%, Level IV: 27%
#44University of Massachusetts Amherst
Filings
81
Certified
71.6%
Median wage
$70,344
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 72%, Level II: 28%
#45Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc.
Filings
79
Certified
96.2%
Median wage
$44,725
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 78%, Level II: 22%
#46PFIZER INC.
Filings
78
Certified
69.2%
Median wage
$104,558
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level II: 69%, Level III: 23%, Level IV: 8%
#47University of Wisconsin System
Filings
77
Certified
35.1%
Median wage
$60,500
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 77%, Level II: 15%, Level III: 8%
#48Baylor College of Medicine
Filings
73
Certified
71.2%
Median wage
$64,550
—
#49Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Inc.
Filings
73
Certified
100.0%
Median wage
$113,464
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level II: 27%, Level III: 50%, Level IV: 23%
#50The Florida State University
Filings
73
Certified
60.3%
Median wage
$55,943
Prevailing-wage level mix — Level I: 60%, Level II: 30%, Level III: 10%

How the sponsor-health signal is calculated

The badge blends each sponsor’s DOL certification rate (weighted toward the last five fiscal years), its denial rate, and its recent filing volume. Withdrawn filings are not counted against a sponsor, because a withdrawal usually means the role was filled or dropped. Sponsors with too few or too old filings show “Limited data” rather than a score. It reflects DOL paperwork outcomes only — not USCIS approval, pay quality, or an endorsement. Full methodology.

Where else Biological Scientists is sponsored

Other states with enough Biological Scientists filings to publish a sponsor breakdown.

California21 Massachusetts12 New York14 Maryland5 Texas11 Florida5 Georgia5 Pennsylvania7 Indiana4 North Carolina3

Go deeper

Biological Scientists salary guide Search another role or state Top 100 H-1B sponsors

Understand the data

Definitions and methodology behind these H-1B figures.

What “certification rate” means What an LCA is (and isn’t)How the sponsor-health signal works Common H-1B sponsorship questions