Salaries / Biochemists And Biophysicists / New York
Biochemists And Biophysicists salaries in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
Auto-summary H-1B filings: DOL disclosure data
Employers filed 203 certified H-1B applications for biochemists and biophysicists in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ area (July 2025 to June 2026), from 39 employers.
The middle half of offers were $75,000 to $121,500 a year, with a median of $90,000: 13% above the national median for this job ($79,500).
The most common wage level was Level II (60% of filings).
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Wage levels
DOL sets four wage levels by experience. The share of filings at each level, and the minimum the employer must pay for that level here.
| Level | Share of filings | Prevailing wage (minimum) |
|---|---|---|
| Level I (entry) | 29% | — |
| Level II (qualified) | 60% | — |
| Level III (experienced) | 4% | — |
| Level IV (fully competent) | 7% | — |
We don't carry prevailing wages for this occupation yet; the DOL wage search has them.
Who sponsors biochemists and biophysicists here
| Employer | H-1B filings | Median offer | Green card filings (PERM, this job, US) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 55 | $141,000 | — |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine | 35 | $75,000 | — |
| Weill Cornell Medical College | 19 | $80,000 | — |
| Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC | 12 | $117,000 | — |
| Howard Hughes Medical Institute | 9 | $84,500 | — |
| Research Foundation for the State University of New York | 9 | $63,000 | — |
| New York University | 8 | $67,000 | — |
| NYU Grossman School of Medicine | 7 | $79,500 | — |
| Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | 5 | $71,000 | — |
| Columbia University | 4 | $81,000 | — |
| Brookhaven National Laboratory | 4 | $75,500 | — |
| WuXi Biologics USA, LLC | 4 | $132,500 | — |
| The Jackson Laboratory | 3 | $65,500 | — |
| Research Foundation of CUNY | 2 | $76,000 | — |
| The Rockefeller University | 2 | $76,000 | — |
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Common titles filed under this occupation: Research Associate, Research Scientist, Postdoctoral Scholar, Postdoctoral Fellow, Postdoctoral Associate, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Scientist, Staff Scientist.
About this data
Offers are the wages employers put on certified Labor Condition Applications (LCAs) for H-1B workers: Certified H-1B LCAs decided July 2025 to June 2026. An LCA is filed before a petition, so not every filing became a job, and pay excludes bonus and stock. Annual pay; hourly offers are multiplied by 2,080. Pages appear only where there were at least 100 filings. Source: DOL disclosure data and OFLC wage data. Not legal or financial advice.