Salaries / Physicists / New York
Physicists salaries in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
Auto-summary H-1B filings: DOL disclosure data
Employers filed 214 certified H-1B applications for physicists in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ area (July 2025 to June 2026), from 18 employers.
The middle half of offers were $82,500 to $133,000 a year, with a median of $93,500: 5% above the national median for this job ($89,000).
The most common wage level was Level I (38% 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) | 38% | — |
| Level II (qualified) | 22% | — |
| Level III (experienced) | 35% | — |
| Level IV (fully competent) | 5% | — |
We don't carry prevailing wages for this occupation yet; the DOL wage search has them.
Who sponsors physicists here
| Employer | H-1B filings | Median offer | Green card filings (PERM, this job, US) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brookhaven National Laboratory | 154 | $123,500 | — |
| The Simons Foundation Inc. | 14 | $91,000 | — |
| Columbia University | 13 | $79,000 | — |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | 7 | $210,000 | 3 |
| Research Foundation of CUNY | 6 | $77,500 | — |
| New Jersey Institute of Technology | 4 | $71,500 | — |
| Research Foundation for the State University of New York | 3 | $80,000 | — |
| Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | 2 | $80,500 | — |
| precess medical drivativess | 2 | $108,000 | — |
| The Research Foundation for SUNY Old Westbury | 1 | $68,000 | — |
| Kent State University | 1 | $71,500 | — |
| precess medical derivatives | 1 | — | 1 |
| AHS Hospital Corp. | 1 | $230,000 | — |
| NYU Grossman School of Medicine | 1 | $80,000 | — |
| New York University | 1 | $71,500 | — |
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Common titles filed under this occupation: Medical Physicist, Research Scientist, Research Staff 3 Physics, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Postdoctoral Associate, Research Associate Physics, Research Associate, Postdoctoral Fellow.
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.