H-1B job title salary

Staff Data Scientist

#250 most-filed title 239 certified LCAs filed under 8 occupations

Median salary

$183,581

Half earn more, half less

Middle 50%

$171,337 – $214,000

P25 to P75

Change vs prior year

+5.97%

+2.75% after inflation

Share of all H-1B

239 filings

Staff Data Scientist pay range

Annual base pay in certified H-1B filings for this title, all occupations combined.

P10$148,577

P25$171,337

Median$183,581

P75$214,000

P90$245,000

Median by H-1B wage level

Level II$148,66312 LCAs

Level III$188,00079 LCAs

Level IV$188,88594 LCAs

Level I is entry level, Level IV fully experienced (Department of Labor prevailing-wage levels).

Type in either box; the other updates instantly.

Hourly rate Annual salary

Monthly—

Every 2 weeks—

Weekly—

Daily—

Based on hrs/week × weeks/year = 2,080 hrs

SOC split

Employers file the same title under different SOC occupation codes, and pay differs between them. Each row is computed only within its SOC.

Data Scientists 80%Operations Research Analysts 10%Statisticians 6%

Occupation (SOC)	Share	LCAs	P25	Median	P75
Data Scientists 15-2051	80.33%	192	$171,337	$187,570	$215,000
Operations Research Analysts 15-2031	10.04%	24	$172,432	$180,508	$180,508
Statisticians 15-2041	5.86%	14	$119,324	$153,500	$190,190

Occupations with fewer than 5 filings for this title are not shown.

What the biggest sponsors pay for this title, compared with the median of all sponsors filing the same title in the same occupation.

Employer	LCAs	Median	vs all sponsors
Wal Mart Associates SOC 15-2051 · Data Scientists	68	$171,754	-8.4%
Intuit SOC 15-2031 · Operations Research Analysts	21	$180,508	+0%
Intuit SOC 15-2051 · Data Scientists	14	$203,276	+8.4%
Paypal SOC 15-2051 · Data Scientists	8	$225,000	+20%
Coupang Global SOC 15-2051 · Data Scientists	7	$191,640	+2.2%
Linkedin SOC 15-2051 · Data Scientists	7	$202,790	+8.1%
Ge Precision Healthcare SOC 15-2051 · Data Scientists	5	$204,900	+9.2%
Google SOC 15-2051 · Data Scientists	5	$259,000	+38.1%

The most common versions of this title as employers wrote them (after removing job codes and typos), with their own medians.