Biochemists and Biophysicists
SOC Code: 19-1021.00
The DOL disclosure extract lists 12,362 H-1B LCA filings for Biochemists and Biophysicists from 1,040 employer filers, with a 97.6% DOL certification rate and an average listed offered wage of $83,779. The highest-volume worksite state is CA with 2,823 filings. The highest-volume filer is University of California, San Francisco. These filings are not USCIS petition approvals or visa outcomes.
LCA filing profile: Biochemists and Biophysicists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-1021.00, the extract lists 12,362 Labor Condition Application filings from 1,040 distinct employer filers. The DOL certified 97.6% of those filings, a DOL record status for the wage and working-condition attestations. Filing volume does not establish that a role qualifies for H-1B, that a USCIS petition was filed or approved, or that anyone was hired.
Where this occupation sits in the corpus. By disclosed LCA volume, Biochemists and Biophysicists ranks #27 of 1,219 occupational codes in the current PlainVisa dataset, placing it in the top 3% by filings. This is a corpus-relative rank computed from the same FY2023–FY2026 DOL disclosure snapshot as this profile, not a measure of job quality, worker demand, or visa approval odds.
Where LCA filings are recorded for Biochemists and Biophysicists. The highest-volume employer filer is University of California, San Francisco with 696 filings at an average listed offered wage of $79,871, followed by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Duke University, University of California, San Diego. Geographically, CA leads with 2,823 filings (average listed wage $92,480), followed by MA, TX, TN. These distributions describe DOL filing records only; they do not measure labor-market demand, confirmed sponsorship, hiring, or visa outcomes.
Top Employers for Biochemists and Biophysicists
Employer filers with the most listed LCAs for this occupation
| Employer | LCA filings | Avg. Salary |
|---|---|---|
| University of California, San Francisco | 696 | $79,871 |
| St. Jude Children's Research Hospital | 673 | $76,262 |
| Duke University | 371 | $68,518 |
| University of California, San Diego | 341 | $75,230 |
| The University of Texas M.d. Anderson Cancer Center | 326 | $72,682 |
| The Leland Stanford, Jr University | 290 | $82,122 |
| General Hospital Corporation | 248 | $65,966 |
| National Institutes of Health, HHS | 215 | $102,407 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 207 | $82,847 |
| Howard Hughes Medical Institute | 201 | $81,332 |
| Yale University | 168 | $70,418 |
| Brigham and Women's Hospital | 164 | $66,123 |
| Northwestern University | 158 | $71,665 |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine | 147 | $73,879 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | 143 | $75,183 |
| Johns Hopkins University | 134 | $68,929 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 134 | $67,087 |
| Baylor College of Medicine | 122 | $67,076 |
| Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 114 | $132,600 |
| Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis | 107 | $64,602 |
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