Biological Scientists, All Other
SOC Code: 19-1029.00
The DOL disclosure extract lists 4,277 H-1B LCA filings for Biological Scientists, All Other from 619 employer filers, with a 97.1% DOL certification rate and an average listed offered wage of $80,958. The highest-volume worksite state is MA with 1,418 filings. The highest-volume filer is Harvard University. These filings are not USCIS petition approvals or visa outcomes.
LCA filing profile: Biological Scientists, All Other. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-1029.00, the extract lists 4,277 Labor Condition Application filings from 619 distinct employer filers. The DOL certified 97.1% 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, Biological Scientists, All Other ranks #65 of 1,219 occupational codes in the current PlainVisa dataset, placing it in the top 6% 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 Biological Scientists, All Other. The highest-volume employer filer is Harvard University with 304 filings at an average listed offered wage of $74,204, followed by Children's Hospital Corporation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. Geographically, MA leads with 1,418 filings (average listed wage $78,533), followed by CA, NY, TX. These distributions describe DOL filing records only; they do not measure labor-market demand, confirmed sponsorship, hiring, or visa outcomes.
Top Employers for Biological Scientists, All Other
Employer filers with the most listed LCAs for this occupation
| Employer | LCA filings | Avg. Salary |
|---|---|---|
| Harvard University | 304 | $74,204 |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | 276 | $77,085 |
| Howard Hughes Medical Institute | 255 | $84,369 |
| University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School | 252 | $72,101 |
| University of Connecticut Health Center | 134 | $69,006 |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | 109 | $66,145 |
| St. Jude Children's Research Hospital | 91 | $99,357 |
| University of California, Davis | 84 | $74,483 |
| University of Florida | 67 | $64,397 |
| The Scripps Research Institute | 63 | $78,794 |
| University of Nebraska Medical Center | 56 | $65,097 |
| Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Inc. | 55 | $94,145 |
| University of Maryland Baltimore | 52 | $66,266 |
| Seattle Children's Hospital | 51 | $75,641 |
| Texas A&M University | 50 | $81,918 |
| Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | 49 | $74,874 |
| The Henry M. Jackson Foundation | 46 | $90,170 |
| University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center | 46 | $65,221 |
| The Broad Institute, Inc. | 42 | $87,662 |
| The University of Virginia | 40 | $69,521 |
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