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Assistant Researcher in San Francisco, CA

Job title · San Francisco, California

Job title as filed
Assistant Researcher
City
San Francisco, California
Applications FY2022–FY2026
51
Median offered wage
$88,400
Most common occupation
Biochemists and Biophysicists
Median wage$88,400certified LCAs
Year by year
Data as at 30 Jun 2026
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Applications year by year

Labor condition applications with the job title "Assistant Researcher" and a worksite in San Francisco.

Applications by fiscal year

918FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
918FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
Data table
FY20228
FY202318
FY202411
FY20259
FY2026*5
Certified (decided applications)
100.0%
Employers filing
1
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

Employers

Employers filing for this title in this city.

Applications by employer
  1. University of California, San Francisco51
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

Pay

Offered annual wage on certified applications, FY2022–FY2026.

Offered annual wage, 10th to 90th percentile (certified LCAs)

Median $88,400; middle half $87,100 to $94,700 · median prevailing wage $87,100 (marker) · 49 applications.

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Prevailing wage level
  1. Level I2
  2. Level II1
  3. Level III2
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

Across the United States

Nationwide, the job title "Assistant Researcher" appears on 151 labor condition applications since FY2022, filed by 13 employers for worksites in 14 cities; the median offered wage is $93,200, so the median in San Francisco is 5.2% below it.

Applications nationwide, FY2022–FY2026
151
Employers nationwide
13
Cities with filings
14
National median offered wage
$93,200
Share of national filings in San Francisco
33.8%
Cities with the most applications for Assistant Researcher
  1. San Francisco, CA51
  2. Los Angeles, CA32
  3. Berkeley, CA21
  4. Honolulu, HI13
  5. Davis, CA12
  6. Irvine, CA5
  7. Santa Cruz, CA4
  8. Madison, WI3
  9. Riverside, CA3
  10. Santa Barbara, CA2
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

The San Francisco job market

San Francisco has 62,593 H-1B and E-3 labor condition applications since FY2022 across 16,467 job titles and 6,403 employers; "Assistant Researcher" ranks #118 by applications, with 0.1% of them.

Applications in San Francisco, all job titles
62,593
Job titles filed
16,467
Rank of Assistant Researcher in San Francisco
118
Median offered wage in San Francisco, all job titles
$167,000
National median wage, Biochemists and Biophysicists (all job titles)
$72,928
Other job titles in San Francisco
  1. Software Engineer5,831
  2. Senior Software Engineer2,179
  3. Associate727
  4. Staff Software Engineer723
  5. Software Engineering Smts719
  6. Data Scientist702
  7. Product Manager678
  8. Postdoctoral Scholar642
  9. Engineering Manager520
  10. Member of Technical Staff517
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

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