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Associate Scientist in Menlo Park, CA

Job title · Menlo Park, California

Job title as filed
Associate Scientist
City
Menlo Park, California
Applications FY2022–FY2026
39
Median offered wage
$102,000
Most common occupation
Physicists
Median wage$102,000certified 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 "Associate Scientist" and a worksite in Menlo Park.

Applications by fiscal year

714FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
714FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
Data table
FY20228
FY202314
FY20246
FY20258
FY2026*3
Certified (decided applications)
100.0%
Employers filing
3
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. The Leland Stanford, Jr University37
  2. Talis Biomedical Corporation1
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 $102,000; middle half $95,800 to $118,000 · median prevailing wage $79,914 (marker) · 39 applications.

$80k$95k$110k$125k$140k
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Prevailing wage level
  1. Level I14
  2. Level II22
  3. Level III1
  4. Level IV2
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 "Associate Scientist" appears on 766 labor condition applications since FY2022, filed by 239 employers for worksites in 126 cities; the median offered wage is $85,116, so the median in Menlo Park is 19.8% above it.

Applications nationwide, FY2022–FY2026
766
Employers nationwide
239
Cities with filings
126
National median offered wage
$85,116
Share of national filings in Menlo Park
5.1%
Cities with the most applications for Associate Scientist
  1. Cambridge, MA78
  2. New York City, NY71
  3. Batavia, IL71
  4. Philadelphia, PA52
  5. Menlo Park, CA39
  6. Memphis, TN36
  7. Tarrytown, NY28
  8. Cranbury, NJ21
  9. Redwood City, CA17
  10. South San Francisco, CA16
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

The Menlo Park job market

Menlo Park has 15,692 H-1B and E-3 labor condition applications since FY2022 across 2,011 job titles and 642 employers; "Associate Scientist" ranks #28 by applications, with 0.2% of them.

Applications in Menlo Park, all job titles
15,692
Job titles filed
2,011
Rank of Associate Scientist in Menlo Park
28
Median offered wage in Menlo Park, all job titles
$190,000
National median wage, Physicists (all job titles)
$82,000
Other job titles in Menlo Park
  1. Software Engineer6,399
  2. Research Scientist956
  3. Data Scientist698
  4. Data Engineer535
  5. Production Engineer404
  6. Product Manager321
  7. Software Engineering Manager306
  8. Senior Software Engineer242
  9. Associate175
  10. Product Designer142
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

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