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Associate Specialist in Irvine, CA

Job title · Irvine, California

Job title as filed
Associate Specialist
City
Irvine, California
Applications FY2022–FY2026
31
Median offered wage
$73,900
Most common occupation
Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists
Median wage$73,900certified 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 Specialist" and a worksite in Irvine.

Applications by fiscal year

59FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
59FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
Data table
FY20225
FY20239
FY20244
FY20257
FY2026*6
Certified (decided applications)
100.0%
Employers filing
1

Employers

Employers filing for this title in this city.

Applications by employer
  1. University of California, Irvine31

Pay

Offered annual wage on certified applications, FY2022–FY2026.

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

Median $73,900; middle half $70,500 to $78,500 · median prevailing wage $73,900 (marker) · 31 applications.

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Across the United States

Nationwide, the job title "Associate Specialist" appears on 302 labor condition applications since FY2022, filed by 15 employers for worksites in 18 cities; the median offered wage is $76,500, so the median in Irvine is 3.4% below it.

Applications nationwide, FY2022–FY2026
302
Employers nationwide
15
Cities with filings
18
National median offered wage
$76,500
Share of national filings in Irvine
10.3%
Cities with the most applications for Associate Specialist
  1. San Francisco, CA198
  2. Irvine, CA31
  3. Santa Barbara, CA14
  4. Davis, CA12
  5. Riverside, CA11
  6. Berkeley, CA8
  7. Merced, CA4
  8. Salinas, CA4
  9. Rancho Santa Margarita, CA3
  10. Modesto, CA3

The Irvine job market

Irvine has 14,414 H-1B and E-3 labor condition applications since FY2022 across 5,387 job titles and 2,651 employers; "Associate Specialist" ranks #41 by applications, with 0.2% of them.

Applications in Irvine, all job titles
14,414
Job titles filed
5,387
Rank of Associate Specialist in Irvine
41
Median offered wage in Irvine, all job titles
$120,000
National median wage, Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists (all job titles)
$70,762
Other job titles in Irvine
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  2. Software Developer367
  3. Software Development Engineer II183
  4. Senior Software Engineer159
  5. Software Development Engineer I136
  6. Postdoctoral Scholar105
  7. Assistant Project Scientist93
  8. Assistant Professor90
  9. Design Engineer89
  10. Business Analyst84