27 certified · Median $158,000 a year · South San Francisco, CA
Counts are Labor Condition Applications (LCAs) employers filed with the US Department of Labor. Certified means DOL accepted the LCA, the step before a visa petition: it is not a visa or a hire. Wages are what the employer wrote on it. Data sources
By year
Fiscal year
Certified
Certified, then withdrawn
Withdrawn
Denied
FY2026October 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026
14
0
0
0
FY2025October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025
13
0
0
0
Every decision, by when it was made. From the US Department of Labor’s LCA disclosure files for FY2025 and FY2026, all listed in Data sources.
Wages
25th percentile
$133,000
Median
$158,000
75th percentile
$178,500
A year, from 27 certified full-time filings, the lower end of the wage offered.
Job titles
ScientistBioinformatics Scientists · median $156,0007
Senior ScientistBioinformatics Scientists · median $180,0003
Data Scientist, ProteomicsBioinformatics Scientists · median $120,0002
Postdoctoral Fellow, Computational GenomicsBioinformatics Scientists · median $95,0002
Associate Director, Medical Safety/ScienceClinical Research Coordinators · median $225,0001
Computational BiologistBioinformatics Scientists · median $176,0001
Data ScientistBioengineers and Biomedical Engineers · median $142,0001
EngineerBiochemists and Biophysicists · median $160,0001
Engineer 3Bioinformatics Scientists · median $198,0001
Machine Learning Staff EngineerBioinformatics Scientists · median $282,0001
Certified filings by job title, with the occupation (SOC) and the median wage.