201 certified · Median $93,057 a year · Portland, OR
Also filed as OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY
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Certified, then withdrawn
Withdrawn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
84
6
0
0
FY2025October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025
117
18
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
$80,626
Median
$93,057
75th percentile
$158,414
A year, from 187 certified full-time filings, the lower end of the wage offered.
Job titles
Postdoctoral ScholarBiochemists and Biophysicists · median $72,94929
Resident PhysicianPhysicians, All Other · median $80,74328
Assistant ProfessorAnesthesiologists · median $362,02725
Fellow PhysicianPhysicians, All Other · median $92,67518
Senior Research AssociateMolecular and Cellular Biologists · median $88,09312
Staff ScientistBiochemists and Biophysicists · median $99,7507
Assistant Staff ScientistNatural Sciences Managers · median $88,2855
Clinical AssociateHospitalists · median $306,9075
Research Assistant ProfessorBiochemists and Biophysicists · median $89,8924
Computational Biologist 1Bioinformatics Scientists · median $74,6023
Certified filings by job title, with the occupation (SOC) and the median wage.