2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Offered base salaries from 197 certified H-1B filings, across 19 roles in 17 metro areas.

DOL LCA disclosures · FY 2025 Certified, full-time filings only
Table 1 — The median offer

Half of Thermo Fisher Scientific's certified filings offered $114,483 or more.

The middle half of offers fell between $98,218 and $134,534. Offered base salary excludes equity and bonus — read every figure on this page as a floor on total pay, not an average.

Table 2 — Roles

What they hire for

Offered base salary by occupation, nationwide, ordered by filing volume.

RoleMedian offerRangeFilings
Software Developers$131,581$88k – $200k49
Data Scientists$103,750$78k – $131k19
Industrial Engineers$98,925$71k – $167k15
Chemists$96,139$70k – $117k14
Biological Scientists, All Other$115,149$70k – $140k13
Computer Occupations, All Other$115,627$53k – $140k9
Computer and Information Systems Managers$190,000$127k – $201k8
Marketing Managers$150,384$111k – $168k5
Project Management Specialists$115,000$80k – $119k5
Materials Scientists$89,107$89k – $119k5
Table 3 — Metro areas

Where they hire

The same filings by worksite metro area.

Metro areaMedian offerRangeFilings
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA$126,880$53k – $200k23
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$140,000$75k – $201k20
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$115,000$64k – $178k18
Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX$108,826$82k – $156k13
Pittsburgh, PA$113,069$65k – $134k13
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX$118,456$96k – $150k12
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA$116,000$98k – $167k10
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ$106,454$81k – $155k9
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA$100,000$81k – $171k8
Greenville, NC$98,259$74k – $190k6
Table 4 — Against the market

Offers beside the local going rate

Each row compares Thermo Fisher Scientific's median offer with the median for everyone in that occupation and metro, from federal wage statistics.

Role — MetroMedian offerFilingsvs. market
Software Developers — Austin$114,7548−14.4%
Software Developers — Pittsburgh$131,5816+5.7%
Software Developers — San Diego$157,5816−3.5%
Data Scientists — San Diego$103,9586−20.6%
Sources

How this page was made

Employer pay
US Department of Labor, Labor Condition Application disclosures, FY 2025. Public records.
Coverage
197 certified full-time H-1B filings. Groups under 3 filings are excluded throughout.
Market comparison
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics.

Filings state the offered base salary at time of application; equity and bonus are not recorded, and visa-sponsored hiring skews toward larger employers and technical roles — this page describes Thermo Fisher Scientific's visa filings, not its whole workforce. Employer names are normalised from filing entities, so figures cover the filing entity named above. We take no payment from employers for how any figure is presented, and corrections are welcome at press@salaryalmanac.com.