Life, Physical & Social Sciences

Materials Scientists

SOC Code: 19-2032

Explore H1B visa sponsorship data for Materials Scientists positions. View salary ranges, top employers, and geographic distribution from 813 H1B filings (FY2022-2025).

Total Employers

324 Sponsoring this role

H1B Filings

813 Total filings

Median Salary

$90,000 P50 across all filings

Salary Range

$58,000 - $137,239 P10 to P90

Top States for Materials Scientists

California

125

Texas

Tennessee

Illinois

Massachusetts

New York

Pennsylvania

Michigan

Top Employers

1 UT-Battelle - Oak Ridge National Laboratory

54 filings

2 The Dow Chemical

35 filings

3 Northwestern University

18 filings

4 UChicago Argonne

18 filings

5 Iowa State University of Science and Technology

17 filings

6 The Pennsylvania State University

16 filings

7 Battelle Memorial Institute

15 filings

8 Brookhaven National Laboratory

13 filings

+ 42 more employers below

All Materials Scientists H1B Sponsors

Employer	Location	Role Filings	Avg Salary	Approval Rate
UT-Battelle - Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Oak Ridge, TN	54	$103,715	100.0%
The Dow Chemical	Midland, MI	35	$126,182	100.0%
Northwestern University	Evanston, IL	18	$68,517	100.0%
UChicago Argonne	Argonne, IL	18	$127,097	100.0%
Iowa State University of Science and Technology	Ames, IA	17	$70,918	100.0%
The Pennsylvania State University	University Park, PA	16	$64,186	100.0%
Battelle Memorial Institute	Columbus, OH	15	$102,052	100.0%
Brookhaven National Laboratory	Upton, NY	13	$87,886	100.0%
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Berkeley, CA	13	$97,443	100.0%
University of Wisconsin System	Madison, WI	12	$62,099	100.0%
Alliance for Sustainable Energy	Golden, CO	11	$90,891	100.0%
Triad National Security	Los Alamos, NM	11	$118,906	100.0%
Battelle Energy Alliance	Idaho Falls, ID	10	$116,838	100.0%
Lawrence Livermore National Security	Livermore, CA	10	$127,367	100.0%
University of Connecticut	Storrs, CT	9	$69,872	100.0%
University of Illinois	Champaign, IL	9	$52,496	100.0%
University of Maryland College Park	College Park, MD	9	$62,890	100.0%
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station	College Station, TX	8	$59,875	100.0%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge, MA	8	$70,480	100.0%
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford, Jr. University	Stanford, CA	8	$72,413	100.0%
University of South Carolina	Columbia, SC	8	$54,927	100.0%
The University of Texas at Austin	Austin, TX	7	$64,709	100.0%
Quantumscape Battery	San Jose, CA	6	$154,208	100.0%
Georgia Institute of Technology	Atlanta, GA	6	$76,946	100.0%
Micron Technology	Boise, ID	6	$124,833	100.0%
North Carolina State University	Raleigh, NC	5	$58,991	98.2%
NTESS	Livermore, CA	5	$127,040	100.0%
AFE	Mt. Pleasant, WI	5	$98,305	100.0%
Underwriters Laboratories	Northbrook, IL	5	$102,400	100.0%
Johns Hopkins University	Baltimore, MD	5	$77,200	100.0%
Thermo Fisher Scientific	Minneapolis, MN	5	$107,980	100.0%
Western Digital Technologies	Lake Forest, CA	5	$150,739	100.0%
William Marsh Rice University	Houston, TX	5	$77,898	100.0%
University of Michigan	Ann Arbor, MI	5	$71,900	100.0%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill, NC	5	$77,441	100.0%
Applied Materials	Santa Clara, CA	5	$167,691	100.0%
University of California at Santa Barbara	Santa Barbara, CA	5	$70,528	100.0%
University of Washington	Seattle, WA	5	$79,914	100.0%
University of California, San Diego	LA Jolla, CA	4	$83,606	100.0%
The University of Tennessee	Knoxville, TN	4	$72,302	100.0%
University of Oklahoma	Norman, OK	4	$48,500	100.0%
Corning Research & Development	Corning, NY	4	$114,261	100.0%
University of California, Irvine	Irvine, CA	4	$68,932	100.0%
University of Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh, PA	4	$72,125	100.0%
Cornell University	Ithaca, NY	4	$66,500	95.7%
Brewer Science	Rolla, MO	4	$89,133	100.0%
The Curators of the University of Missouri	Columbia, MO	4	$59,309	100.0%
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia, PA	4	$67,083	100.0%
The University of Arizona	Tucson, AZ	4	$61,479	100.0%
E Ink	Cambridge, MA	3	$117,845	100.0%

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About H1B Sponsorship for Materials Scientists

Materials Scientists positions (SOC 19-2032) are actively sponsored under the H1B visa program. Currently, 324 employers sponsor this role. The median salary for H1B-sponsored Materials Scientists positions is $90,000.

The data shown on this page comes from official U.S. Department of Labor LCA (Labor Condition Application) disclosure files. These represent positions where employers have filed for H1B sponsorship, providing insights into salary benchmarks and hiring patterns.

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