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Companies hiring Astronomers: 494 certified H-1B and PERM cases, FY2023 to FY2026
82 employers had 494 certified H-1B and PERM cases for Astronomers (occupation code 19-2011) across 33 states, decided through June 26, 2026; the median offered wage is $81,862 a year.
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- 19-2011Occupation code (SOC)
Certified cases by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Cases |
|---|
| FY2023 | 129 |
| FY2024 | 129 |
| FY2025 | 113 |
| FY2026 | 123 |
By state
| State | Cases | Employers | Median offered |
|---|
| California | 85 | 18 | $90,000 |
| Maryland | 71 | 7 | $86,537 |
| Massachusetts | 40 | 5 | $76,600 |
| Hawaii | 38 | 4 | $85,693 |
| Illinois | 36 | 5 | $73,615 |
| Colorado | 32 | 5 | $94,500 |
| New York | 27 | 9 | $82,500 |
| Arizona | 26 | 5 | $77,698 |
| New Mexico | 20 | 5 | $83,491 |
| Michigan | 18 | 2 | $78,644 |
| Virginia | 12 | 2 | $93,695 |
| Texas | 11 | 4 | $70,000 |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | 4 | $72,500 |
| Florida | 9 | 1 | $93,500 |
| New Jersey | 9 | 2 | $75,000 |
| Washington | 7 | 1 | $76,491 |
| Delaware | 6 | 1 | $66,044 |
| District of Columbia | 6 | 2 | $95,760 |
| Alabama | 5 | 1 | $83,000 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | 1 | $63,800 |
| Ohio | 3 | 1 | $67,275 |
| Wyoming | 3 | 1 | $65,000 |
| Oklahoma | 2 | 2 | $63,525 |
| Indiana | 2 | 2 | $81,620 |
| West Virginia | 2 | 1 | $81,099 |
| South Carolina | 1 | 1 | $63,565 |
| Nevada | 1 | 1 | $65,000 |
| North Carolina | 1 | 1 | $74,500 |
| Iowa | 1 | 1 | $71,205 |
| Kentucky | 1 | 1 | $74,091 |
| New Hampshire | 1 | 1 | $61,615 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1 | $79,500 |
| Minnesota | 1 | 1 | $61,000 |
Employers with the most cases
| Employer | Address | Cases |
|---|
| Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy | Tucson, AZ | 48 |
| University of Maryland College Park | College Park, MD | 24 |
| National Radio Astronomy Observatory | Charlottesville, VA | 24 |
| California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | 24 |
| Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii | Honolulu, HI | 19 |
| University of Colorado | Boulder, CO | 19 |
| The University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | 18 |
| University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | 16 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | 16 |
| The University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ | 15 |
| University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | 14 |
| The Leland Stanford, Jr University | Stanford, CA | 10 |
| Smithsonian Institution | Washington, DC | 9 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | 9 |
| Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | 9 |
| University Of Central Florida | Orlando, FL | 9 |
| University of California, Santa Cruz | Santa Cruz, CA | 9 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | 8 |
| Simons Foundation | New York, NY | 8 |
| Southwest Research Institute | San Antonio, TX | 8 |
| University Of Delaware | Newark, DE | 7 |
| SETI Institute | Mountain View, CA | 7 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | 7 |
| Universities Space Research Association | Washington, DC | 7 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | 7 |
| The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | 6 |
| University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | 6 |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | 6 |
| Columbia University | New York, NY | 5 |
| Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | 5 |
| University of Hawaii | Honolulu, HI | 5 |
| Arizona State University | Tempe, AZ | 5 |
| University of Wisconsin System | Madison, WI | 5 |
| George Mason University | Fairfax, VA | 5 |
| Trustees Of Boston University | Boston, MA | 4 |
| American University | Washington, DC | 4 |
| Georgia State University | Atlanta, GA | 4 |
| New York University | New York, NY | 4 |
| Triad National Security, LLC | Los Alamos, NM | 4 |
| The Catholic University of America | Washington, DC | 4 |
| New Mexico State University | Las Cruces, NM | 3 |
| University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School | Shrewsbury, MA | 3 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | 3 |
| University of California, Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | 3 |
| University of Wyoming | Laramie, WY | 3 |
| Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, NJ | 3 |
| University Of California, San Diego | La Jolla, CA | 3 |
| California Association for Research in Astronomy | Kamuela, HI | 3 |
| Carnegie Institution of Washington d/b/a Carnegie Institution for Science | Washington, DC | 2 |
| Villanova University | Villanova, PA | 2 |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | Rochester, NY | 2 |
| Bay Area Environmental Research Institute | Moffett Field, CA | 2 |
| Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC | Batavia, IL | 2 |
| University Corporation for Atmospheric Research | Boulder, CO | 2 |
| Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | 2 |
| UChicago Argonne LLC | Lemont, IL | 2 |
| The University of Virginia | Charlottesville, VA | 2 |
| University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | 2 |
| American Museum of Natural History | New York, NY | 2 |
| W.M. Rice University | Houston, TX | 2 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | 2 |
| Clemson University | Clemson, SC | 1 |
| University of Nevada, Las Vegas | Reno, NV | 1 |
| University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | 1 |
| Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy | Marina, CA | 1 |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Troy, NY | 1 |
| Iowa State University of Science and Technology | Ames, IA | 1 |
| University of Rochester | Rochester, NY | 1 |
| University of California at Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA | 1 |
| University of Oklahoma | Norman, OK | 1 |
| Indiana University | Indianapolis, IN | 1 |
| California State University, Northridge | Northridge, CA | 1 |
| New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology | Socorro, NM | 1 |
| TMT International Observatory, LLC | Pasadena, CA | 1 |
| University Of Kentucky | Lexington, KY | 1 |
| Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC | Livermore, CA | 1 |
| Trustees of Dartmouth College | Hanover, NH | 1 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA | 1 |
| Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network | Goleta, CA | 1 |
| The Pennsylvania State University | University Park, PA | 1 |
| Research Foundation of CUNY | New York, NY | 1 |
| Lowell Observatory | Flagstaff, AZ | 1 |
Updated June 26, 2026. Read from US Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification. Public domain (U.S. government work). A certified labor condition application (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3) or PERM labor certification is an employer filing the Department of Labor approved. It is not a count of people hired or visas issued. Wages are as the employer filed them, converted to a yearly figure at 2,080 hours; a wage whose unit is missing is left blank. The files show the first worksite of a case. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.