Employer profile
Merck Sharp Dohme
189 certified H-1B filings across 7 fiscal years.
Snapshot year
FY2025 filings
23
FY2025 median
$140k
Top role
Senior Scientist, Statistical Programming
20 filings · all-time
Top state
NJ
97 filings · all-time
Pay distribution
How Merck Sharp Dohme pays, by fiscal year
Each box is the p25–p75 interquartile range; the heavy line is the median and the whiskers reach p10–p90. Base salary only — hover a year for its figures.
Year-over-year
How Merck Sharp Dohme hired across H-1B fiscal years. The small figure under each filings count is its change vs the prior FY.
| FY | Filings | Median $ |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | 16▼ 30% | $130k |
| FY2025 | 23▼ 30% | $140k |
| FY2024 | 33▼ 20% | $136k |
| FY2023 | 41▲ 52% | $108k |
| FY2022 | 27▼ 4% | $119k |
| FY2021 | 28▲ 33% | $94k |
| FY2020 | 21— | $98k |
Prevailing wage level distribution
DOL Levels I–IV approximate experience tiers (I = entry, IV = fully competent). A heavy Level I/II skew suggests entry-level / contractor-style hiring; a heavy IV skew suggests senior in-house roles.
Lvl I
105%
Lvl II
8042%
Lvl III
6534%
Lvl IV
3418%
Top job titles
Most-filed positions, across all years (raw DOL titles).
| Job Title | Filings | Median |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Scientist, Statistical Programming | 20 | $108k |
| Associate Principal Scientist, Statistical Programming | 11 | $136k |
| Associate Principal Scientist, Biostatistics | 8 | $126k |
| Senior Specialist, Data Science | 5 | $127k |
| Associate Director, Technical Product Management | 5 | $143k |
| Senior Scientist, Chemistry | 5 | $115k |
| Senior Scientist, Biostatistics | 4 | $108k |
| Associate Scientist, Post Doc Fellow | 4 | $76k |
| Associate Director, Data Science | 3 | $143k |
| Associate Principal Scientist, Chemistry | 3 | $144k |
Top worksite states
Where this employer files.
| State | Filings | Median |
|---|---|---|
| NJ | 97 | $115k |
| PA | 68 | $110k |
| VA | 8 | $98k |
| MA | 7 | $131k |
| TX | 4 | $116k |
| NC | 1 | $140k |
| CO | 1 | $124k |
| CA | 1 | $76k |
| NY | 1 | $125k |
| NE | 1 | $141k |