H-1B Filings
74
Major sponsor. DOL labor condition applications on file.
Manufacturing CA DOL H-1B OSHA ITA WARN Act
Cepheid: Full Federal Profile
Cepheid in CA (Manufacturing) shows all three federal tracks on this profile: 74 H-1B LCAs, an employer OSHA injury record, and 49 WARN notices.
Cepheid (CA): · 74 H-1B LCAs at a $147,293 disclosed median · OSHA Grade F (DART 2.10) · 49 WARN notices
According to DOL OFLC H-1B disclosures, OSHA ITA injury logs, and state WARN Act notices, Cepheid in CA carries 74 H-1B wage filings on record, a $147,293 median wage across 70 disclosed-wage positions (above the $124,488 national median), a weak F OSHA safety grade and 49 WARN layoff notices on file. Every figure is a federal filing, not an estimate; see methodology for coverage limits.
- 74 H-1B LCAs
- $147,293 median wage
- Grade F OSHA
- 49 WARN
Layoff & federal record
Compared with the rest of PlainEmployers' federal employer corpus, H-1B filing volume ranks #648 of 51,370 sponsors in this corpus (about the 99th percentile), and disclosed median wage sits at the 67th percentile of 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows.
- 99th pct
- H-1B filing rank
- 67th pct
- median wage rank
- 39%
- safer on DART than
- 0%
- fewer WARN notices than
Figures above come from DOL H-1B LCAs, this employer's OSHA injury log, and state WARN notices, three independent disclosure systems.
D
Federal workforce composite
45/100
4 of 4 federal tracks · Cepheid
A weighted composite of DOL H-1B sponsorship and pay, OSHA establishment injury records, and WARN Act layoff notices, not culture, benefits, or "is this a good place to work." Missing tracks drop out and their weight redistributes so sparse records are not silently deflated.
Sponsorship scale A+
74 H-1B LCAs
#648 of 51,370 sponsors · 99th percentile by volume (DOL OFLC)
Disclosed pay B-
$147,293 median
67th percentile of 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows
Workplace safety F
OSHA Grade F · DART 2.10
Safer than 39% of 214,554 employers with an OSHA ITA record
Layoff stability F
49 WARN notices
Cleaner WARN history than 0% of 304,376 tracked employers (state workforce agencies)
Weights (redistributed when a track is N/A): Sponsorship scale (H-1B volume) 15% · Disclosed pay (H-1B wage percentile) 25% · Workplace safety (OSHA DART percentile) 35% · Layoff stability (WARN percentile) 25%. Sources: DOL OFLC · OSHA ITA · state WARN filings.
DOL LCA release change
What changed between the two LCA fiscal years
- Cepheid's disclosed H-1B petition count fell from 36 in FY2024 to 27 in FY2025 (-25%).
Median H-1B Salary
$147,293
Above national median. Across 70 disclosed positions
OSHA Safety Grade
Grade F · DART 2.10
Riskier than industry average. vs 0.77 same 2-digit NAICS sector (OSHA ITA 2022–2023, hours-weighted)
WARN Workforce Impact
2,530 workers
Less stable than most peers. 49 WARN Act notices on file
Where Cepheid's H-1B wage sits nationally
Median disclosed wage vs. all US employers with H-1B filings
$147,293 Top 33% higher than 67% of 272,125 US employers
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Source DOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification, H-1B Disclosure Data · August 2026
Cepheid's H-1B median wage, FY2024 vs FY2025
Filing-count-weighted median across this employer's own disclosed H-1B positions (+0.1% year over year), not a company-wide raise, and not adjusted for role mix changes between years.
Government Data Summary
| Field | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Employer Name | Cepheid | DOL OFLC / OSHA / WARN |
| Industry | Manufacturing | NAICS / DOL |
| State | CA | U.S. Federal Records |
| H-1B Filings | 74 | DOL OFLC LCA Disclosure |
| H-1B Median Salary | $147,293 | DOL OFLC LCA Disclosure |
| OSHA Safety Grade | F | OSHA ITA |
| OSHA DART Rate | 2.10 | OSHA ITA Establishment Records |
| WARN Layoff Notices | 49 notice(s), 2,530 workers | WARN Act notices, state workforce agency originals (archival backstop: LayoffData.com) |
Cepheid's values above reflect the most recent DOL Labor Condition Applications, OSHA Injury Tracking Application records, WARN Act notices on file for this employer in CA (Manufacturing). In this corpus, H-1B filing volume ranks #648 of 51,370 sponsors in this corpus (about the 99th percentile); disclosed median wage sits at the 67th percentile of 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows; OSHA DART rate is safer than roughly 39% of 214,554 employers with an establishment injury record.
H-1B Salary Data
| Job Title | Median |
|---|---|
| Director “ Commercial IT Systems | $225,100 |
| Director – Commercial IT Systems | $225,100 |
| Senior Staff Data Engineer | $206,000 |
| Staff Algorithm Developer | $200,000 |
| Innovation Danaher Business System Leader | $188,729 |
| Quality Manufacturing Manager | $179,746 |
| Senior Product Innovation Manager, Systems | $177,902 |
| Sr. Manager SAP | $177,352 |
| Manager, Consumables Engineering | $177,120 |
| Staff Software Engineer | $174,017 |
| Financial Systems Architect/Administrator | $173,350 |
| Senior R&D Engineer | $170,825 |
| Senior S&OP Franchise/Program Manager | $170,000 |
| Sr. Architect RPA Technologies | $168,756 |
| Technical Program Manager Lead | $165,778 |
| Staff Technical Writer | $165,000 |
| Manager, Manufacturing Engineer | $161,583 |
| Senior Process Engineer, Array R&D | $160,373 |
| Staff Scientist, R&D MEMP | $160,000 |
| Sr. Manager, Commercial Contracts | $159,900 |
| Staff Consumables Engineer | $159,595 |
| Staff, Consumables Design Engineer | $158,308 |
| Senior Sustaining Electrical Engineer | $156,513 |
| Senior SAP Solutions Architect PP | $156,056 |
| Senior Automation Controls Engineer | $154,245 |
| Senior Technical Product Manager, Systems | $151,655 |
| Senior Supplier Quality Engineer | $151,000 |
| Senior Systems Quality Compliance Engineer | $150,854 |
| Staff Automation Development Engineer | $150,393 |
| Senior IT DevOps Engineer | $150,000 |
| Systems Engineer - Data Management | $149,972 |
| Engineer, Product Transfer | $149,454 |
| Senior Automation Controls Engineer | $148,016 |
| Senior Architect Test Automation | $147,798 |
| Staff Systems Integration Engineer | $147,293 |
| Senior Supplier Quality Engineer | $146,474 |
| Embedded Software Engineer III | $145,624 |
| Senior Component Engineer | $145,370 |
| UI/UX Software Engineer | $145,000 |
| Senior Quality Operations Engineer | $143,332 |
| Senior Process Engineer | $141,856 |
| Senior Scientist I | $141,473 |
| Senior Project Manager, PLM | $139,992 |
| Senior Scientist I | $139,383 |
| Senior Supplier Quality Engineer | $138,721 |
| Senior Process Engineer | $137,914 |
| Senior Scientist II | $135,635 |
| Software/Firmware Test Engineer | $135,000 |
| Senior Electrical Safety Engineer, Automation | $133,025 |
| Software Engineer III | $131,050 |
What the Data Says About Cepheid
Signature stat: WARN history
WARN history dominates: 49 notices put this employer among the 100% with the heaviest layoff filings in the corpus.
Worse than sector norm
The establishment DART rate is 2.1, above the 0.8 sector norm (Grade F) across 63 reportable injuries on file.
Heavy H-1B sponsor
Cepheid in CA (Manufacturing) filed 74 H-1B labor condition applications, of which 70 disclose a usable wage figure at a $147,293 disclosed median — a top-tercile sponsorship footprint in this corpus.
Top-quartile disclosed pay
Disclosed pay runs high: $147,293 median beats 67% of credible wage rows and sits above the $124,488 national median.
Shrinking LCA footprint
FY2025 filings fell 25% from FY2024 (36 → 27).
Dual-track profile
Cepheid is one of the rarer profiles carrying both sponsorship volume (74 H-1B LCAs) and WARN history (49 notices) in the same public record (Manufacturing) in CA. Weigh those signals separately.
OSHA Safety Record
Grade F DART Rate: 2.10 (same-NAICS-sector avg: 0.77)
This employer DART rate (lower is safer)
Same NAICS-sector average
Cepheid's DART rate (days away/restricted/transferred per 100 FTE) vs the hours-weighted 2-digit NAICS sector average from OSHA ITA 2022–2023 (Manufacturing).
Total reported injuries on file: 63.
Where Cepheid sits
This employer among Manufacturing H-1B peers
Across the 200 Manufacturing sponsors in this corpus with both an H-1B filing count and a credible disclosed-wage median, Cepheid files more petitions than 75% of them and discloses a higher median wage than 60%, the high-volume, above-median pay quadrant. Filing volume is hiring scale, not pay; the axes are independent DOL OFLC disclosures (74 filings · $147,293 median here).
Each muted dot is one manufacturing peer from a filings-stratified sample of 40; the brand marker is Cepheid. Source: DOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification H-1B LCA disclosures (credible wages recomputed from per-position filings, excluding parse errors above $500k).
How Cepheid compares to Manufacturing peers
Cepheid's nearest H-1B-filing peers in Manufacturing (home state CA). Each card links to that employer's federal-records profile.
Cepheid
74 H-1B filings
NVIDIA Corporation
1,989 H-1B filings
Intel Corporation
1,938 H-1B filings
Nationwide employers with similar H-1B volume or workplace injury rate
Two federal-records peer sets for Cepheid, both outside CA so the neighborhoods are not the same-industry VsCard above.
Similar OSHA DART rate
Nearest injury-rate peers outside CA (DART 2.10 here).
- Advantage Tank Lines, LLC (WI) · DART 2.10
- Agrace HospiceCare, Inc. (WI) · DART 2.10
- Alexander's Print Stop (UT) · DART 2.10
- Amentum Services Inc (PA) · DART 2.10
Peers are nearest-neighbor matches on disclosed filing counts and OSHA ITA DART rates; employers with fewer than 100 H-1B filings or fewer than 10 reported injuries are excluded from the comparison corpus.
WARN Act Layoff History
| Notice Date | Workers |
|---|---|
| 2025-03-13 | 3 |
| 2025-03-13 | 6 |
| 2025-03-13 | 7 |
| 2025-03-13 | 33 |
| 2025-03-13 | 8 |
| 2025-03-13 | 5 |
| 2025-03-13 | 61 |
| 2025-03-13 | 3 |
| 2025-03-13 | 3 |
| 2025-03-13 | 2 |
| 2025-03-13 | 4 |
| 2025-03-13 | 24 |
| 2025-03-13 | 1 |
| 2025-03-13 | 7 |
| 2024-07-31 | 622 |
| 2024-07-31 | 2 |
| 2024-07-31 | 2 |
| 2024-07-25 | 11 |
| 2024-01-25 | 92 |
| 2023-04-25 | 46 |
| 2023-04-25 | 222 |
| 2023-04-25 | 6 |
| 2023-04-25 | 343 |
| 2023-04-25 | 1 |
| 2023-04-25 | 1 |
| 2023-04-25 | 1 |
| 2023-04-25 | 1 |
| 2023-04-25 | 1 |
| 2023-04-25 | 1 |
| 2023-04-25 | 1 |
| 2023-04-25 | 1 |
| 2023-04-25 | 58 |
| 2023-04-25 | 1 |
| 2023-04-25 | 1 |
| 2023-04-25 | 1 |
| 2022-10-31 | 632 |
| 2022-10-31 | 36 |
| 2022-10-31 | 250 |
| 2022-10-31 | 1 |
| 2022-10-31 | 1 |
| 2022-10-31 | 1 |
| 2022-10-31 | 1 |
| 2022-10-31 | 1 |
| 2022-10-31 | 1 |
| 2022-10-31 | 1 |
| 2022-10-31 | 20 |
| 2022-10-31 | 1 |
| 2022-10-31 | 1 |
| 2022-10-31 | 1 |
What to check before working with Cepheid
Cepheid needs a three-way read: H-1B pay (74 LCAs), safety (grade F), and WARN history (49 notices); none of those alone is the rating.
- H-1B median is $147,293 across 70 disclosed-wage positions (of 74 total filings), benchmark any offer against it and the metro prevailing wage. Compare with peers
- Safety grade F reflects a DART rate read against the Manufacturing average of 0.77 - a relative benchmark, not an absolute verdict. How grades work
- 49 WARN layoff notices on file, review the timing before counting on job stability. Reading WARN notices
Cepheid's figures are legally filed public records (DOL, OSHA, state WARN), not reviews or vendor estimates; a missing row is not proof the underlying activity never happened.
Read with this employer
- NVIDIA Corporation (CA) - 1,989 H-1B filings in the same Manufacturing roster
- Intel Corporation (CA) - 1,938 H-1B filings in the same Manufacturing roster
- Tesla, Inc. (TX) - 1,868 H-1B filings in the same Manufacturing roster
- Interpreting safety grades - how Cepheid's OSHA DART read is graded against its sector.
- Reading WARN notices - what Cepheid's layoff filings do and do not prove.
- H-1B salary negotiation - using disclosed wages like Cepheid's when you negotiate.
- Compare employers - put Cepheid next to peers on pay, safety, and WARN.
- National H-1B & safety statistics - where Cepheid's #648 placement sits in the full federal roster.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Where does Cepheid's H-1B wage sit nationally?
Among 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows in this corpus, Cepheid's disclosed median of $147,293 sits at the 67th percentile (above the $124,488 national median). The chart above uses a COUNT-exact percentile (rows below this wage ÷ total), not an interpolated estimate.
How does Cepheid's H-1B filing volume compare to other sponsors?
Cepheid has 74 H-1B filings on record, ranking #648 of 51,370 sponsors in this corpus (about the 99th percentile by volume). Filing volume is a sponsorship signal, not a headcount or hiring-quality score.
What does Cepheid's OSHA safety grade mean?
Cepheid carries Grade F from its establishment injury record (63 injuries on file; DART 2.10). That DART rate is safer than roughly 39% of 214,554 employers with an injury record in this corpus. Grades compare DART against industry averages, see the Interpreting Safety Grades guide.
Does Cepheid have WARN layoff notices on file?
Yes - 49 WARN Act notices affecting about 2,530 workers appear in the state-agency corpus for this employer. WARN covers mass layoffs and plant closings that meet statutory thresholds; absence of notices is not a guarantee of stability.
Related guides: How OSHA safety grades are calculated · Using H-1B wage filings in salary negotiation
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
This profile is rendered directly from DOL H-1B disclosure filings, OSHA Injury Tracking Application records and state WARN Act layoff notices, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.