H-1B Filings
128
Major sponsor. DOL labor condition applications on file.
Retail Trade WA DOL H-1B OSHA ITA
Costco Wholesale Corporation: H-1B Sponsorship Profile
Costco Wholesale Corporation in WA (Retail Trade) is a sponsorship-and-safety profile: 128 H-1B LCAs plus an employer-specific OSHA injury record, with no WARN notices in this corpus.
Costco Wholesale Corporation (WA): · 128 H-1B LCAs at a $152,000 disclosed median · OSHA Grade D (DART 6.51)
According to DOL OFLC H-1B disclosures, OSHA ITA injury logs, and state WARN Act notices, Costco Wholesale Corporation in WA carries 128 H-1B wage filings on record, a $152,000 median wage across 48 disclosed-wage positions (above the $124,488 national median), a below-average D OSHA safety grade and no WARN layoff notices on file. Every figure is a federal filing, not an estimate; see methodology for coverage limits.
- 128 H-1B LCAs
- $152,000 median wage
- Grade D OSHA
The record at a glance
Compared with the rest of PlainEmployers' federal employer corpus, H-1B filing volume ranks #363 of 51,370 sponsors in this corpus (about the 99th percentile), and disclosed median wage sits at the 70th percentile of 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows.
- 99th pct
- H-1B filing rank
- 70th pct
- median wage rank
- 11%
- safer on DART than
- 14%
- cleaner WARN history than
Figures above come from DOL H-1B LCAs and this employer's OSHA injury log; no WARN notices are on file here.
D
Federal workforce composite
40/100
4 of 4 federal tracks · Costco Wholesale Corporation
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+
128 H-1B LCAs
#363 of 51,370 sponsors · 99th percentile by volume (DOL OFLC)
Disclosed pay B
$152,000 median
70th percentile of 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows
Workplace safety F
OSHA Grade D · DART 6.51
Safer than 11% of 214,554 employers with an OSHA ITA record
Layoff stability F
0 WARN notices
Cleaner WARN history than 14% 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
- Costco Wholesale Corporation's disclosed H-1B petition count rose from 31 in FY2024 to 37 in FY2025 (+19.4%).
Median H-1B Salary
$152,000
Above national median. Across 48 disclosed positions
OSHA Safety Grade
Grade D · DART 6.51
Riskier than industry average. vs 3.66 same 2-digit NAICS sector (OSHA ITA 2022–2023, hours-weighted)
Where Costco Wholesale Corporation's H-1B wage sits nationally
Median disclosed wage vs. all US employers with H-1B filings
$152,000 Top 30% higher than 70% of 272,125 US employers
Each bar is a $20K-wide band; taller bars hold more US employers. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source DOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification, H-1B Disclosure Data · August 2026
Costco Wholesale Corporation's H-1B median wage, FY2024 vs FY2025
Filing-count-weighted median across this employer's own disclosed H-1B positions (+0.9% 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 | Costco Wholesale Corporation | DOL OFLC / OSHA |
| Industry | Retail Trade | NAICS / DOL |
| State | WA | U.S. Federal Records |
| H-1B Filings | 128 | DOL OFLC LCA Disclosure |
| H-1B Median Salary | $152,000 | DOL OFLC LCA Disclosure |
| OSHA Safety Grade | D | OSHA ITA |
| OSHA DART Rate | 6.51 | OSHA ITA Establishment Records |
| Tracks not on file | WARN notices | Empty by design, not estimated |
Costco Wholesale Corporation's values above reflect the most recent DOL Labor Condition Applications, OSHA Injury Tracking Application records on file for this employer in WA (Retail Trade). In this corpus, H-1B filing volume ranks #363 of 51,370 sponsors in this corpus (about the 99th percentile); disclosed median wage sits at the 70th percentile of 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows; OSHA DART rate is safer than roughly 11% of 214,554 employers with an establishment injury record.
H-1B Salary Data
| Job Title | Median |
|---|---|
| Director of Professional Services | $250,000 |
| Solution Architect | $223,100 |
| Principal Engineer | $220,000 |
| SOX Compliance Engineer | $212,200 |
| Endpoint Security Engineer | $212,000 |
| Security Engineer | $197,650 |
| IT Manager, Software Architecture | $184,500 |
| Compliance Engineer - Cloud Engineering | $175,000 |
| Security Engineer | $175,000 |
| Senior Software Engineer | $170,000 |
| Platform Engineer | $169,000 |
| DevOp Engineer | $168,400 |
| SAP BW Software Developer | $163,800 |
| Platform Engineer | $163,000 |
| Solution Architect 3 | $162,100 |
| Software Engineer | $160,185 |
| Full Stack Engineer | $160,000 |
| Software Engineer | $159,600 |
| Software Developer | $157,100 |
| Platform Engineer | $155,333 |
| Data Engineer | $155,000 |
| Quality Engineer | $154,500 |
| Data Engineer | $153,775 |
| Quality Engineer | $152,000 |
| Software Engineer | $152,000 |
| Software Engineer | $151,367 |
| Software Engineer | $150,800 |
| Java Application Developer | $150,100 |
| DevOps Engineer | $150,000 |
| Cloud Database Administrator | $150,000 |
| Data Engineer | $148,533 |
| Quality Engineer | $147,700 |
| Software Developer | $147,200 |
| Functional Analyst | $147,100 |
| BI Engineer | $146,200 |
| DevOps Engineer | $145,800 |
| Functional Analyst | $145,700 |
| Quality Engineer | $145,700 |
| Software Developer | $145,400 |
| Functional Analyst | $144,800 |
| BI Engineer | $143,400 |
| SAP FICO Functional Analyst | $142,700 |
| QA Analyst | $140,000 |
| Quality Engineer | $138,500 |
| Quality Engineer 3 | $137,700 |
| Full Stack Engineer | $133,800 |
| Software Engineer | $130,100 |
| BI Engineer | $128,000 |
What the Data Says About Costco Wholesale Corporation
Signature stat: H-1B volume
Costco Wholesale Corporation's most extreme placement is sponsorship scale: 128 H-1B LCAs rank higher than 99% of sponsors in this corpus (#363 of 51,370).
Worse than sector norm
The establishment DART rate is 6.5, above the 3.7 sector norm (Grade D) across 1,514 reportable injuries on file.
No WARN filings
No WARN Act mass-layoff notices are on file for Costco Wholesale Corporation among Retail Trade employers we track.
Top-quartile disclosed pay
Disclosed pay runs high: $152,000 median beats 70% of credible wage rows and sits above the $124,488 national median.
Growing LCA footprint
FY2025 added 6 filings versus FY2024 (19.4%), a sponsorship expansion visible in the raw LCA counts.
OSHA Safety Record
Grade D DART Rate: 6.51 (same-NAICS-sector avg: 3.66)
This employer DART rate (lower is safer)
Same NAICS-sector average
Costco Wholesale Corporation's DART rate (days away/restricted/transferred per 100 FTE) vs the hours-weighted 2-digit NAICS sector average from OSHA ITA 2022–2023 (Retail Trade).
Total reported injuries on file: 1,514.
Where Costco Wholesale Corporation sits
This employer among Retail Trade H-1B peers
Across the 157 Retail Trade sponsors in this corpus with both an H-1B filing count and a credible disclosed-wage median, Costco Wholesale Corporation files more petitions than 93% 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 (128 filings · $152,000 median here).
Each muted dot is one retail trade peer from a filings-stratified sample of 41; the brand marker is Costco Wholesale Corporation. Source: DOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification H-1B LCA disclosures (credible wages recomputed from per-position filings, excluding parse errors above $500k).
How Costco Wholesale Corporation compares to Retail Trade peers
Costco Wholesale Corporation's nearest H-1B-filing peers in Retail Trade (home state WA). Each card links to that employer's federal-records profile.
Costco Wholesale Corporation
128 H-1B filings
WAL-MART ASSOCIATES, INC.
2,614 H-1B filings
eBay Inc.
644 H-1B filings
Nationwide employers with similar H-1B volume or workplace injury rate
Two federal-records peer sets for Costco Wholesale Corporation, both outside WA so the neighborhoods are not the same-industry VsCard above.
Similar H-1B filing volume
Nearest nationwide sponsors outside WA (128 filings here).
- LPL Financial LLC (SC) · 128 filings
- Birlasoft Inc (NJ) · 127 filings
- Epitec, Inc. (MI) · 129 filings
- Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (VA) · 129 filings
Similar OSHA DART rate
Nearest injury-rate peers outside WA (DART 6.51 here).
- Aldi Inc. (Pennsylvania) (NJ) · DART 6.51
- Atalys, LLC (NY) · DART 6.51
- Busboys and Poets - Hyattsville (MD) · DART 6.51
- Fort Wayne Public Transportation Corporation dba Citilink (IN) · DART 6.51
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.
What to check before working with Costco Wholesale Corporation
For Costco Wholesale Corporation, read sponsorship pay (128 H-1B LCAs, median $152,000) next to the OSHA safety grade (D).
- H-1B median is $152,000 across 48 disclosed-wage positions (of 128 total filings), benchmark any offer against it and the metro prevailing wage. Compare with peers
- Safety grade D reflects a DART rate read against the Retail Trade average of 3.66 - a relative benchmark, not an absolute verdict. How grades work
Costco Wholesale Corporation'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
- WAL-MART ASSOCIATES, INC. (AR) - 2,614 H-1B filings in the same Retail Trade roster
- eBay Inc. (CA) - 644 H-1B filings in the same Retail Trade roster
- Caremark LLC (RI) - 340 H-1B filings in the same Retail Trade roster
- Interpreting safety grades - how Costco Wholesale Corporation's OSHA DART read is graded against its sector.
- H-1B salary negotiation - using disclosed wages like Costco Wholesale Corporation's when you negotiate.
- Compare employers - put Costco Wholesale Corporation next to peers on pay, safety, and WARN.
- National H-1B & safety statistics - where Costco Wholesale Corporation's #363 placement sits in the full federal roster.
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Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from OSHA and the DOL Wage and Hour Division. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where does Costco Wholesale Corporation's H-1B wage sit nationally?
Among 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows in this corpus, Costco Wholesale Corporation's disclosed median of $152,000 sits at the 70th 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 Costco Wholesale Corporation's H-1B filing volume compare to other sponsors?
Costco Wholesale Corporation has 128 H-1B filings on record, ranking #363 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 Costco Wholesale Corporation's OSHA safety grade mean?
Costco Wholesale Corporation carries Grade D from its establishment injury record (1,514 injuries on file; DART 6.51). That DART rate is safer than roughly 11% of 214,554 employers with an injury record in this corpus. Grades compare DART against industry averages, see the Interpreting Safety Grades guide.
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 and OSHA Injury Tracking Application records, 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.