H-1B Filings
805
Major sponsor. DOL labor condition applications on file.
Manufacturing MI DOL H-1B OSHA ITA
Ford Motor Company: H-1B Sponsorship Profile
Ford Motor Company in MI (Manufacturing) is a sponsorship-and-safety profile: 805 H-1B LCAs plus an employer-specific OSHA injury record, with no WARN notices in this corpus.
Ford Motor Company (MI): · 805 H-1B LCAs at a $134,539 disclosed median · OSHA Grade F (DART 3.22)
According to DOL OFLC H-1B disclosures, OSHA ITA injury logs, and state WARN Act notices, Ford Motor Company in MI carries 805 H-1B wage filings on record, a $134,539 median wage across 620 disclosed-wage positions (above the $124,488 national median), a weak F OSHA safety grade and no WARN layoff notices on file. Every figure is a federal filing, not an estimate; see methodology for coverage limits.
- 805 H-1B LCAs
- $134,539 median wage
- Grade F OSHA
The record at a glance
Compared with the rest of PlainEmployers' federal employer corpus, H-1B filing volume ranks #37 of 51,370 sponsors in this corpus (about the 100th percentile), and disclosed median wage sits at the 58th percentile of 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows.
- 100th pct
- H-1B filing rank
- 58th pct
- median wage rank
- 28%
- 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
43/100
4 of 4 federal tracks · Ford Motor Company
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+
805 H-1B LCAs
#37 of 51,370 sponsors · 100th percentile by volume (DOL OFLC)
Disclosed pay C
$134,539 median
58th percentile of 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows
Workplace safety F
OSHA Grade F · DART 3.22
Safer than 28% 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
- Ford Motor Company's disclosed H-1B petition count fell from 272 in FY2024 to 184 in FY2025 (-32.4%).
Median H-1B Salary
$134,539
Near national median. Across 620 disclosed positions
OSHA Safety Grade
Grade F · DART 3.22
Riskier than industry average. vs 0.77 same 2-digit NAICS sector (OSHA ITA 2022–2023, hours-weighted)
Where Ford Motor Company's H-1B wage sits nationally
Median disclosed wage vs. all US employers with H-1B filings
$134,539 Top 42% higher than 58% of 272,125 US employers
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Source DOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification, H-1B Disclosure Data · August 2026
Ford Motor Company's H-1B median wage, FY2024 vs FY2025
Filing-count-weighted median across this employer's own disclosed H-1B positions (-0.4% 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 | Ford Motor Company | DOL OFLC / OSHA |
| Industry | Manufacturing | NAICS / DOL |
| State | MI | U.S. Federal Records |
| H-1B Filings | 805 | DOL OFLC LCA Disclosure |
| H-1B Median Salary | $134,539 | DOL OFLC LCA Disclosure |
| OSHA Safety Grade | F | OSHA ITA |
| OSHA DART Rate | 3.22 | OSHA ITA Establishment Records |
| Tracks not on file | WARN notices | Empty by design, not estimated |
Ford Motor Company's values above reflect the most recent DOL Labor Condition Applications, OSHA Injury Tracking Application records on file for this employer in MI (Manufacturing). In this corpus, H-1B filing volume ranks #37 of 51,370 sponsors in this corpus (about the 100th percentile); disclosed median wage sits at the 58th percentile of 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows; OSHA DART rate is safer than roughly 28% of 214,554 employers with an establishment injury record.
H-1B Salary Data
| Job Title | Median |
|---|---|
| Staff Projection Tech Lead | $290,655 |
| Senior Staff Embedded Engineer | $279,757 |
| Director, System Integration & Quality | $278,387 |
| Director of Engineering | $273,915 |
| Product Group Manager, Supply Chain and Logistics Management | $267,852 |
| Senior Manager Digital Transformation | $264,441 |
| Senior Staff Embedded Controls Engineer, Body Controls | $257,760 |
| Senior Staff Systems Engineer, IVI Platform Software | $254,527 |
| Senior Staff Systems Engineer, OTA | $254,527 |
| Power Train Director | $251,275 |
| Integrated Services TPM Director | $242,700 |
| Staff Chassis Software Validation Lead | $238,827 |
| Staff Vehicle Software Integration Engineer | $238,827 |
| Staff Embedded Software Validation Engineer | $238,027 |
| Senior Staff Lighting Systems Engineer | $235,980 |
| Senior Staff Exterior Systems Engineer | $235,980 |
| Staff Diagnostics Engineer | $234,810 |
| Head of Omni Channel Analytics and Marketing Data Science | $232,000 |
| Head of Strategy, Ford Pro Intelligence | $228,766 |
| Staff Embedded Platform Engineer | $228,615 |
| Advanced EV Development – Powertrain CAE | $226,735 |
| Distinguished Software Engineer | $226,158 |
| Senior Staff Embedded Software Engineer | $226,138 |
| Sr. Staff Cell Modeling Engineer | $225,000 |
| Senior Staff Geartrain Architect | $223,320 |
| Staff Systems Integration Engineer | $221,011 |
| Staff Electrical Integration and Development Engineer | $219,306 |
| ADAS Technical Program Management Lead | $218,439 |
| Staff Technical Program Manager, Exterior Systems | $215,966 |
| Staff Data Scientist | $215,910 |
| Software Developer - IVI Test Automation | $214,017 |
| Staff Exterior Systems Engineer | $213,627 |
| Supervisor - ADAS Machine Learning Operations | $213,075 |
| Staff Software Engineer | $212,760 |
| Senior Software Engineer | $212,202 |
| Staff Diagnostics Engineer | $212,202 |
| HV EDS Components Design Engineer | $211,560 |
| Senior Embedded Platform Engineer | $209,265 |
| Technical Program Manager | $208,125 |
| Ecommerce Software Platform Engineering Manager | $207,651 |
| Senior Embedded Controls Engineer | $203,615 |
| ADAS Campaign Prevention Specialist | $202,262 |
| Release & Configuration Management Software Engineering Mngr | $201,251 |
| Data Engineering Manager | $198,176 |
| Global Salesforce Technical Architect | $196,080 |
| Staff System Software Verification Engineer | $195,358 |
| Staff Battery Systems Modeling Engineer | $195,300 |
| Staff Systems Engineer | $193,140 |
| Senior Systems Integration Engineer, Network Communications | $192,988 |
| Senior Advanced Development Engineer | $192,988 |
What the Data Says About Ford Motor Company
Signature stat: H-1B volume
Ford Motor Company's most extreme placement is sponsorship scale: 805 H-1B LCAs rank higher than 100% of sponsors in this corpus (#37 of 51,370).
Worse than sector norm
The establishment DART rate is 3.2, above the 0.8 sector norm (Grade F) across 2,372 reportable injuries on file.
No WARN filings
No WARN Act mass-layoff notices are on file for Ford Motor Company among Manufacturing employers we track.
Shrinking LCA footprint
FY2025 filings fell 32.4% from FY2024 (272 → 184).
Typical disclosed pay
A $134,539 disclosed median lands near the middle of the wage distribution (58th percentile vs $124,488 nationally).
OSHA Safety Record
Grade F DART Rate: 3.22 (same-NAICS-sector avg: 0.77)
This employer DART rate (lower is safer)
Same NAICS-sector average
Ford Motor Company'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: 2,372.
Where Ford Motor Company 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, Ford Motor Company files more petitions than 97% of them and discloses a higher median wage than 44%, the high-volume, below-median pay quadrant. Filing volume is hiring scale, not pay; the axes are independent DOL OFLC disclosures (805 filings · $134,539 median here).
Each muted dot is one manufacturing peer from a filings-stratified sample of 41; the brand marker is Ford Motor Company. Source: DOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification H-1B LCA disclosures (credible wages recomputed from per-position filings, excluding parse errors above $500k).
How Ford Motor Company compares to Manufacturing peers
Ford Motor Company's nearest H-1B-filing peers in Manufacturing (home state MI). Each card links to that employer's federal-records profile.
Ford Motor Company
805 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 Ford Motor Company, both outside MI so the neighborhoods are not the same-industry VsCard above.
Similar H-1B filing volume
Nearest nationwide sponsors outside MI (805 filings here).
- RANDSTAD DIGITAL, LLC (MA) · 791 filings
- Tech Mahindra (Americas) Inc. (NJ) · 785 filings
- Amazon Data Services, Inc (WA) · 763 filings
- Capital One Services, LLC (VA) · 756 filings
Similar OSHA DART rate
Nearest injury-rate peers outside MI (DART 3.22 here).
- AMTEC Corporation (SD) · DART 3.22
- Aramark (DE) · DART 3.22
- Arizona Tile (AZ) · DART 3.22
- Ascension Health ASCENSION ST VINCENTS CLAY COUNTY HOSP (FL) · DART 3.22
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 Ford Motor Company
For Ford Motor Company, read sponsorship pay (805 H-1B LCAs, median $134,539) next to the OSHA safety grade (F).
- H-1B median is $134,539 across 620 disclosed-wage positions (of 805 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
Ford Motor Company'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 Ford Motor Company's OSHA DART read is graded against its sector.
- H-1B salary negotiation - using disclosed wages like Ford Motor Company's when you negotiate.
- Compare employers - put Ford Motor Company next to peers on pay, safety, and WARN.
- National H-1B & safety statistics - where Ford Motor Company's #37 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 Ford Motor Company's H-1B wage sit nationally?
Among 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows in this corpus, Ford Motor Company's disclosed median of $134,539 sits at the 58th 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 Ford Motor Company's H-1B filing volume compare to other sponsors?
Ford Motor Company has 805 H-1B filings on record, ranking #37 of 51,370 sponsors in this corpus (about the 100th percentile by volume). Filing volume is a sponsorship signal, not a headcount or hiring-quality score.
What does Ford Motor Company's OSHA safety grade mean?
Ford Motor Company carries Grade F from its establishment injury record (2,372 injuries on file; DART 3.22). That DART rate is safer than roughly 28% 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.