H-1B Filings
23
Major sponsor. DOL labor condition applications on file.
Transportation & Warehousing CO DOL H-1B OSHA ITA WARN Act
Frontier Airlines: Full Federal Profile
Frontier Airlines in CO (Transportation & Warehousing) shows all three federal tracks on this profile: 23 H-1B LCAs, an employer OSHA injury record, and 2 WARN notices.
Frontier Airlines (CO): · 23 H-1B LCAs at a $217,745 disclosed median · OSHA Grade B (DART 1.73) · 2 WARN notices
According to DOL OFLC H-1B disclosures, OSHA ITA injury logs, and state WARN Act notices, Frontier Airlines in CO carries 23 H-1B wage filings on record, a $217,745 median wage across 12 disclosed-wage positions (above the $124,488 national median), a solid B OSHA safety grade and 2 WARN layoff notices on file. Every figure is a federal filing, not an estimate; see methodology for coverage limits.
- 23 H-1B LCAs
- $217,745 median wage
- Grade B OSHA
- 2 WARN
Layoff & federal record
Compared with the rest of PlainEmployers' federal employer corpus, H-1B filing volume ranks #2,223 of 51,370 sponsors in this corpus (about the 95th percentile), and disclosed median wage sits at the 92nd percentile of 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows.
- 95th pct
- H-1B filing rank
- 92nd pct
- median wage rank
- 43%
- safer on DART than
- 1%
- 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.
C-
Federal workforce composite
53/100
4 of 4 federal tracks · Frontier Airlines
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+
23 H-1B LCAs
#2,223 of 51,370 sponsors · 95th percentile by volume (DOL OFLC)
Disclosed pay A+
$217,745 median
92nd percentile of 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows
Workplace safety D
OSHA Grade B · DART 1.73
Safer than 43% of 214,554 employers with an OSHA ITA record
Layoff stability F
2 WARN notices
Cleaner WARN history than 1% 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
- Frontier Airlines's filing-count-weighted median disclosed H-1B wage rose from $198,492 in FY2024 to $321,446 in FY2025 (+61.9%).
Median H-1B Salary
$217,745
Above national median. Across 12 disclosed positions
OSHA Safety Grade
Grade B · DART 1.73
Safer than industry average. vs 2.55 same 2-digit NAICS sector (OSHA ITA 2022–2023, hours-weighted)
WARN Workforce Impact
1,550 workers
Less stable than most peers. 2 WARN Act notices on file
Where Frontier Airlines's H-1B wage sits nationally
Median disclosed wage vs. all US employers with H-1B filings
$217,745 Top 8% higher than 92% 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
Frontier Airlines's H-1B median wage, FY2024 vs FY2025
Filing-count-weighted median across this employer's own disclosed H-1B positions (+61.9% 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 | Frontier Airlines | DOL OFLC / OSHA / WARN |
| Industry | Transportation & Warehousing | NAICS / DOL |
| State | CO | U.S. Federal Records |
| H-1B Filings | 23 | DOL OFLC LCA Disclosure |
| H-1B Median Salary | $217,745 | DOL OFLC LCA Disclosure |
| OSHA Safety Grade | B | OSHA ITA |
| OSHA DART Rate | 1.73 | OSHA ITA Establishment Records |
| WARN Layoff Notices | 2 notice(s), 1,550 workers | WARN Act notices, state workforce agency originals (archival backstop: LayoffData.com) |
Frontier Airlines'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 CO (Transportation & Warehousing). In this corpus, H-1B filing volume ranks #2,223 of 51,370 sponsors in this corpus (about the 95th percentile); disclosed median wage sits at the 92nd percentile of 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows; OSHA DART rate is safer than roughly 43% of 214,554 employers with an establishment injury record.
H-1B Salary Data
| Job Title | Median |
|---|---|
| Captain | $466,745 |
| First Officer | $258,093 |
| Captain | $246,979 |
| First Officer | $246,979 |
| First Officer | $246,979 |
| First Officer | $217,745 |
| Director, Operations Planning & Design | $215,000 |
| Director, Fleet | $203,014 |
| Lead Engineer, Cloud | $140,000 |
| Senior Analyst, Financial | $90,000 |
| Associate Data Analyst | $83,000 |
| Safety Analyst (ASAP II) | $75,608 |
What the Data Says About Frontier Airlines
Signature stat: WARN history
WARN history dominates: 2 notices put this employer among the 99% with the heaviest layoff filings in the corpus.
Heavy H-1B sponsor
Frontier Airlines in CO (Transportation & Warehousing) filed 23 H-1B labor condition applications, of which 12 disclose a usable wage figure at a $217,745 disclosed median — a top-tercile sponsorship footprint in this corpus.
Top-quartile disclosed pay
Disclosed pay runs high: $217,745 median beats 92% of credible wage rows and sits above the $124,488 national median.
Rising disclosed medians
Disclosed medians moved from $198,492 (FY2024) to $321,446 (FY2025) (+61.9%), weighted by this employer's own LCA rows — not a company-wide raise and not role-mix adjusted.
Safer than sector norm
OSHA logged 25 injuries at a DART rate of 1.7 against a 2.6 same-NAICS-sector average (Grade B).
Dual-track profile
Frontier Airlines is one of the rarer profiles carrying both sponsorship volume (23 H-1B LCAs) and WARN history (2 notices) in the same public record (Transportation & Warehousing) in CO. Weigh those signals separately.
Shrinking LCA footprint
FY2025 filings fell 12.5% from FY2024 (8 → 7).
OSHA Safety Record
Grade B DART Rate: 1.73 (same-NAICS-sector avg: 2.55)
This employer DART rate (lower is safer)
Same NAICS-sector average
Frontier Airlines's DART rate (days away/restricted/transferred per 100 FTE) vs the hours-weighted 2-digit NAICS sector average from OSHA ITA 2022–2023 (Transportation & Warehousing).
Total reported injuries on file: 25.
Where Frontier Airlines sits
This employer among Transportation & Warehousing H-1B peers
Across the 120 Transportation & Warehousing sponsors in this corpus with both an H-1B filing count and a credible disclosed-wage median, Frontier Airlines files more petitions than 71% of them and discloses a higher median wage than 97%, the high-volume, above-median pay quadrant. Filing volume is hiring scale, not pay; the axes are independent DOL OFLC disclosures (23 filings · $217,745 median here).
Each muted dot is one transportation & warehousing peer from a filings-stratified sample of 40; the brand marker is Frontier Airlines. Source: DOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification H-1B LCA disclosures (credible wages recomputed from per-position filings, excluding parse errors above $500k).
How Frontier Airlines compares to Transportation & Warehousing peers
Frontier Airlines's nearest H-1B-filing peers in Transportation & Warehousing (home state CO). Each card links to that employer's federal-records profile.
Frontier Airlines
23 H-1B filings
Apple Inc.
6,047 H-1B filings
Amazon.com Services LLC
5,757 H-1B filings
Nationwide employers with similar H-1B volume or workplace injury rate
Two federal-records peer sets for Frontier Airlines, both outside CO so the neighborhoods are not the same-industry VsCard above.
Similar OSHA DART rate
Nearest injury-rate peers outside CO (DART 1.73 here).
- ADESA TEXAS INC (TX) · DART 1.73
- American Campus Communities (TX) · DART 1.73
- Biomat USA (IN) · DART 1.73
- Biomat USA (MO) · DART 1.73
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 |
|---|---|
| 2020-07-30 | 398 |
| 2015-01-16 | 1,152 |
What to check before working with Frontier Airlines
Frontier Airlines needs a three-way read: H-1B pay (23 LCAs), safety (grade B), and WARN history (2 notices); none of those alone is the rating.
- H-1B median is $217,745 across 12 disclosed-wage positions (of 23 total filings), benchmark any offer against it and the metro prevailing wage. Compare with peers
- Safety grade B reflects a DART rate read against the Transportation & Warehousing average of 2.55 - a relative benchmark, not an absolute verdict. How grades work
- 2 WARN layoff notices on file, review the timing before counting on job stability. Reading WARN notices
Frontier Airlines'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
- Apple Inc. (CA) - 6,047 H-1B filings in the same Transportation & Warehousing roster
- Amazon.com Services LLC (WA) - 5,757 H-1B filings in the same Transportation & Warehousing roster
- AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC (VA) - 737 H-1B filings in the same Transportation & Warehousing roster
- Interpreting safety grades - how Frontier Airlines's OSHA DART read is graded against its sector.
- Reading WARN notices - what Frontier Airlines's layoff filings do and do not prove.
- H-1B salary negotiation - using disclosed wages like Frontier Airlines's when you negotiate.
- Compare employers - put Frontier Airlines next to peers on pay, safety, and WARN.
- National H-1B & safety statistics - where Frontier Airlines's #2,223 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 Frontier Airlines's H-1B wage sit nationally?
Among 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows in this corpus, Frontier Airlines's disclosed median of $217,745 sits at the 92nd 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 Frontier Airlines's H-1B filing volume compare to other sponsors?
Frontier Airlines has 23 H-1B filings on record, ranking #2,223 of 51,370 sponsors in this corpus (about the 95th percentile by volume). Filing volume is a sponsorship signal, not a headcount or hiring-quality score.
What does Frontier Airlines's OSHA safety grade mean?
Frontier Airlines carries Grade B from its establishment injury record (25 injuries on file; DART 1.73). That DART rate is safer than roughly 43% of 214,554 employers with an injury record in this corpus. Grades compare DART against industry averages, see the Interpreting Safety Grades guide.
Does Frontier Airlines have WARN layoff notices on file?
Yes - 2 WARN Act notices affecting about 1,550 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.