H-1B Filings
144
Major sponsor. DOL labor condition applications on file.
Professional & Technical Services MA DOL H-1B
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated: H-1B Sponsorship Profile
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated in MA (Professional & Technical Services) is dominated by DOL H-1B labor-condition applications (144 on file) at a $149,346 disclosed median; OSHA and WARN tracks are empty here.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (MA): · 144 H-1B LCAs at a $149,346 disclosed median
According to DOL OFLC H-1B disclosures, OSHA ITA injury logs, and state WARN Act notices, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated in MA carries 144 H-1B wage filings on record, a $149,346 median wage across 118 disclosed-wage positions (above the $124,488 national median) and no WARN layoff notices on file. Every figure is a federal filing, not an estimate; see methodology for coverage limits.
- 144 H-1B LCAs
- $149,346 median wage
The record at a glance
Compared with the rest of PlainEmployers' federal employer corpus, H-1B filing volume ranks #320 of 51,370 sponsors in this corpus (about the 99th percentile), and disclosed median wage sits at the 68th percentile of 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows.
- 99th pct
- H-1B filing rank
- 68th pct
- median wage rank
- 14%
- cleaner WARN history than
Figures above come from DOL H-1B labor condition applications only, OSHA and WARN tracks are empty on this profile.
C-
Federal workforce composite
54/100
3 of 4 federal tracks · Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
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+
144 H-1B LCAs
#320 of 51,370 sponsors · 99th percentile by volume (DOL OFLC)
Disclosed pay B-
$149,346 median
68th percentile of 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows
Workplace safety N/A
No OSHA record
No employer-specific OSHA ITA injury log; weight redistributes (industry estimates never pad this dim).
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
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated's filing-count-weighted median disclosed H-1B wage rose from $132,164 in FY2024 to $141,235 in FY2025 (+6.9%).
Median H-1B Salary
$149,346
Above national median. Across 118 disclosed positions
Where Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated's H-1B wage sits nationally
Median disclosed wage vs. all US employers with H-1B filings
$149,346 Top 32% higher than 68% of 272,125 US employers
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Source DOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification, H-1B Disclosure Data · August 2026
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated's H-1B median wage, FY2024 vs FY2025
Filing-count-weighted median across this employer's own disclosed H-1B positions (+6.9% 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 | Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | DOL OFLC |
| Industry | Professional & Technical Services | NAICS / DOL |
| State | MA | U.S. Federal Records |
| H-1B Filings | 144 | DOL OFLC LCA Disclosure |
| H-1B Median Salary | $149,346 | DOL OFLC LCA Disclosure |
| Tracks not on file | employer OSHA injury log, WARN notices | Empty by design, not estimated |
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated's values above reflect the most recent DOL Labor Condition Applications on file for this employer in MA (Professional & Technical Services). In this corpus, H-1B filing volume ranks #320 of 51,370 sponsors in this corpus (about the 99th percentile); disclosed median wage sits at the 68th percentile of 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows; WARN history is cleaner than 14% of 304,376 employers tracked here.
H-1B Salary Data
| Job Title | Median |
|---|---|
| Director, Contracting Operations | $253,340 |
| Director, Business Engagement & Technology | $241,590 |
| Director, Statistical Programming | $230,000 |
| Director, Architecture & Strategy | $223,600 |
| Director, Chemistry Manufacturing Controls | $222,435 |
| Senior Principal Software Engineer | $220,266 |
| Associate Director, Business Engagement & Technology | $215,000 |
| Machine Learning Engineering Fellow | $212,500 |
| Regulatory Strategy Director | $210,891 |
| Health Economics & Outcomes Research Associate Director | $204,035 |
| Architecture & Strategy Principal Analyst | $200,066 |
| Commercial Analytics Associate Director | $197,200 |
| Director, Chemistry Manufacturing Controls | $195,500 |
| Director, Process Engineering | $192,379 |
| Business Engagement & Technology Principal Engineer | $191,703 |
| Business Engagement & Technology Senior Principal Analyst | $191,088 |
| People Analytics Senior Manager | $190,102 |
| Principal Biostatistician | $190,000 |
| Health Economics & Outcomes Research Associate Director | $188,157 |
| Cybersecurity Principal Engineer | $184,500 |
| Automation Principal Engineer | $183,000 |
| Commercial Analytics Senior Manager | $182,902 |
| Core Technology Principal Engineer | $180,000 |
| Health Economics & Outcomes Research Senior Manager | $180,000 |
| Quality Product Complaints Associate Director | $179,171 |
| Toxicology Principal Research Scientist | $178,500 |
| Tech Lead, Digital Process Automation | $178,131 |
| Quality Analytics Senior Manager | $175,952 |
| Business Engagement & Technology Principal Analyst | $174,066 |
| Patient Safety Systems Principal Analyst | $173,902 |
| Associate Director, Information Systems Management | $172,744 |
| Commercial Analytics Associate Director | $170,672 |
| Chemistry Manufacturing Controls Senior Manager | $170,594 |
| Senior Principal Data Engineer | $170,000 |
| Health Economics & Outcomes Research Associate Director | $168,130 |
| Comm'l Data Mgmt & Field Optimization Associate Director | $165,750 |
| Manager, Quality Control | $165,537 |
| Commercial Analytics Associate Director | $164,900 |
| Quality Stnds, Training, & Improvements Senior Manager | $164,815 |
| Logistics & Distribution Senior Manager | $163,667 |
| Product Development Engineering Senior Scientist | $163,176 |
| Associate Director, Bioanalytical | $161,500 |
| Operations, Pricing, & Analytics Senior Manager | $161,500 |
| Process Chemistry Manager | $160,993 |
| Computational Genomics Senior Research Scientist | $160,000 |
| Pharmacology Senior Research Scientist | $159,500 |
| Gene Editing Senior Research Scientist | $159,157 |
| Senior Manager, Gene Editing Research | $159,157 |
| Cybersecurity Principal Analyst | $155,072 |
| Medicinal Chemistry Senior Research Scientist | $155,000 |
What the Data Says About Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
Signature stat: H-1B volume
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated's most extreme placement is sponsorship scale: 144 H-1B LCAs rank higher than 99% of sponsors in this corpus (#320 of 51,370).
No OSHA record despite scale
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated sponsors 144 H-1B positions but carries no employer OSHA DART rate here — at this filing volume the gap usually reflects recordkeeping exemptions, not a verified safety judgment.
No WARN filings
No WARN Act mass-layoff notices are on file for Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated among Professional & Technical Services employers we track.
Top-quartile disclosed pay
Disclosed pay runs high: $149,346 median beats 68% of credible wage rows and sits above the $124,488 national median.
Rising disclosed medians
Disclosed medians moved from $132,164 (FY2024) to $141,235 (FY2025) (+6.9%), weighted by this employer's own LCA rows — not a company-wide raise and not role-mix adjusted.
Where Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated sits
This employer among Professional & Technical Services H-1B peers
Across the 199 Professional & Technical Services sponsors in this corpus with both an H-1B filing count and a credible disclosed-wage median, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated files more petitions than 51% of them and discloses a higher median wage than 72%, the high-volume, above-median pay quadrant. Filing volume is hiring scale, not pay; the axes are independent DOL OFLC disclosures (144 filings · $149,346 median here).
Each muted dot is one professional & technical services peer from a filings-stratified sample of 40; the brand marker is Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. Source: DOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification H-1B LCA disclosures (credible wages recomputed from per-position filings, excluding parse errors above $500k).
How Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated compares to Professional & Technical Services peers
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated's nearest H-1B-filing peers in Professional & Technical Services (home state MA). Each card links to that employer's federal-records profile.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
144 H-1B filings
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS US CORP
8,624 H-1B filings
Google LLC
5,397 H-1B filings
Nationwide employers with similar H-1B volume or workplace injury rate
Two federal-records peer sets for Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, both outside MA so the neighborhoods are not the same-industry VsCard above.
Similar H-1B filing volume
Nearest nationwide sponsors outside MA (144 filings here).
- Brillio, LLC (NY) · 144 filings
- DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS (DC) · 144 filings
- PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC. (FL) · 144 filings
- Starbucks Coffee Company (WA) · 144 filings
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 Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
For Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, start with sponsorship pay (144 H-1B LCAs, median $149,346) and only then layer any other federal silence.
- H-1B median is $149,346 across 118 disclosed-wage positions (of 144 total filings), benchmark any offer against it and the metro prevailing wage. Compare with peers
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated'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
- COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS US CORP (TX) - 8,624 H-1B filings in the same Professional & Technical Services roster
- Google LLC (CA) - 5,397 H-1B filings in the same Professional & Technical Services roster
- INFOSYS LIMITED (TX) - 5,329 H-1B filings in the same Professional & Technical Services roster
- H-1B salary negotiation - using disclosed wages like Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated's when you negotiate.
- Compare employers - put Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated next to peers on pay, safety, and WARN.
- National H-1B & safety statistics - where Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated's #320 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 Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated's H-1B wage sit nationally?
Among 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows in this corpus, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated's disclosed median of $149,346 sits at the 68th 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 Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated's H-1B filing volume compare to other sponsors?
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated has 144 H-1B filings on record, ranking #320 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.
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
This profile is rendered directly from DOL H-1B disclosure filings, 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.