H-1B Filings
264
Major sponsor. DOL labor condition applications on file.
Manufacturing CA DOL H-1B OSHA ITA WARN Act
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.: Full Federal Profile
Western Digital Technologies, Inc. in CA (Manufacturing) shows all three federal tracks on this profile: 264 H-1B LCAs, an employer OSHA injury record, and 7 WARN notices.
Western Digital Technologies, Inc. (CA): · 264 H-1B LCAs at a $147,368 disclosed median · OSHA Grade B (DART 0.43) · 7 WARN notices
According to DOL OFLC H-1B disclosures, OSHA ITA injury logs, and state WARN Act notices, Western Digital Technologies, Inc. in CA carries 264 H-1B wage filings on record, a $147,368 median wage across 159 disclosed-wage positions (above the $124,488 national median), a solid B OSHA safety grade and 7 WARN layoff notices on file. Every figure is a federal filing, not an estimate; see methodology for coverage limits.
- 264 H-1B LCAs
- $147,368 median wage
- Grade B OSHA
- 7 WARN
Layoff & federal record
Compared with the rest of PlainEmployers' federal employer corpus, H-1B filing volume ranks #163 of 51,370 sponsors in this corpus (about the 100th percentile), and disclosed median wage sits at the 67th percentile of 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows.
- 100th pct
- H-1B filing rank
- 67th pct
- median wage rank
- 60%
- 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.
C-
Federal workforce composite
53/100
4 of 4 federal tracks · Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
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+
264 H-1B LCAs
#163 of 51,370 sponsors · 100th percentile by volume (DOL OFLC)
Disclosed pay B-
$147,368 median
67th percentile of 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows
Workplace safety C+
OSHA Grade B · DART 0.43
Safer than 60% of 214,554 employers with an OSHA ITA record
Layoff stability F
7 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
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.'s disclosed H-1B petition count fell from 93 in FY2024 to 77 in FY2025 (-17.2%).
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.'s filing-count-weighted median disclosed H-1B wage fell from $148,605 in FY2024 to $132,446 in FY2025 (-10.9%).
Median H-1B Salary
$147,368
Above national median. Across 159 disclosed positions
OSHA Safety Grade
Grade B · DART 0.43
Safer than industry average. vs 0.77 same 2-digit NAICS sector (OSHA ITA 2022–2023, hours-weighted)
WARN Workforce Impact
588 workers
Less stable than most peers. 7 WARN Act notices on file
Where Western Digital Technologies, Inc.'s H-1B wage sits nationally
Median disclosed wage vs. all US employers with H-1B filings
$147,368 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
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.'s H-1B median wage, FY2024 vs FY2025
Filing-count-weighted median across this employer's own disclosed H-1B positions (-10.9% 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 | Western Digital Technologies, Inc. | DOL OFLC / OSHA / WARN |
| Industry | Manufacturing | NAICS / DOL |
| State | CA | U.S. Federal Records |
| H-1B Filings | 264 | DOL OFLC LCA Disclosure |
| H-1B Median Salary | $147,368 | DOL OFLC LCA Disclosure |
| OSHA Safety Grade | B | OSHA ITA |
| OSHA DART Rate | 0.43 | OSHA ITA Establishment Records |
| WARN Layoff Notices | 7 notice(s), 588 workers | WARN Act notices, state workforce agency originals (archival backstop: LayoffData.com) |
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.'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 #163 of 51,370 sponsors in this corpus (about the 100th percentile); disclosed median wage sits at the 67th percentile of 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows; OSHA DART rate is safer than roughly 60% of 214,554 employers with an establishment injury record.
H-1B Salary Data
| Job Title | Median |
|---|---|
| Director, Investor Relations | $233,621 |
| Director, Investor Relations | $233,621 |
| Senior Manager, Information Technology | $233,300 |
| Senior Manager, Data Analytics | $225,962 |
| Director, Data Analytics Engineering | $214,100 |
| Manager 5, Strategic Sourcing | $210,400 |
| Senior Director, Corporate Strategy | $206,600 |
| Manager, Finance | $203,539 |
| Director, Business Applications | $201,323 |
| Director, Business Applications | $201,323 |
| Technologist, Firmware Engineering | $201,323 |
| Technologist, Firmware Engineering | $201,323 |
| Senior Manager, Development Engineering | $201,262 |
| Senior Manager, Development Engineering | $201,262 |
| Technologist, Test Development Engineering | $196,301 |
| Technologist, Test Development Engineering | $196,301 |
| Principal Engineer, R&D Engineering | $194,336 |
| Analyst 5, IT Security | $185,364 |
| Analyst 5, Data Analytics | $184,805 |
| Scientist 3, Data Science | $180,892 |
| Principal Engineer, Software Development Engineering (Embedd | $179,759 |
| Principal Engineer, Hardware Development Engineering | $178,651 |
| Principal Engineer, Hardware Development Engineering | $178,651 |
| Developer 5, Programming | $178,320 |
| Principal Engineer, Hardware Development Engineering | $172,998 |
| Staff Developer, Software Development (Sys) | $172,784 |
| Staff Developer, Software Development (Sys) | $172,784 |
| Principal Engineer, Test Engineering | $172,000 |
| Staff Engineer, R&D Engineering | $170,904 |
| Analyst 4, Business Applications | $169,328 |
| Analyst 4, Business Applications | $169,328 |
| Analyst 4, Business Applications | $169,328 |
| Staff Engineer, R&D Engineering | $168,277 |
| Staff Engineer, Hardware Development Engineering | $167,151 |
| Senior Manager, Product Management | $166,962 |
| Senior Manager, Program Management | $166,962 |
| Staff Engineer, Mechanical Design Engineering | $166,125 |
| Analyst 4, Business Application | $164,326 |
| Analyst 4, Business Application | $164,326 |
| Analyst 4, Business Applications | $164,326 |
| Analyst 4, Business Applications | $164,326 |
| Principal Engineer, ASIC Development Engineering | $163,872 |
| Senior Manager, Information Technology | $163,550 |
| Principal Engineer, Product Engineering | $163,061 |
| Principal Engineer, Product Development Engineering | $162,760 |
| Principal Engineer, Product Development Engineering | $162,760 |
| Principal Engineer, Product Engineering | $162,760 |
| Principal Engineer, Product Engineering | $162,760 |
| Staff Engineer, Hardware Development Engineering | $162,344 |
| Principal Engineer, Firmware Engineering | $160,638 |
What the Data Says About Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Signature stat: H-1B volume
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.'s most extreme placement is sponsorship scale: 264 H-1B LCAs rank higher than 100% of sponsors in this corpus (#163 of 51,370).
WARN layoff history
7 WARN notices naming about 588 workers are on file in CA. Multiple notices can reflect consolidations — read them beside sponsorship and safety signals.
Falling disclosed medians
Disclosed medians moved from $148,605 (FY2024) to $132,446 (FY2025) (-10.9%), weighted by this employer's own LCA rows — not a company-wide raise and not role-mix adjusted.
Top-quartile disclosed pay
Disclosed pay runs high: $147,368 median beats 67% of credible wage rows and sits above the $124,488 national median.
Safety near sector average
DART 0.4 tracks close to the 0.8 sector average (Grade B).
Dual-track profile
Western Digital Technologies, Inc. is one of the rarer profiles carrying both sponsorship volume (264 H-1B LCAs) and WARN history (7 notices) in the same public record (Manufacturing) in CA. Weigh those signals separately.
Shrinking LCA footprint
FY2025 filings fell 17.2% from FY2024 (93 → 77).
OSHA Safety Record
Grade B DART Rate: 0.43 (same-NAICS-sector avg: 0.77)
This employer DART rate (lower is safer)
Same NAICS-sector average
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.'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: 34.
Where Western Digital Technologies, Inc. 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, Western Digital Technologies, Inc. files more petitions than 93% of them and discloses a higher median wage than 61%, the high-volume, above-median pay quadrant. Filing volume is hiring scale, not pay; the axes are independent DOL OFLC disclosures (264 filings · $147,368 median here).
Each muted dot is one manufacturing peer from a filings-stratified sample of 41; the brand marker is Western Digital Technologies, Inc.. Source: DOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification H-1B LCA disclosures (credible wages recomputed from per-position filings, excluding parse errors above $500k).
How Western Digital Technologies, Inc. compares to Manufacturing peers
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.'s nearest H-1B-filing peers in Manufacturing (home state CA). Each card links to that employer's federal-records profile.
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
264 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 Western Digital Technologies, Inc., both outside CA so the neighborhoods are not the same-industry VsCard above.
Similar H-1B filing volume
Nearest nationwide sponsors outside CA (264 filings here).
- Micron Technology, Inc. (ID) · 263 filings
- UT-BATTELLE, LLC (OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY) (TN) · 263 filings
- Charles Schwab & Company, Inc. (TX) · 266 filings
- MSR TECHNOLOGY GROUP LLC (DE) · 266 filings
Similar OSHA DART rate
Nearest injury-rate peers outside CA (DART 0.43 here).
- Agripower, Inc. (TN) · DART 0.43
- America's Home Place, Inc. (GA) · DART 0.43
- Ardent Health (TX) · DART 0.43
- Bacardi Bottling Corporation (FL) · DART 0.43
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 |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 47 |
| 2026-01-21 | 87 |
| 2016-08-25 | 59 |
| 2015-09-10 | 143 |
| 2015-08-21 | 81 |
| 2015-08-21 | 56 |
| 2015-04-20 | 115 |
What to check before working with Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Western Digital Technologies, Inc. needs a three-way read: H-1B pay (264 LCAs), safety (grade B), and WARN history (7 notices); none of those alone is the rating.
- H-1B median is $147,368 across 159 disclosed-wage positions (of 264 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 Manufacturing average of 0.77 - a relative benchmark, not an absolute verdict. How grades work
- 7 WARN layoff notices on file, review the timing before counting on job stability. Reading WARN notices
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.'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 Western Digital Technologies, Inc.'s OSHA DART read is graded against its sector.
- Reading WARN notices - what Western Digital Technologies, Inc.'s layoff filings do and do not prove.
- H-1B salary negotiation - using disclosed wages like Western Digital Technologies, Inc.'s when you negotiate.
- Compare employers - put Western Digital Technologies, Inc. next to peers on pay, safety, and WARN.
- National H-1B & safety statistics - where Western Digital Technologies, Inc.'s #163 placement sits in the full federal roster.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Where does Western Digital Technologies, Inc.'s H-1B wage sit nationally?
Among 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows in this corpus, Western Digital Technologies, Inc.'s disclosed median of $147,368 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 Western Digital Technologies, Inc.'s H-1B filing volume compare to other sponsors?
Western Digital Technologies, Inc. has 264 H-1B filings on record, ranking #163 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 Western Digital Technologies, Inc.'s OSHA safety grade mean?
Western Digital Technologies, Inc. carries Grade B from its establishment injury record (34 injuries on file; DART 0.43). That DART rate is safer than roughly 60% of 214,554 employers with an injury record in this corpus. Grades compare DART against industry averages, see the Interpreting Safety Grades guide.
Does Western Digital Technologies, Inc. have WARN layoff notices on file?
Yes - 7 WARN Act notices affecting about 588 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.