Manufacturing

For Manufacturing (NAICS 31), PlainEmployers answers the sector-level question a single employer profile cannot: is what you see at one company normal for this industry, or an outlier? The figures below aggregate DOL H-1B disclosures, OSHA injury records, and WARN notices across 58,162 mapped employers and 18,802 H-1B filings at a $130,410 median disclosed wage. Read the sector numbers first, then judge any one employer against them.

Corpus placement: Manufacturing ranks #5 of 22 industries by total H-1B filings (about the 77th percentile). Largest indexed sponsors: Tesla, Inc., Intel Corporation, NVIDIA Corporation inside a 18,802-filing sector roster. Safety inventory: sector average DART is 2.32 across 60 employers with ITA rates; 26 employers carry both H-1B volume and a DART figure for the dual-axis chart below.

Manufacturing's $130,410 median comes from position-level H-1B disclosures across 58,162 employers (0 filings per employer on average).

Largest indexed sponsors in Manufacturing: Tesla, Inc., Intel Corporation, NVIDIA Corporation. Open each profile for salary mix, OSHA grade, and WARN history, then check the metro page for the same role, because prevailing wage is metro-occupation specific.

Sponsorship intensity in Manufacturing averages about 0 H-1B filings per tracked employer, placing the sector around the 77th percentile of industries by total filings.

Manufacturing totals combine every employer mapped to this primary activity: a high sector total does not mean Tesla, Inc. or its peers are cutting jobs, and a low total does not rule out layoffs at individual firms. Multi-sector companies are counted once under their primary NAICS. Treat these aggregates as the starting yardstick, then drill into the individual employer records and source filings before drawing conclusions.