Industry sector · NAICS 54
Professional & Technical Services
H-1B wages, OSHA safety and layoff activity across 19,405 employers in Professional & Technical Services.
- 19,405
- Employers
- $113,975
- Median H-1B wage
- 106,718
- H-1B filings
The sector at a glance
According to U.S. Department of Labor and OSHA filings, Professional & Technical Services spans 19,405 tracked employers, with a $113,975 median H-1B wage and 106,718 H-1B filings on record, against an average DART injury rate of 0.93. Among industries with H-1B volume in this corpus, Professional & Technical Services ranks #1 of 22 (about the 95th percentile by total filings).
- 19,405
- employers
- $113,975
- median H-1B wage
- 106,718
- H-1B filings
- 0.93
- avg DART injury rate
What the data says about Professional & Technical Services
For Professional & Technical Services (NAICS 54), 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 19,405 mapped employers and 106,718 H-1B filings at a $113,975 median disclosed wage. Read the sector numbers first, then judge any one employer against them.
Corpus placement: Professional & Technical Services ranks #1 of 22 industries by total H-1B filings (about the 95th percentile). Largest indexed sponsors: Cognizant Technology Solutions US CORP, Google LLC, Infosys Limited inside a 106,718-filing sector roster. Safety inventory: sector average DART is 0.93 across 9 employers with ITA rates; 9 employers carry both H-1B volume and a DART figure for the dual-axis chart below. Sponsorship intensity averages ~5 filings per tracked employer under NAICS 54.
Professional & Technical Services's 0.93 average DART is on the lower-injury side of the corpus; an employer well above that mark is a clearer outlier than the same rate would be in a high-DART sector.
Largest indexed sponsors in Professional & Technical Services: Cognizant Technology Solutions US CORP, Google LLC, Infosys Limited. 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.
Professional & Technical Services totals combine every employer mapped to this primary activity: a high sector total does not mean Cognizant Technology Solutions US CORP 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.
Top employers in Professional & Technical Services
| # | Employer | H-1B filings | Median wage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cognizant Technology Solutions US CORPTX | 8,624 | $113,797 |
| 2 | Google LLCCA | 5,397 | $193,915 |
| 3 | Infosys LimitedTX | 5,329 | $92,581 |
| 4 | Tata Consultancy Services LimitedMD | 4,713 | $91,874 |
| 5 | Deloitte Consulting LLPPA | 3,416 | $147,803 |
| 6 | Ernst & Young U.S. LLPNJ | 2,873 | $171,258 |
| 7 | Compunnel Software Group, INCNJ | 2,300 | $113,000 |
| 8 | Capgemini America INCIL | 2,299 | $131,748 |
| 9 | Accenture LLPIL | 2,270 | $148,700 |
| 10 | Hcl America INCCA | 2,254 | $123,594 |
| 11 | Wipro LimitedNJ | 1,945 | $111,173 |
| 12 | LTIMindtree LimitedNJ | 1,780 | $100,798 |
| 13 | Salesforce, Inc.CA | 1,752 | $201,047 |
| 14 | IBM CorporationNC | 1,558 | $157,316 |
| 15 | Mphasis CorporationNY | 1,434 | $120,000 |
| 16 | Adobe Inc.CA | 1,071 | $177,064 |
| 17 | Randstad Digital, LLCMA | 791 | $132,000 |
| 18 | Tech Mahindra (Americas) Inc.NJ | 785 | $115,170 |
| 19 | Uber Technologies, Inc.CA | 734 | $199,800 |
| 20 | Pricewaterhousecoopers Advisory Services LLCFL | 690 | $186,000 |
| 21 | CGI Technologies and Solutions Inc.VA | 661 | $112,377 |
| 22 | Intuit Inc.CA | 652 | $179,421 |
| 23 | Ust Global INCCA | 615 | $112,028 |
| 24 | Infinite Computer Solutions, Inc.MD | 579 | $110,000 |
| 25 | ServiceNow, Inc.CA | 579 | $165,096 |
H-1B filing volume vs. OSHA safety rate in Professional & Technical Services
What this means for Professional & Technical Services jobseekers
Professional & Technical Services's $113,975 median sits beside a lower-injury 0.93 DART peer group; a high-DART employer here is a sharper outlier.
- An employer paying well below Professional & Technical Services's $113,975 median is worth a second look: compare peers directly. Compare employers
- A DART above 0.93 runs hotter than the Professional & Technical Services norm; read the letter grade in that context. How grades work
- H-1B pay for Professional & Technical Services roles still hinges on metro prevailing wage: open the worksite city's metro page for the same occupation. Browse metros
Professional & Technical Services totals map employers by primary NAICS; multi-sector firms count once, so a busy conglomerate can look smaller here than its full footprint.
PlainEmployers renders Professional & Technical Services directly from DOL H-1B disclosure filings, OSHA Injury Tracking Application records, and WARN Act layoff notices, no number is typed in by an editor. Professional & Technical Services's rollup combines every employer record mapped to this sector; no figure 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.