Retail Trade

For Retail Trade (NAICS 44), 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 18,501 mapped employers and 6,016 H-1B filings at a $145,000 median disclosed wage. Read the sector numbers first, then judge any one employer against them.

Corpus placement: Retail Trade ranks #8 of 22 industries by total H-1B filings (about the 64th percentile). Largest indexed sponsors: Wal-Mart Associates, INC., eBay Inc., CVS Pharmacy Inc. inside a 6,016-filing sector roster. Safety inventory: sector average DART is 2.67 across 28 employers with ITA rates; 26 employers carry both H-1B volume and a DART figure for the dual-axis chart below.

Retail Trade's $145,000 median comes from position-level H-1B disclosures across 18,501 employers (0 filings per employer on average).

Largest indexed sponsors in Retail Trade: Wal-Mart Associates, INC., eBay Inc., CVS Pharmacy Inc.. 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 Retail Trade averages about 0 H-1B filings per tracked employer, placing the sector around the 64th percentile of industries by total filings.

Retail Trade totals combine every employer mapped to this primary activity: a high sector total does not mean Wal-Mart Associates, 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.