Transportation & Warehousing

For Transportation & Warehousing (NAICS 48), 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 19,921 mapped employers and 11,715 H-1B filings at a $155,000 median disclosed wage. Read the sector numbers first, then judge any one employer against them.

Corpus placement: Transportation & Warehousing ranks #6 of 22 industries by total H-1B filings (about the 73rd percentile). Largest indexed sponsors: Apple Inc., Amazon.com Services LLC, Amazon.Com Services LLC inside a 11,715-filing sector roster. Safety inventory: sector average DART is 3.83 across 63 employers with ITA rates; 26 employers carry both H-1B volume and a DART figure for the dual-axis chart below. Sponsorship intensity averages ~1 filing per tracked employer under NAICS 48.

Transportation & Warehousing's $155,000 median comes from position-level H-1B disclosures across 19,921 employers (1 filings per employer on average).

Transportation & Warehousing's 3.83 average DART (injuries per 100 FTE with days away/restricted/transfer) sits on the higher-injury side of sectors we track: an employer near that mark is ordinary here, not automatically a red flag.

Sponsorship intensity in Transportation & Warehousing averages about 1 H-1B filing per tracked employer, placing the sector around the 73rd percentile of industries by total filings.

Transportation & Warehousing totals combine every employer mapped to this primary activity: a high sector total does not mean Apple 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.