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Ames, IA

Ames, IA is a Professional & Technical Services-heavy labor market: 15 tracked employers at a $87,135 median H-1B wage across 185 LCAs.

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15
Employers
$87,135
Median H-1B wage
185
H-1B filings

Ames, IA: 15 tracked employers at a $87,135 median H-1B wage across 185 LCAs; Professional & Technical Services leads the local roster.

According to DOL OFLC H-1B disclosures, OSHA injury logs, and state WARN Act notices mapped to worksites in Ames, IA (IA), PlainEmployers rolls up 15 employers at a $87,135 disclosed median. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.

  • 15 employers
  • $87,135 median H-1B
  • 185 H-1B LCAs

Where Ames, IA's median H-1B wage sits nationally

Metro median disclosed wage vs every credible H-1B wage row

$87,135 Top 83% higher than 17% of 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows

$0–$20,000: 1 credible H-1B wage rows (0%). Below this entry. $20,000–$40,000: 401 credible H-1B wage rows (0%). Below this entry. $40,000–$60,000: 7,591 credible H-1B wage rows (3%). Below this entry. $60,000–$80,000: 24,066 credible H-1B wage rows (9%). Below this entry. $80,000–$100,000: 43,829 credible H-1B wage rows (16%). This entry sits in this band. $100,000–$120,000: 49,740 credible H-1B wage rows (18%). Above this entry. $120,000–$140,000: 42,626 credible H-1B wage rows (16%). Above this entry. $140,000–$160,000: 33,306 credible H-1B wage rows (12%). Above this entry. $160,000–$180,000: 22,983 credible H-1B wage rows (8%). Above this entry. $180,000–$200,000: 15,711 credible H-1B wage rows (6%). Above this entry. $200,000–$220,000: 10,825 credible H-1B wage rows (4%). Above this entry. $220,000–$240,000: 6,806 credible H-1B wage rows (3%). Above this entry. $240,000–$260,000: 4,579 credible H-1B wage rows (2%). Above this entry. $260,000–$280,000: 2,975 credible H-1B wage rows (1%). Above this entry. $280,000–$300,000: 1,671 credible H-1B wage rows (1%). Above this entry. $300,000–$320,000: 5,015 credible H-1B wage rows (2%). Above this entry. Ames, IA $0 $320,000 every credible H-1B wage row, bucketed by value

Each bar is a $20K-wide band; taller bars hold more credible H-1B wage rows. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source DOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification, H-1B Disclosure Data · August 2026

Metro Labor Presence

Ames, IA (15 employers) sits beside Des Moines, IA, Cedar Rapids, IA, West Des Moines, IA in IA's tracked roster. Open a peer metro to compare H-1B wage and WARN density. Among metros with employers in this corpus, Ames, IA ranks #715 of 6906 by employer count (about the 89th percentile).

Des Moines, IA 52 Cedar Rapids, IA 33 West Des Moines, IA 27 Johnston, IA 15 Waukee, IA 11 Sioux City, IA 11
Top industries Professional & Technical ServicesHealthcare & Social AssistanceManufacturingEducational ServicesInformation & Media

What the data says about Ames, IA

Corpus placement: Ames, IA ranks #715 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 89th percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 6 of 15 tracked employers (~40%); next sectors in the mix are Healthcare & Social Assistance and Educational Services. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Aplomb Technologies INC, and Danfoss Power Solutions (US) Company (169 filings combined, ~91% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Ames, IA: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records.

Headline sponsors: Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Aplomb Technologies INC, and Danfoss Power Solutions (US) Company, together 169 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.

Ames, IA reads as a concentrated labor market: Professional & Technical Services alone covers about 40% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.

Iowa State University of Science and Technology plus Aplomb Technologies INC account for about 91% of Ames, IA's H-1B filings in this corpus, so local wage medians are sensitive to those sponsors' role mix.

No WARN Act mass-layoff notices are currently mapped to employers with a worksite in Ames, IA in this corpus, a cleaner local stability read than metros where large sponsors have filed reductions.

Same-state context for Ames, IA: Des Moines, IA (52 employers); Cedar Rapids, IA (33 employers); West Des Moines, IA (27 employers). Employer-count gaps between these metros are why a wage offer that looks high in one city can look ordinary in another.

Top employers in Ames, IA

# Employer H-1B filingsMedian wage
1 Iowa State University of Science and Technology Educational Services 120 $73,004
2 Aplomb Technologies INC Professional & Technical Services 40 $105,000
3 Danfoss Power Solutions (US) Company Manufacturing 9 $91,497
4 Globalvetlink, L.C. Professional & Technical Services 2 $108,498
5 Mary Greeley Medical Center Healthcare & Social Assistance 2 $63,045
6 Ames IT and Numeric Solutions 2 $82,000
7 McFarland Clinic, P.C. 2 $379,600
8 Minkasu, Inc. Professional & Technical Services 1 $111,114
9 Heartland Assays LLC Professional & Technical Services 1 $50,000
10 Panthera Vax, LLC Professional & Technical Services 1 $60,000
11 Video Analytica, INC Information & Media 1 $85,000
12 Kingland Systems, LLC 1 $144,456
13 Hope Found Inc. Healthcare & Social Assistance 1 $95,000
14 Intervet Inc. Professional & Technical Services 1 $42,600
15 BonCamel Inc. 1 $81,120
Sources, citation, and related links for Ames, IA

Disclaimer: The Ames, IA overview is informational only and is not professional advice. Consult a qualified professional before employment, hiring, or compliance decisions based on this data.

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PlainEmployers renders Ames, IA from DOL H-1B disclosure filings and OSHA Injury Tracking Application records, 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.