Metro area · AK
Anchorage, AK
Anchorage, AK is a Healthcare & Social Assistance-heavy labor market: 20 tracked employers at a $110,698 median H-1B wage across 56 LCAs.
- 20
- Employers
- $110,698
- Median H-1B wage
- 56
- H-1B filings
Anchorage, AK: 20 tracked employers at a $110,698 median H-1B wage across 56 LCAs; Healthcare & Social Assistance leads the local roster.
According to DOL OFLC H-1B disclosures, OSHA injury logs, and state WARN Act notices mapped to worksites in Anchorage, AK (AK), PlainEmployers rolls up 20 employers at a $110,698 disclosed median. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.
- 20 employers
- $110,698 median H-1B
- 56 H-1B LCAs
Where Anchorage, AK's median H-1B wage sits nationally
Metro median disclosed wage vs every credible H-1B wage row
$110,698 Top 61% higher than 39% of 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows
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
Anchorage, AK (20 employers) sits beside Fairbanks, AK, Nome, AK, Juneau, AK in AK's tracked roster. Open a peer metro to compare H-1B wage and WARN density. Among metros with employers in this corpus, Anchorage, AK ranks #564 of 6906 by employer count (about the 92nd percentile).
What the data says about Anchorage, AK
Corpus placement: Anchorage, AK ranks #564 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 92nd percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Healthcare & Social Assistance leads with 7 of 20 tracked employers (~35%); next sectors in the mix are Educational Services and Mining & Extraction. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: University of Alaska, Swift Technical Services, LLC, and Oil Search (Alaska) LLC (32 filings combined, ~57% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Anchorage, AK: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records.
Headline sponsors: University of Alaska, Swift Technical Services, LLC, and Oil Search (Alaska) LLC, together 32 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.
Anchorage, AK reads as a concentrated labor market: Healthcare & Social Assistance alone covers about 35% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.
University of Alaska plus Swift Technical Services, LLC account for about 57% of Anchorage, AK'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 Anchorage, AK in this corpus, a cleaner local stability read than metros where large sponsors have filed reductions.
Within AK, Anchorage, AK is among denser labor markets versus Fairbanks, AK (7 employers); Nome, AK (5 employers); Juneau, AK (3 employers); its median and mix are less likely to swing on a single filing.
Top employers in Anchorage, AK
| # | Employer | H-1B filings | Median wage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Alaska Educational Services | 21 | $109,335 |
| 2 | Swift Technical Services, LLC Administrative & Waste Services | 7 | $205,000 |
| 3 | Oil Search (Alaska) LLC Mining & Extraction | 4 | $250,000 |
| 4 | Nskhc, LLC | 4 | $300,000 |
| 5 | Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Healthcare & Social Assistance | 3 | - |
| 6 | Advanced Physical Therapy, Inc. Healthcare & Social Assistance | 2 | $100,880 |
| 7 | Cyberender LLC | 2 | $85,208 |
| 8 | Alaska Pacific Beverage Company LLC Manufacturing | 1 | $55,910 |
| 9 | Alaska Pacific University Educational Services | 1 | $55,000 |
| 10 | Beacon Occupational Health & Safety Services, Inc. Healthcare & Social Assistance | 1 | $273,664 |
| 11 | Brews Brothers, LLC Accommodation & Food Services | 1 | $95,915 |
| 12 | Bty Dental Group LLC Healthcare & Social Assistance | 1 | $93,246 |
| 13 | Cooperman Technology Inc Professional & Technical Services | 1 | $96,000 |
| 14 | MOH Financial LLC Finance & Insurance | 1 | $78,000 |
| 15 | Mountain View Health Services Healthcare & Social Assistance | 1 | $239,200 |
| 16 | Volunteers of America of Alaska Healthcare & Social Assistance | 1 | $80,000 |
| 17 | Jkd Brands LLC | 1 | $51,771 |
| 18 | Alaska Neonatology Associates, Inc. | 1 | $285,000 |
| 19 | AnTech Oilfield Services Inc Mining & Extraction | 1 | $128,960 |
| 20 | Providence Health & Services- Washington Healthcare & Social Assistance | 1 | $68,162 |
Sources, citation, and related links for Anchorage, AK
Disclaimer: The Anchorage, AK overview is informational only and is not professional advice. Consult a qualified professional before employment, hiring, or compliance decisions based on this data.
PlainEmployers renders Anchorage, AK 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.