Metro area · MI
Ann Arbor, MI
Ann Arbor, MI is a Professional & Technical Services-heavy labor market: 97 tracked employers at a $131,082 median H-1B wage across 2,069 LCAs.
- 97
- Employers
- $131,082
- Median H-1B wage
- 2,069
- H-1B filings
Ann Arbor, MI: 97 tracked employers at a $131,082 median H-1B wage across 2,069 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 Ann Arbor, MI (MI), PlainEmployers rolls up 97 employers at a $131,082 disclosed median with 2 employers carrying WARN history. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.
- 97 employers
- $131,082 median H-1B
- 2,069 H-1B LCAs
- 2 WARN employers
Where Ann Arbor, MI's median H-1B wage sits nationally
Metro median disclosed wage vs every credible H-1B wage row
$131,082 Top 44% higher than 56% 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
Ann Arbor, MI (97 employers) sits beside Troy, MI, Farmington Hills, MI, Detroit, MI in MI's tracked roster. Open a peer metro to compare H-1B wage and WARN density. Among metros with employers in this corpus, Ann Arbor, MI ranks #122 of 6906 by employer count (about the 98th percentile).
What the data says about Ann Arbor, MI
Corpus placement: Ann Arbor, MI ranks #122 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 98th percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 47 of 97 tracked employers (~48%); next sectors in the mix are Information & Media and Manufacturing. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: University of Michigan, The MathWorks, Inc., and Charles Schwab & Company, Inc. (1,164 filings combined, ~56% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Ann Arbor, MI: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records; state WARN Act layoff notices, including 2 employers with WARN history.
Headline sponsors: University of Michigan, The MathWorks, Inc., and Charles Schwab & Company, Inc., together 1,164 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.
Ann Arbor, MI reads as a concentrated labor market: Professional & Technical Services alone covers about 48% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.
University of Michigan plus The MathWorks, Inc. account for about 56% of Ann Arbor, MI's H-1B filings in this corpus, so local wage medians are sensitive to those sponsors' role mix.
Among employers with a worksite mapped to Ann Arbor, MI, 2 carry WARN Act history (2 notices, about 109 workers named across credible filings). That is a local stability signal separate from H-1B hiring volume.
Same-state context for Ann Arbor, MI: Troy, MI (158 employers); Farmington Hills, MI (149 employers); Detroit, MI (133 employers). Employer-count gaps between these metros are why a wage offer that looks high in one city can look ordinary in another.
WARN layoff activity in Ann Arbor, MI
2 tracked employers with a worksite here have filed 2 WARN notices , naming about 109 workers across credible records. Compare those employers' profiles before treating any local offer as stable; see largest WARN layoffs for corpus-wide notices.
Top employers in Ann Arbor, MI
| # | Employer | H-1B filings | Median wage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of MichiganEducational Services | 602 | $73,579 |
| 2 | The MathWorks, Inc.Information & Media | 296 | $131,508 |
| 3 | Charles Schwab & Company, Inc.Finance & Insurance | 266 | $155,995 |
| 4 | KLA CorporationManufacturing | 177 | $157,118 |
| 5 | Triad National Security, LLCProfessional & Technical Services | 95 | $154,462 |
| 6 | Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. (TEMA)Manufacturing | 63 | $188,467 |
| 7 | Yelp Inc.Information & Media | 37 | $245,500 |
| 8 | World Wide Technology Holding Company, LLCProfessional & Technical Services | 34 | $143,099 |
| 9 | TORC Robotics, Inc.Professional & Technical Services | 34 | $196,372 |
| 10 | Coupa Software, Inc.Information & Media | 25 | $156,210 |
| 11 | Woven by Toyota, U.S., Inc. | 23 | $185,880 |
| 12 | LER Product Design, LLC | 20 | $93,642 |
| 13 | Domino's Pizza, Inc.Accommodation & Food Services | 20 | $113,004 |
| 14 | BrightSharks Engineering Services LLCProfessional & Technical Services | 18 | $76,066 |
| 15 | Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc. | 17 | $145,000 |
| 16 | Compass Management Holdings, LLCInformation & Media | 17 | $197,497 |
| 17 | Sutherland Digital Services, INCProfessional & Technical Services | 15 | $108,701 |
| 18 | Honda Research Institute USA, Inc.Professional & Technical Services | 11 | $155,461 |
| 19 | Mapbox, Inc.Professional & Technical Services | 11 | $182,900 |
| 20 | Merative US LPProfessional & Technical Services | 11 | $187,622 |
| 21 | ProQuest LLCInformation & Media | 11 | $143,336 |
| 22 | Nexzentek Solutions, INC.Professional & Technical Services | 11 | $101,485 |
| 23 | Thomson Reuters Holdings Inc.Information & Media | 11 | $114,646 |
| 24 | Advaitaa Technologies, INC.Professional & Technical Services | 10 | $90,702 |
| 25 | Evolutyz CorpProfessional & Technical Services | 9 | $122,390 |
Sources, citation, and related links for Ann Arbor, MI
Disclaimer: The Ann Arbor, MI 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 Ann Arbor, MI from DOL H-1B disclosure filings, OSHA Injury Tracking Application records and state WARN Act layoff notices, 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.