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Arlington, VA

Arlington, VA is a Professional & Technical Services-heavy labor market: 158 tracked employers at a $135,000 median H-1B wage across 8,428 LCAs.

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158
Employers
$135,000
Median H-1B wage
8,428
H-1B filings

Arlington, VA: 158 tracked employers at a $135,000 median H-1B wage across 8,428 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 Arlington, VA (VA), PlainEmployers rolls up 158 employers at a $135,000 disclosed median with 5 employers carrying WARN history. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.

  • 158 employers
  • $135,000 median H-1B
  • 8,428 H-1B LCAs
  • 5 WARN employers

Where Arlington, VA's median H-1B wage sits nationally

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

$135,000 Top 42% higher than 58% 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%). Below this entry. $100,000–$120,000: 49,740 credible H-1B wage rows (18%). Below this entry. $120,000–$140,000: 42,626 credible H-1B wage rows (16%). This entry sits in this band. $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. Arlington, VA $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

Arlington, VA (158 employers) sits beside Mclean, VA, Richmond, VA, Reston, VA in VA's tracked roster. Open a peer metro to compare H-1B wage and WARN density. Among metros with employers in this corpus, Arlington, VA ranks #68 of 6906 by employer count (about the 99th percentile).

Mclean, VA 250 Richmond, VA 204 Reston, VA 158 Herndon, VA 157 Ashburn, VA 153 Fairfax, VA 78
Top industries Professional & Technical ServicesOther ServicesInformation & MediaFinance & InsuranceUtilities

What the data says about Arlington, VA

Corpus placement: Arlington, VA ranks #68 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 99th percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 69 of 158 tracked employers (~44%); next sectors in the mix are Other Services and Information & Media. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: Amazon.com Services LLC, Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc., and Hexaware Technologies, Inc. (6,565 filings combined, ~78% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Arlington, VA: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records; state WARN Act layoff notices, including 5 employers with WARN history.

Headline sponsors: Amazon.com Services LLC, Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc., and Hexaware Technologies, Inc., together 6,565 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.

Arlington, VA reads as a concentrated labor market: Professional & Technical Services alone covers about 44% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.

Amazon.com Services LLC plus Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. account for about 78% of Arlington, VA'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 Arlington, VA, 5 carry WARN Act history (20 notices, about 1,643 workers named across credible filings). That is a local stability signal separate from H-1B hiring volume.

Same-state context for Arlington, VA: Mclean, VA (250 employers); Richmond, VA (204 employers); Reston, VA (158 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 Arlington, VA

5 tracked employers with a worksite here have filed 20 WARN notices , naming about 1,643 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 Arlington, VA

#EmployerH-1B filingsMedian wage
1Amazon.com Services LLC5,347$198,330
2Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.747$155,000
3Hexaware Technologies, Inc.Professional & Technical Services471$107,640
4Satin Solutions LLCProfessional & Technical Services150$98,400
5Nutanix, Inc.Information & Media125$186,142
6Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State UniversityEducational Services124$87,008
7Amazon Advertising LLCRetail Trade113$142,800
8Mastercard International IncorporatedFinance & Insurance90$138,000
9Northeastern UniversityEducational Services76$106,381
10Sapient CorporationProfessional & Technical Services75$151,966
11Illumina, Inc.Professional & Technical Services67$152,400
12George Mason UniversityEducational Services61$97,450
13M&T BankFinance & Insurance59$126,927
14Louisiana State University and A&M CollegeEducational Services47$79,144
15Black & Veatch Corporation37$111,072
16Fluence Energy, LLCUtilities33$186,813
17Softrams, LLCProfessional & Technical Services32$152,222
18General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.Professional & Technical Services30$145,000
19Sapot Systems, IncProfessional & Technical Services30$113,547
20Gartner, Inc.Professional & Technical Services29$145,694
21Willis Towers Watson US LLCProfessional & Technical Services28$155,575
22Venture Global LNG, Inc.Utilities26$220,000
23CoStar Realty Information Inc.Professional & Technical Services25$192,634
24PSA Airlines, Inc.Transportation & Warehousing24$351,000
25The Nature ConservancyOther Services24$89,000
Sources, citation, and related links for Arlington, VA

Disclaimer: The Arlington, VA 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 Arlington, VA 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.