Metro area · VA
Ashland, VA
Ashland, VA is a Professional & Technical Services-heavy labor market: 6 tracked employers at a $119,000 median H-1B wage across 90 LCAs.
- 6
- Employers
- $119,000
- Median H-1B wage
- 90
- H-1B filings
Ashland, VA: 6 tracked employers at a $119,000 median H-1B wage across 90 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 Ashland, VA (VA), PlainEmployers rolls up 6 employers at a $119,000 disclosed median. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.
- 6 employers
- $119,000 median H-1B
- 90 H-1B LCAs
Where Ashland, VA's median H-1B wage sits nationally
Metro median disclosed wage vs every credible H-1B wage row
$119,000 Top 54% higher than 46% 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
Ashland, VA (6 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, Ashland, VA ranks #1425 of 6906 by employer count (about the 77th percentile).
What the data says about Ashland, VA
Corpus placement: Ashland, VA ranks #1425 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 77th percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 4 of 6 tracked employers (~67%); next sectors in the mix are Educational Services and Finance & Insurance. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: John Hancock Life Insurance Company (USA), Lutron Electronics Co., Inc., and Easy Surfaces CORPORATION (68 filings combined, ~76% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Ashland, VA: DOL H-1B disclosure filings.
Headline sponsors: John Hancock Life Insurance Company (USA), Lutron Electronics Co., Inc., and Easy Surfaces CORPORATION, together 68 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.
Ashland, VA reads as a concentrated labor market: Professional & Technical Services alone covers about 67% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.
John Hancock Life Insurance Company (USA) plus Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. account for about 76% of Ashland, VA'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 Ashland, VA in this corpus, a cleaner local stability read than metros where large sponsors have filed reductions.
Within VA, Ashland, VA is smaller than peers such as Mclean, VA (250 employers); Richmond, VA (204 employers); Reston, VA (158 employers); use those pages when you need a denser local sponsor list.
Top employers in Ashland, VA
| # | Employer | H-1B filings | Median wage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John Hancock Life Insurance Company (USA)Finance & Insurance | 33 | $155,000 |
| 2 | Lutron Electronics Co., Inc.Manufacturing | 22 | $133,000 |
| 3 | Easy Surfaces CORPORATIONProfessional & Technical Services | 13 | $79,065 |
| 4 | Vypra IncProfessional & Technical Services | 10 | $101,421 |
| 5 | Mindspecs LLCProfessional & Technical Services | 9 | $102,045 |
| 6 | Hanover County Public SchoolsEducational Services | 2 | $52,291 |
| 7 | Gray Matter Systems LLCProfessional & Technical Services | 1 | $93,948 |
Sources, citation, and related links for Ashland, VA
Disclaimer: The Ashland, VA 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 Ashland, VA from DOL H-1B disclosure filings, 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.