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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.

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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

$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%). This entry sits in this band. $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. Ashland, 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

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).

Mclean, VA 250 Richmond, VA 204 Reston, VA 158 Arlington, VA 158 Herndon, VA 157 Ashburn, VA 153
Top industries Professional & Technical ServicesEducational ServicesManufacturing

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 filingsMedian 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 CORPORATION Professional & Technical Services 13 $79,065
4 Vypra Inc Professional & Technical Services 10 $101,421
5 Mindspecs LLC Professional & Technical Services 9 $102,045
6 Hanover County Public Schools Educational Services 2 $52,291
7 Gray Matter Systems LLC Professional & 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.

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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.