Metro area · MA
Bedford, MA
Bedford, MA is a Professional & Technical Services-heavy labor market: 28 tracked employers at a $122,848 median H-1B wage across 701 LCAs.
- 28
- Employers
- $122,848
- Median H-1B wage
- 701
- H-1B filings
Bedford, MA: 28 tracked employers at a $122,848 median H-1B wage across 701 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 Bedford, MA (MA), PlainEmployers rolls up 28 employers at a $122,848 disclosed median with 2 employers carrying WARN history. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.
- 28 employers
- $122,848 median H-1B
- 701 H-1B LCAs
- 2 WARN employers
Where Bedford, MA's median H-1B wage sits nationally
Metro median disclosed wage vs every credible H-1B wage row
$122,848 Top 51% higher than 49% 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
Bedford, MA (28 employers) sits beside Boston, MA, Cambridge, MA, Waltham, MA in MA's tracked roster. Open a peer metro to compare H-1B wage and WARN density. Among metros with employers in this corpus, Bedford, MA ranks #427 of 6906 by employer count (about the 94th percentile).
What the data says about Bedford, MA
Corpus placement: Bedford, MA ranks #427 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 94th percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 16 of 28 tracked employers (~57%); next sectors in the mix are Manufacturing and Healthcare & Social Assistance. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc., and Guidewire Software, Inc. (438 filings combined, ~62% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Bedford, MA: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records; state WARN Act layoff notices, including 2 employers with WARN history.
Headline sponsors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc., and Guidewire Software, Inc., together 438 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.
Bedford, MA reads as a concentrated labor market: Professional & Technical Services alone covers about 57% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology plus Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc. account for about 62% of Bedford, MA'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 Bedford, MA, 2 carry WARN Act history (3 notices, about 533 workers named across credible filings). That is a local stability signal separate from H-1B hiring volume.
Within MA, Bedford, MA is smaller than peers such as Boston, MA (762 employers); Cambridge, MA (282 employers); Waltham, MA (120 employers); use those pages when you need a denser local sponsor list.
WARN layoff activity in Bedford, MA
2 tracked employers with a worksite here have filed 3 WARN notices , naming about 533 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 Bedford, MA
| # | Employer | H-1B filings | Median wage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyEducational Services | 219 | $80,784 |
| 2 | Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc.Finance & Insurance | 148 | $129,300 |
| 3 | Guidewire Software, Inc.Information & Media | 71 | $172,214 |
| 4 | Emd Millipore CORPORATIONProfessional & Technical Services | 28 | $140,000 |
| 5 | University of Massachusetts DartmouthEducational Services | 27 | $86,195 |
| 6 | Irobot CORPORATIONProfessional & Technical Services | 25 | $127,537 |
| 7 | Ustring Solutions LLCProfessional & Technical Services | 23 | $80,000 |
| 8 | Edgile LLCProfessional & Technical Services | 17 | $198,933 |
| 9 | Eliquent Life Sciences, IncProfessional & Technical Services | 15 | $101,406 |
| 10 | Digital Masters IncProfessional & Technical Services | 14 | $100,800 |
| 11 | Berkshire Grey INC.Professional & Technical Services | 14 | $143,500 |
| 12 | Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc.Manufacturing | 12 | $170,000 |
| 13 | Strategic Solutions Group, LLCProfessional & Technical Services | 12 | $155,000 |
| 14 | Ice Data Connectivity & Feeds INC.Finance & Insurance | 9 | $139,289 |
| 15 | Novanta CorporationManufacturing | 8 | $93,600 |
| 16 | MannKind CorporationProfessional & Technical Services | 7 | $154,274 |
| 17 | Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc.Manufacturing | 7 | $117,250 |
| 18 | AspenTech CorporationProfessional & Technical Services | 6 | $190,058 |
| 19 | Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.Manufacturing | 6 | $179,000 |
| 20 | Instrumentation Laboratory CompanyWholesale Trade | 5 | $128,734 |
| 21 | Southcoast Physicians Group, Inc.Healthcare & Social Assistance | 5 | $320,000 |
| 22 | Dental Dreams LLCHealthcare & Social Assistance | 4 | $122,678 |
| 23 | Anika Therapeutics, Inc.Manufacturing | 2 | $112,819 |
| 24 | Obsidian Therapeutics, Inc.Professional & Technical Services | 2 | $110,000 |
| 25 | Spectrawave, INC.Manufacturing | 2 | $137,586 |
Sources, citation, and related links for Bedford, MA
Disclaimer: The Bedford, MA 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 Bedford, MA 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.