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Berkeley, CA

Berkeley, CA rolls up 91 employers with DOL/OSHA/WARN filings and a $143,500 median H-1B wage; Professional & Technical Services currently leads the local roster.

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91
Employers
$143,500
Median H-1B wage
1,699
H-1B filings

Berkeley, CA: 91 tracked employers at a $143,500 median H-1B wage across 1,699 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 Berkeley, CA (CA), PlainEmployers rolls up 91 employers at a $143,500 disclosed median with 2 employers carrying WARN history. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.

  • 91 employers
  • $143,500 median H-1B
  • 1,699 H-1B LCAs
  • 2 WARN employers

Where Berkeley, CA's median H-1B wage sits nationally

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

$143,500 Top 36% higher than 64% 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%). Below this entry. $140,000–$160,000: 33,306 credible H-1B wage rows (12%). This entry sits in this band. $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. Berkeley, CA $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

Berkeley, CA (91 employers) sits beside San Francisco, CA, Los Angeles, CA, San Jose, CA in CA's tracked roster. Open a peer metro to compare H-1B wage and WARN density. Among metros with employers in this corpus, Berkeley, CA ranks #130 of 6906 by employer count (about the 98th percentile).

San Francisco, CA 1,764 Los Angeles, CA 836 San Jose, CA 778 San Diego, CA 495 Irvine, CA 454 Santa Clara, CA 405
Top industries Professional & Technical ServicesManufacturingHealthcare & Social AssistanceEducational ServicesOther Services

What the data says about Berkeley, CA

Corpus placement: Berkeley, CA ranks #130 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 98th percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 29 of 91 tracked employers (~32%); next sectors in the mix are Manufacturing and Healthcare & Social Assistance. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: Amazon.Com Services LLC, University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1,097 filings combined, ~65% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Berkeley, CA: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records; state WARN Act layoff notices, including 2 employers with WARN history.

Headline sponsors: Amazon.Com Services LLC, University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, together 1,097 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.

Among employers with a worksite mapped to Berkeley, CA, 2 carry WARN Act history (3 notices, about 421 workers named across credible filings). That is a local stability signal separate from H-1B hiring volume.

Within CA, Berkeley, CA is smaller than peers such as San Francisco, CA (1,764 employers); Los Angeles, CA (836 employers); San Jose, CA (778 employers); use those pages when you need a denser local sponsor list.

WARN layoff activity in Berkeley, CA

2 tracked employers with a worksite here have filed 3 WARN notices , naming about 421 workers across credible records. Compare those employers' profiles before treating any local offer as stable; see largest WARN layoffs for corpus-wide notices.

Employer mix in Berkeley, CA

Which sectors the metro's tracked employers operate in

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What this shows Professional & Technical Services leads Berkeley, CA at ~32% of employers, with 6 other sectors still material in the mix.

Source DOL H-1B, OSHA & WARN filings mapped to NAICS sector

Top employers in Berkeley, CA

#EmployerH-1B filingsMedian wage
1Amazon.Com Services LLCTransportation & Warehousing737$170,012
2University of California, BerkeleyEducational Services195$92,564
3Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryProfessional & Technical Services165$128,170
4Howard Hughes Medical InstituteProfessional & Technical Services148$83,513
5University of Notre Dame du LacEducational Services90$81,869
6Siemens CorporationFinance & Insurance45$150,000
7Kent State UniversityEducational Services44$71,261
8Msci, INC.Finance & Insurance40$86,700
9HDR Architecture, Inc.Professional & Technical Services20$130,000
10Bayer HealthCare LLCManufacturing15$157,730
11Bayer U.S. LLC15$162,606
12Locally Compact, Inc.Finance & Insurance11$165,002
13Hs Solutions INCProfessional & Technical Services9$116,462
14Form Energy, Inc.Professional & Technical Services9$176,000
15SiFive, Inc.Manufacturing8$174,432
16Typical Set, LLCProfessional & Technical Services7$207,487
17Inpatient Specialists of California, P.C.Healthcare & Social Assistance7$311,275
18Atomic Machines, Inc.Professional & Technical Services6$156,577
19Liberate Innovations, Inc.6$182,500
20TotalEnergies Renewables USA, LLCUtilities6$130,673
21FAR AI, Inc.Professional & Technical Services5$225,000
22Model Evaluation and Threat Research Inc.Professional & Technical Services5$236,312
23Centre for Effective Altruism USA Inc.Other Services4$75,688
24International Computer Science InstituteProfessional & Technical Services4$88,868
25The Realreal, INC.Retail Trade4$225,000
Sources, citation, and related links for Berkeley, CA

Disclaimer: The Berkeley, CA 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 Berkeley, CA 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.