Metro area · NY
Buffalo, NY
Buffalo, NY spreads H-1B hiring across 7+ sectors (104 employers, $125,000 median wage) rather than one dominant NAICS group.
- 104
- Employers
- $125,000
- Median H-1B wage
- 1,441
- H-1B filings
Buffalo, NY: 104 tracked employers at a $125,000 median H-1B wage across 1,441 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 Buffalo, NY (NY), PlainEmployers rolls up 104 employers at a $125,000 disclosed median with 1 employers carrying WARN history. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.
- 104 employers
- $125,000 median H-1B
- 1,441 H-1B LCAs
- 1 WARN employers
Where Buffalo, NY's median H-1B wage sits nationally
Metro median disclosed wage vs every credible H-1B wage row
$125,000 Top 50% higher than 50% of 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows
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Source DOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification, H-1B Disclosure Data · August 2026
Metro Labor Presence
Buffalo, NY (104 employers) sits beside New York, NY, Brooklyn, NY, Long Island City, NY in NY's tracked roster. Open a peer metro to compare H-1B wage and WARN density. Among metros with employers in this corpus, Buffalo, NY ranks #113 of 6906 by employer count (about the 98th percentile).
What the data says about Buffalo, NY
Corpus placement: Buffalo, NY ranks #113 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 98th percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 25 of 104 tracked employers (~24%); next sectors in the mix are Healthcare & Social Assistance and Finance & Insurance. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: Virtusa CORPORATION, PwC US Consulting LLP, and HM Health Solutions, Inc. (691 filings combined, ~48% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Buffalo, NY: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records; state WARN Act layoff notices, including 1 employers with WARN history.
Buffalo, NY reads as a diversified labor market: the lead sector (Professional & Technical Services) is only ~24% of tracked employers across 7 named industries, so no single NAICS group dominates the local picture.
Same-state context for Buffalo, NY: New York, NY (4,740 employers); Brooklyn, NY (675 employers); Long Island City, NY (156 employers). Employer-count gaps between these metros are why a wage offer that looks high in one city can look ordinary in another.
Employer mix in Buffalo, NY
Which sectors the metro's tracked employers operate in
- Professional & Technical S…
Professional & Technical Services
25 employers
- Healthcare & Social Assist…
Healthcare & Social Assistance
24 employers
- Finance & Insurance 8
Finance & Insurance
8 employers
- Manufacturing 6
Manufacturing
6 employers
- Educational Services 5
Educational Services
5 employers
- Other Services 2
Other Services
2 employers
- Public Administration 2
Public Administration
2 employers
What this shows Buffalo, NY has no runaway sector: Professional & Technical Services leads at only ~24% across 7 named industries.
Top employers in Buffalo, NY
| # | Employer | H-1B filings | Median wage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Virtusa CORPORATIONProfessional & Technical Services | 517 | $125,530 |
| 2 | PwC US Consulting LLPProfessional & Technical Services | 113 | $168,500 |
| 3 | HM Health Solutions, Inc.Finance & Insurance | 61 | $119,079 |
| 4 | M&T BankFinance & Insurance | 59 | $126,927 |
| 5 | MediaTek USA Inc.Professional & Technical Services | 44 | $182,500 |
| 6 | University Corporation for Atmospheric ResearchProfessional & Technical Services | 37 | $100,971 |
| 7 | International Business Machines CORPORATIONProfessional & Technical Services | 32 | $100,469 |
| 8 | London Stock Exchange Group Holdings, Inc.Finance & Insurance | 31 | $170,000 |
| 9 | State University Of New York At BuffaloEducational Services | 26 | $88,498 |
| 10 | New York Power AuthorityPublic Administration | 24 | $169,038 |
| 11 | Curia Global, Inc.Manufacturing | 21 | $94,442 |
| 12 | Bruce W. Carter Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center | 20 | $84,383 |
| 13 | HSBC Technology & Services (USA) Inc. | 20 | $157,307 |
| 14 | Health Research Inc. - Roswell Park DivisionProfessional & Technical Services | 20 | $78,300 |
| 15 | Roswell Park Cancer InstituteHealthcare & Social Assistance | 20 | $135,000 |
| 16 | Research Foundation Of Suny At BuffaloEducational Services | 19 | $65,282 |
| 17 | The Principal Consulting, INC.Professional & Technical Services | 18 | $109,564 |
| 18 | Odoo, Inc.Professional & Technical Services | 16 | $112,800 |
| 19 | Alight Solutions LLCFinance & Insurance | 16 | $140,000 |
| 20 | CARFAX, Inc.Information & Media | 14 | $127,750 |
| 21 | Solstice Advanced Materials US, Inc.Professional & Technical Services | 13 | $165,435 |
| 22 | Catholic Health System, Inc.Healthcare & Social Assistance | 13 | $125,076 |
| 23 | General Physician P.C.Healthcare & Social Assistance | 13 | $281,337 |
| 24 | Apogee Medical Group, New York, PCHealthcare & Social Assistance | 13 | $338,035 |
| 25 | Independent Health Association, Inc.Healthcare & Social Assistance | 11 | $138,461 |
PlainEmployers renders Buffalo, NY 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.