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Charleston, WV

Charleston, WV is a Healthcare & Social Assistance-heavy labor market: 5 tracked employers at a $100,630 median H-1B wage across 211 LCAs.

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5
Employers
$100,630
Median H-1B wage
211
H-1B filings

Charleston, WV: 5 tracked employers at a $100,630 median H-1B wage across 211 LCAs; Healthcare & Social Assistance leads the local roster.

According to DOL OFLC H-1B disclosures, OSHA injury logs, and state WARN Act notices mapped to worksites in Charleston, WV (WV), PlainEmployers rolls up 5 employers at a $100,630 disclosed median. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.

  • 5 employers
  • $100,630 median H-1B
  • 211 H-1B LCAs

Where Charleston, WV's median H-1B wage sits nationally

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

$100,630 Top 71% higher than 29% 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. Charleston, WV $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

Charleston, WV (5 employers) sits beside Morgantown, WV, Huntington, WV, Martinsburg, WV in WV's tracked roster. Open a peer metro to compare H-1B wage and WARN density. Among metros with employers in this corpus, Charleston, WV ranks #1605 of 6906 by employer count (about the 73rd percentile).

Morgantown, WV 14 Huntington, WV 11 Martinsburg, WV 6 Beckley, WV 5 Parkersburg, WV 5 Bridgeport, WV 4
Top industries Healthcare & Social AssistanceProfessional & Technical ServicesPublic Administration

What the data says about Charleston, WV

Corpus placement: Charleston, WV ranks #1605 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 73rd percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Healthcare & Social Assistance leads with 4 of 5 tracked employers (~80%); next sectors in the mix are Educational Services and Professional & Technical Services. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: West Virginia University, Fayette Physician Network, Inc., and Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc. (196 filings combined, ~93% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Charleston, WV: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records.

Headline sponsors: West Virginia University, Fayette Physician Network, Inc., and Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc., together 196 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.

Charleston, WV reads as a concentrated labor market: Healthcare & Social Assistance alone covers about 80% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.

West Virginia University plus Fayette Physician Network, Inc. account for about 93% of Charleston, WV'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 Charleston, WV in this corpus, a cleaner local stability read than metros where large sponsors have filed reductions.

Same-state context for Charleston, WV: Morgantown, WV (14 employers); Huntington, WV (11 employers); Martinsburg, WV (6 employers). Employer-count gaps between these metros are why a wage offer that looks high in one city can look ordinary in another.

Top employers in Charleston, WV

#EmployerH-1B filingsMedian wage
1West Virginia UniversityEducational Services152$100,630
2Fayette Physician Network, Inc.Healthcare & Social Assistance25$316,032
3Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc.Healthcare & Social Assistance19$71,219
4Hospitalist Medicine Physicians of West Virginia, PLLCHealthcare & Social Assistance8$253,791
5Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston4$34,976
6Lanco Global Systems IncProfessional & Technical Services1$113,500
7Herbert J. Thomas Memorial Hospital AssociationHealthcare & Social Assistance1$64,958
8West Virginia State Health Department, Office Of The Chief Medical ExaminerPublic Administration1$306,000
Sources, citation, and related links for Charleston, WV

Disclaimer: The Charleston, WV 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 Charleston, WV from DOL H-1B disclosure filings and OSHA Injury Tracking Application records, 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.