Metro area · IL
Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL is a Professional & Technical Services-heavy labor market: 1,288 tracked employers at a $139,589 median H-1B wage across 34,129 LCAs.
- 1,288
- Employers
- $139,589
- Median H-1B wage
- 34,129
- H-1B filings
Chicago, IL: 1,288 tracked employers at a $139,589 median H-1B wage across 34,129 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 Chicago, IL (IL), PlainEmployers rolls up 1,288 employers at a $139,589 disclosed median with 30 employers carrying WARN history. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.
- 1,288 employers
- $139,589 median H-1B
- 34,129 H-1B LCAs
- 30 WARN employers
Where Chicago, IL's median H-1B wage sits nationally
Metro median disclosed wage vs every credible H-1B wage row
$139,589 Top 38% higher than 62% 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
Chicago, IL (1,288 employers) sits beside Naperville, IL, Schaumburg, IL, Aurora, IL in IL's tracked roster. Open a peer metro to compare H-1B wage and WARN density. Among metros with employers in this corpus, Chicago, IL ranks #5 of 6906 by employer count (about the 100th percentile).
What the data says about Chicago, IL
Corpus placement: Chicago, IL ranks #5 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 100th percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 499 of 1,288 tracked employers (~39%); next sectors in the mix are Finance & Insurance and Information & Media. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: Ernst & Young U.S. LLP, Deloitte Consulting LLP, and PayPal, Inc. (8,720 filings combined, ~26% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Chicago, IL: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records; state WARN Act layoff notices, including 30 employers with WARN history.
Headline sponsors: Ernst & Young U.S. LLP, Deloitte Consulting LLP, and PayPal, Inc., together 8,720 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.
Chicago, IL reads as a concentrated labor market: Professional & Technical Services alone covers about 39% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.
Ernst & Young U.S. LLP plus Deloitte Consulting LLP account for about 26% of Chicago, IL'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 Chicago, IL, 30 carry WARN Act history (73 notices, about 17,381 workers named across credible filings). That is a local stability signal separate from H-1B hiring volume.
Within IL, Chicago, IL is among denser labor markets versus Naperville, IL (138 employers); Schaumburg, IL (101 employers); Aurora, IL (92 employers); its median and mix are less likely to swing on a single filing.
WARN layoff activity in Chicago, IL
30 tracked employers with a worksite here have filed 73 WARN notices , naming about 17,381 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 Chicago, IL
| # | Employer | H-1B filings | Median wage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ernst & Young U.S. LLP | 4,072 | $152,000 |
| 2 | Deloitte Consulting LLPProfessional & Technical Services | 3,416 | $147,803 |
| 3 | PayPal, Inc.Finance & Insurance | 1,232 | $169,000 |
| 4 | Amazon Data Services, IncInformation & Media | 763 | $142,200 |
| 5 | Capital One Services, LLCFinance & Insurance | 756 | $153,000 |
| 6 | Pricewaterhousecoopers Advisory Services LLCProfessional & Technical Services | 690 | $186,000 |
| 7 | Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc.Finance & Insurance | 663 | $165,000 |
| 8 | Elevance Health, Inc.Finance & Insurance | 502 | $140,138 |
| 9 | Boston Consulting Group, Inc.Professional & Technical Services | 425 | $190,000 |
| 10 | Deloitte & Touche LLPProfessional & Technical Services | 419 | $130,283 |
| 11 | Expedia, Inc.Information & Media | 412 | $149,240 |
| 12 | Innova Solutions, INC.Professional & Technical Services | 350 | $119,392 |
| 13 | BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.Finance & Insurance | 349 | $153,450 |
| 14 | Databricks, Inc.Professional & Technical Services | 333 | $167,024 |
| 15 | Capital One, National AssociationFinance & Insurance | 321 | $134,684 |
| 16 | McKinsey & Company, Inc. United States | 303 | $192,000 |
| 17 | Bank Of America N.A.Finance & Insurance | 294 | - |
| 18 | Northwestern UniversityEducational Services | 279 | $70,268 |
| 19 | Intellectt, INC.Professional & Technical Services | 272 | $108,160 |
| 20 | The Ohio State UniversityEducational Services | 261 | $80,925 |
| 21 | The University of ChicagoEducational Services | 237 | $82,819 |
| 22 | Kpmg LLPProfessional & Technical Services | 223 | $164,150 |
| 23 | Charles Schwab & Company, Inc. | 191 | $160,000 |
| 24 | Social Finance, LLCFinance & Insurance | 179 | $203,300 |
| 25 | Health Care Service CORPORATIONFinance & Insurance | 175 | $134,971 |
Sources, citation, and related links for Chicago, IL
Disclaimer: The Chicago, IL 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 Chicago, IL 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.