Columbia, SC

For Columbia, SC (SC), PlainEmployers rolls up 53 employers whose federal filings map to this regional labor market at a $95,000 median disclosed H-1B wage across 716 H-1B LCAs, with Professional & Technical Services the largest tracked sector (35 employers, ~66% of the local roster). Read these metro figures first, then judge any single local employer against them.

Corpus placement: Columbia, SC ranks #174 of 6069 metros by employer count (about the 97th percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 35 of 53 tracked employers (~66%); next sectors in the mix are Educational Services and Manufacturing. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: Decision Six Inc, The Curators of the University of Missouri, and University of South Carolina (335 filings combined, ~47% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Columbia, SC: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records; state WARN Act layoff notices, including 1 employers with WARN history.

Headline sponsors: Decision Six Inc, The Curators of the University of Missouri, and University of South Carolina, together 335 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.

Columbia, SC reads as a concentrated labor market: Professional & Technical Services alone covers about 66% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.

Decision Six Inc plus The Curators of the University of Missouri account for about 47% of Columbia, SC'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 Columbia, SC, 1 carry WARN Act history (1 notice, about 126 workers named across credible filings). That is a local stability signal separate from H-1B hiring volume.

Same-state context for Columbia, SC: Fort Mill, SC (76 employers); Greenville, SC (43 employers); Indian Land, SC (29 employers). Employer-count gaps between these metros are why a wage offer that looks high in one city can look ordinary in another.