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D.c., DC

D.c., DC is a Professional & Technical Services-heavy labor market: 9 tracked employers at a $136,500 median H-1B wage across 199 LCAs.

9
Employers
$136,500
Median H-1B wage
199
H-1B filings

D.c., DC: 9 tracked employers at a $136,500 median H-1B wage across 199 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 D.c., DC (DC), PlainEmployers rolls up 9 employers at a $136,500 disclosed median with 1 employers carrying WARN history. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.

  • 9 employers
  • $136,500 median H-1B
  • 199 H-1B LCAs
  • 1 WARN employers

Where D.c., DC's median H-1B wage sits nationally

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

$136,500 Top 40% higher than 60% 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%). This entry sits in this band. $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. D.c., DC $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

D.c., DC (9 employers) sits beside Washington, DC, Washington Dc, DC, District Of Columbia, DC in DC's tracked roster. Open a peer metro to compare H-1B wage and WARN density. Among metros with employers in this corpus, D.c., DC ranks #1072 of 6906 by employer count (about the 83rd percentile).

Top industries Professional & Technical ServicesOther ServicesInformation & Media

What the data says about D.c., DC

Corpus placement: D.c., DC ranks #1072 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 83rd percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 12 of 9 tracked employers (~133%); next sectors in the mix are Other Services and Educational Services. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: Sirius Xm Radio LLC, Cloudberg Tec Limited Company, and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP (140 filings combined, ~70% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for D.c., DC: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; state WARN Act layoff notices, including 1 employers with WARN history.

Headline sponsors: Sirius Xm Radio LLC, Cloudberg Tec Limited Company, and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, together 140 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.

D.c., DC reads as a concentrated labor market: Professional & Technical Services alone covers about 133% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.

Sirius Xm Radio LLC plus Cloudberg Tec Limited Company account for about 70% of D.c., DC'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 D.c., DC, 1 carry WARN Act history (2 notices, about 49 workers named across credible filings). That is a local stability signal separate from H-1B hiring volume.

Same-state context for D.c., DC: Washington, DC (536 employers); Washington Dc, DC (40 employers); District Of Columbia, DC (6 employers). Employer-count gaps between these metros are why a wage offer that looks high in one city can look ordinary in another.

WARN layoff activity in D.c., DC

1 tracked employer with a worksite here have filed 2 WARN notices , naming about 49 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 D.c., DC

#EmployerH-1B filingsMedian wage
1Sirius Xm Radio LLCInformation & Media96$155,000
2Cloudberg Tec Limited CompanyProfessional & Technical Services26$95,490
3Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLPProfessional & Technical Services18-
4The Asia SocietyProfessional & Technical Services11$163,000
5Paul Hastings LLPProfessional & Technical Services9$225,000
6The President & Fellows of Middlebury CollegeEducational Services8$99,074
7Council for Affordable Quality HealthcareOther Services4$104,748
8Cssi, LLC.Professional & Technical Services4$135,000
9Techligent Systems, Inc.Professional & Technical Services4$117,520
10AKQA, Inc.Professional & Technical Services3$136,000
11Carnegie Institution of Washington d/b/a Carnegie Institution for ScienceProfessional & Technical Services2$82,924
12Google Client Services LLC2$139,000
13Annexa, Inc.Professional & Technical Services2$128,757
14Excelencia in Education, Inc.Professional & Technical Services2$83,408
15Beroe Holdings, Inc.Professional & Technical Services2$157,248
16Campaign for Tobacco-Free KidsOther Services1$125,000
17Coastal States Organization, Inc.Other Services1$87,500
18Aslan Protects, Inc.Professional & Technical Services1$126,090
19Soma Capital Management LLCFinance & Insurance1$275,000
20Vedder Price P.C.1$290,000
21TechMind Software Solutions1$102,000
Sources, citation, and related links for D.c., DC

Disclaimer: The D.c., DC 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 D.c., DC from DOL H-1B disclosure filings 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.