Metro area · AK

Fairbanks, AK

Fairbanks, AK spreads H-1B hiring across 5+ sectors (7 employers, $88,130 median wage) rather than one dominant NAICS group.

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7
Employers
$88,130
Median H-1B wage
32
H-1B filings

Fairbanks, AK: 7 tracked employers at a $88,130 median H-1B wage across 32 LCAs; Administrative & Waste Services leads the local roster.

According to DOL OFLC H-1B disclosures, OSHA injury logs, and state WARN Act notices mapped to worksites in Fairbanks, AK (AK), PlainEmployers rolls up 7 employers at a $88,130 disclosed median. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.

  • 7 employers
  • $88,130 median H-1B
  • 32 H-1B LCAs

Where Fairbanks, AK's median H-1B wage sits nationally

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

$88,130 Top 82% higher than 18% 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%). This entry sits in this band. $100,000–$120,000: 49,740 credible H-1B wage rows (18%). Above this entry. $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. Fairbanks, AK $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

Fairbanks, AK (7 employers) sits beside Anchorage, AK, Nome, AK, Juneau, AK in AK's tracked roster. Open a peer metro to compare H-1B wage and WARN density. Among metros with employers in this corpus, Fairbanks, AK ranks #1289 of 6906 by employer count (about the 79th percentile).

Anchorage, AK 20 Nome, AK 5 Juneau, AK 3 Kotzebue, AK 3 Bethel, AK 2 Ketchikan, AK 2

What the data says about Fairbanks, AK

Corpus placement: Fairbanks, AK ranks #1289 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 79th percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Administrative & Waste Services leads with 1 of 7 tracked employers (~14%); next sectors in the mix are Educational Services and Healthcare & Social Assistance. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: University of Alaska, AOG Resources LLC, and Favorite Healthcare Staffing LLC (28 filings combined, ~88% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Fairbanks, AK: DOL H-1B disclosure filings.

Fairbanks, AK reads as a diversified labor market: the lead sector (Administrative & Waste Services) is only ~14% of tracked employers across 5 named industries, so no single NAICS group dominates the local picture.

Same-state context for Fairbanks, AK: Anchorage, AK (20 employers); Nome, AK (5 employers); Juneau, AK (3 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 Fairbanks, AK

Which sectors the metro's tracked employers operate in

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What this shows Fairbanks, AK has no runaway sector: Administrative & Waste Services leads at only ~14% across 5 named industries.

Source DOL H-1B, OSHA & WARN filings mapped to NAICS sector

Top employers in Fairbanks, AK

# Employer H-1B filingsMedian wage
1 University of Alaska Educational Services 21 $109,335
2 AOG Resources LLC Transportation & Warehousing 4 $53,638
3 Favorite Healthcare Staffing LLC Administrative & Waste Services 3 $86,070
4 Northern Star (POGO) LLC Mining & Extraction 1 $236,808
5 Open Arms Child Development Center Healthcare & Social Assistance 1 $54,000
6 Foundation Health LLC 1 $405,520
7 Aurora Expeditions LLC 1 $63,000

PlainEmployers renders Fairbanks, AK from DOL H-1B disclosure filings, 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.