Metro area · CA

Foster City, CA

H-1B hiring, wages and employer concentration across 72 employers in the Foster City, CA metro.

72
Employers
$143,200
Median H-1B wage
979
H-1B filings

The metro at a glance

Foster City, CA, CA aggregates 72 tracked employers at a $143,200 median H-1B wage and 979 H-1B filings on record, with hiring concentrated in Transportation & Warehousing and Information & Media.

72
employers
$143,200
median H-1B wage
979
H-1B filings
5
top industries
Top industries Transportation & WarehousingInformation & MediaManufacturingProfessional & Technical ServicesFinance & InsuranceAdministrative & Waste Services

What the data says about this metro

Metro pages on PlainEmployers gather every employer whose federal filings tie to a single regional labor market, so you can see where H-1B hiring concentrates, which sectors dominate, and how often layoffs are filed in one place. Every figure below comes from the same three public datasets behind individual profiles, the Department of Labor H-1B disclosures, OSHA injury records, and state WARN Act notices, aggregated across the metro. Use these regional numbers as the backdrop against which any single local employer should be read.

Foster City, CA, CA aggregates 72 employers at a median disclosed H-1B wage of $143,200, with hiring concentrated in Transportation & Warehousing, Information & Media, Manufacturing. The mix is computed from actual DOL/OSHA/WARN filings in this specific metro; see methodology for source documentation.

Headline sponsors: Visa Technology & Operations LLC, Visa U.S.A. Inc., and Zoox Inc., together 516 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.

Metro-area figures sum the employer records tied to this region's labor market, based on WARN Act notices and US Department of Labor data. Geographic boundaries are approximate: a filing is attributed to the metro of the affected worksite, so a multi-site employer may appear across several metros, and remote reductions can be hard to localize. Local economic conditions, seasonal patterns, and the presence of one or two very large employers can all skew a metro's totals. Use these numbers to understand the broad shape of activity in the area, not as a precise census, and consult the individual records and the methodology for the underlying detail.

Employer mix in Foster City, CA

Which sectors the metro's tracked employers operate in

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What this shows Professional & Technical Services is the largest tracked sector in Foster City, CA, shaping the metro's wage and hiring profile.

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

Top employers in Foster City, CA

# Employer H-1B filingsMedian wage
1 Visa Technology & Operations LLC Finance & Insurance 224 $145,066
2 Visa U.S.A. Inc. Finance & Insurance 146 $181,819
3 Zoox Inc. Transportation & Warehousing 146 $174,928
4 Gilead Sciences, Inc. Professional & Technical Services 117 $156,406
5 CyberSource Corporation Finance & Insurance 62 $175,659
6 ADAEQUARE INC Professional & Technical Services 50 $106,389
7 Illumina, Inc. Professional & Technical Services 39 $148,602
8 RICEFW Technologies Inc. Professional & Technical Services 21 $123,116
9 QUALYS, INC. Information & Media 20 $135,905
10 Coupa Software, Inc. Information & Media 17 $170,931
11 XL SOFTEK INC. Professional & Technical Services 14 $105,823
12 DISH NETWORK, LLC Information & Media 12 $131,499
13 NEXINFO SOLUTIONS, INC Professional & Technical Services 10 $115,800
14 Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories Professional Scientific Services, LLC Professional & Technical Services 10 $80,024
15 QuinStreet, Inc. Professional & Technical Services 7 $133,480
16 RYZEN SOLUTIONS Administrative & Waste Services 6 $175,850
17 Afterpay US, Inc. Finance & Insurance 5 $216,780
18 Alluxio, Inc. Information & Media 5 $176,839
19 Replit Inc Information & Media 5 $199,600
20 United Business Solutions Inc Professional & Technical Services 5 $99,213
21 Motiv Power Systems Inc. Manufacturing 4 $141,232
22 Sycomp A Technology Company, Inc. Information & Media 4 $148,750
23 The J. David Gladstone Institutes Professional & Technical Services 4 $97,243
24 Zenleads Inc. Professional & Technical Services 4 $217,951
25 Sway AI, Inc. Information & Media 4 $155,000

What this means if you work in Foster City, CA

Use Foster City, CA's $143,200 median as the local benchmark, H-1B wages are legally tied to each metro's prevailing wage, so the same role pays differently city to city.

  • A same-role H-1B offer well below $143,200 is worth questioning, the median here is set by 72 tracked employers.
  • Visa Technology & Operations LLC leads local H-1B sponsorship; compare its pay and safety grade against peers before applying. Compare employers
  • Check an employer’s WARN layoff history for job-stability risk in this metro. Largest layoffs

Metro figures aggregate worksites by city; a multi-site employer can appear across several metros, and remote roles are hard to localize.