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Gaithersburg, MD

Gaithersburg, MD is a Professional & Technical Services-heavy labor market: 71 tracked employers at a $102,981 median H-1B wage across 1,092 LCAs.

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71
Employers
$102,981
Median H-1B wage
1,092
H-1B filings

Gaithersburg, MD: 71 tracked employers at a $102,981 median H-1B wage across 1,092 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 Gaithersburg, MD (MD), PlainEmployers rolls up 71 employers at a $102,981 disclosed median with 4 employers carrying WARN history. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.

  • 71 employers
  • $102,981 median H-1B
  • 1,092 H-1B LCAs
  • 4 WARN employers

Where Gaithersburg, MD's median H-1B wage sits nationally

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

$102,981 Top 69% higher than 31% 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%). This entry sits in this band. $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. Gaithersburg, MD $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

Gaithersburg, MD (71 employers) sits beside Baltimore, MD, Rockville, MD, Bethesda, MD in MD's tracked roster. Open a peer metro to compare H-1B wage and WARN density. Among metros with employers in this corpus, Gaithersburg, MD ranks #166 of 6906 by employer count (about the 98th percentile).

Baltimore, MD 176 Rockville, MD 132 Bethesda, MD 111 Columbia, MD 74 Frederick, MD 56 Silver Spring, MD 41
Top industries Professional & Technical ServicesManufacturingEducational ServicesHealthcare & Social AssistanceInformation & Media

What the data says about Gaithersburg, MD

Corpus placement: Gaithersburg, MD ranks #166 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 98th percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 36 of 71 tracked employers (~51%); next sectors in the mix are Manufacturing and Educational Services. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University, and University of Maryland College Park (608 filings combined, ~56% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Gaithersburg, MD: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records; state WARN Act layoff notices, including 4 employers with WARN history.

Headline sponsors: Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University, and University of Maryland College Park, together 608 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.

Gaithersburg, MD reads as a concentrated labor market: Professional & Technical Services alone covers about 51% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.

Johns Hopkins University plus Georgetown University account for about 56% of Gaithersburg, MD'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 Gaithersburg, MD, 4 carry WARN Act history (8 notices, about 632 workers named across credible filings). That is a local stability signal separate from H-1B hiring volume.

Same-state context for Gaithersburg, MD: Baltimore, MD (176 employers); Rockville, MD (132 employers); Bethesda, MD (111 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 Gaithersburg, MD

4 tracked employers with a worksite here have filed 8 WARN notices , naming about 632 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 Gaithersburg, MD

#EmployerH-1B filingsMedian wage
1Johns Hopkins UniversityEducational Services412$78,240
2Georgetown UniversityEducational Services113$80,190
3University of Maryland College ParkEducational Services83-
4AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LPManufacturing78$167,000
5Hughes Network Systems LLCManufacturing59$151,819
6The George Washington UniversityEducational Services23$96,500
7Axle Informatics LLCProfessional & Technical Services23$123,746
8Corporation Service CompanyProfessional & Technical Services22$143,200
9Eia Technologies INC.Professional & Technical Services20$106,039
10Adventist HealthCare, Inc.Healthcare & Social Assistance19$103,003
11CSG Systems Inc. d/b/a CSGProfessional & Technical Services14$133,580
12Horizon Therapeutics USA, Inc.Manufacturing14$159,817
13OSS, Inc.Professional & Technical Services13$84,053
14Scepter Technologies, IncProfessional & Technical Services13$126,880
15BioNTech US Inc.Professional & Technical Services12$175,000
16MedImmune LLCManufacturing11$110,313
17Safety & Efficacy IT Solutions Inc.Professional & Technical Services11$96,641
18Cloudscape, LLCProfessional & Technical Services10$104,666
19Global Alliant IncProfessional & Technical Services9$126,090
20United Consulting Hub IncProfessional & Technical Services9$93,392
21Quantum Vision, LLCProfessional & Technical Services8$137,738
22Meso Scale Diagnostics, LLCManufacturing7$125,987
23Cloudware LLCProfessional & Technical Services6$105,571
24Elixir Lab USA IncProfessional & Technical Services6$108,333
25Eurofins Professional Scientific Services Mid-Atlantic, LLC6$56,000
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Disclaimer: The Gaithersburg, MD overview is informational only and is not professional advice. Consult a qualified professional before employment, hiring, or compliance decisions based on this data.

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PlainEmployers renders Gaithersburg, MD 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.