Gaithersburg, MD

For Gaithersburg, MD (MD), PlainEmployers rolls up 61 employers whose federal filings map to this regional labor market at a $101,001 median disclosed H-1B wage across 789 H-1B LCAs, with Professional & Technical Services the largest tracked sector (36 employers, ~59% of the local roster). Read these metro figures first, then judge any single local employer against them.

Corpus placement: Gaithersburg, MD ranks #156 of 6069 metros by employer count (about the 97th percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 36 of 61 tracked employers (~59%); next sectors in the mix are Manufacturing and Educational Services. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland College Park, and Georgetown University (443 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, University of Maryland College Park, and Georgetown University, together 443 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 59% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.

Johns Hopkins University plus University of Maryland College Park 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 (142 employers); Rockville, MD (100 employers); Bethesda, MD (86 employers). Employer-count gaps between these metros are why a wage offer that looks high in one city can look ordinary in another.