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Grand Forks, ND

Grand Forks, ND is a Healthcare & Social Assistance-heavy labor market: 6 tracked employers at a $98,280 median H-1B wage across 124 LCAs.

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6
Employers
$98,280
Median H-1B wage
124
H-1B filings

Grand Forks, ND: 6 tracked employers at a $98,280 median H-1B wage across 124 LCAs; Healthcare & Social Assistance leads the local roster.

According to DOL OFLC H-1B disclosures, OSHA injury logs, and state WARN Act notices mapped to worksites in Grand Forks, ND (ND), PlainEmployers rolls up 6 employers at a $98,280 disclosed median. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.

  • 6 employers
  • $98,280 median H-1B
  • 124 H-1B LCAs

Where Grand Forks, ND's median H-1B wage sits nationally

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

$98,280 Top 73% higher than 27% 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. Grand Forks, ND $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

Grand Forks, ND (6 employers) sits beside Fargo, ND, Bismarck, ND, Dickinson, ND in ND's tracked roster. Open a peer metro to compare H-1B wage and WARN density. Among metros with employers in this corpus, Grand Forks, ND ranks #1425 of 6906 by employer count (about the 77th percentile).

Fargo, ND 22 Bismarck, ND 13 Dickinson, ND 5 Valley City, ND 5 Devils Lake, ND 4 Grafton, ND 4
Top industries Healthcare & Social AssistanceEducational ServicesProfessional & Technical ServicesManufacturing

What the data says about Grand Forks, ND

Corpus placement: Grand Forks, ND ranks #1425 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 77th percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Healthcare & Social Assistance leads with 4 of 6 tracked employers (~67%); next sectors in the mix are Educational Services and Manufacturing. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: Sanford Clinic, University of North Dakota, and Grand Forks Public Schools (99 filings combined, ~80% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Grand Forks, ND: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records.

Headline sponsors: Sanford Clinic, University of North Dakota, and Grand Forks Public Schools, together 99 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.

Grand Forks, ND reads as a concentrated labor market: Healthcare & Social Assistance alone covers about 67% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.

Sanford Clinic plus University of North Dakota account for about 80% of Grand Forks, ND's H-1B filings in this corpus, so local wage medians are sensitive to those sponsors' role mix.

No WARN Act mass-layoff notices are currently mapped to employers with a worksite in Grand Forks, ND in this corpus, a cleaner local stability read than metros where large sponsors have filed reductions.

Same-state context for Grand Forks, ND: Fargo, ND (22 employers); Bismarck, ND (13 employers); Dickinson, ND (5 employers). Employer-count gaps between these metros are why a wage offer that looks high in one city can look ordinary in another.

Top employers in Grand Forks, ND

# Employer H-1B filingsMedian wage
1 Sanford Clinic Healthcare & Social Assistance 49 $152,339
2 University of North Dakota Educational Services 38 $82,158
3 Grand Forks Public Schools Educational Services 12 $63,178
4 Sanford Medical Center Fargo Healthcare & Social Assistance 12 $88,858
5 Altru Health System Healthcare & Social Assistance 8 $385,000
6 Philadelphia Macaroni Company Manufacturing 3 $221,450
7 Airtonomy, Inc. dba Thread Professional & Technical Services 1 $72,010
8 Spectra Health Healthcare & Social Assistance 1 $150,000
Sources, citation, and related links for Grand Forks, ND

Disclaimer: The Grand Forks, ND 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 Grand Forks, ND from DOL H-1B disclosure filings and OSHA Injury Tracking Application records, 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.