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Jersey City, NJ

Jersey City, NJ is a Professional & Technical Services-heavy labor market: 573 tracked employers at a $135,000 median H-1B wage across 15,115 LCAs.

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573
Employers
$135,000
Median H-1B wage
15,115
H-1B filings

Jersey City, NJ: 573 tracked employers at a $135,000 median H-1B wage across 15,115 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 Jersey City, NJ (NJ), PlainEmployers rolls up 573 employers at a $135,000 disclosed median with 13 employers carrying WARN history. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.

  • 573 employers
  • $135,000 median H-1B
  • 15,115 H-1B LCAs
  • 13 WARN employers

Where Jersey City, NJ's median H-1B wage sits nationally

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

$135,000 Top 42% higher than 58% 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%). Below this entry. $120,000–$140,000: 42,626 credible H-1B wage rows (16%). This entry sits in this band. $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. Jersey City, NJ $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

Jersey City, NJ (573 employers) sits beside Edison, NJ, Princeton, NJ, Piscataway, NJ in NJ's tracked roster. Open a peer metro to compare H-1B wage and WARN density. Among metros with employers in this corpus, Jersey City, NJ ranks #17 of 6906 by employer count (about the 100th percentile).

Edison, NJ 218 Princeton, NJ 207 Piscataway, NJ 111 Newark, NJ 105 Iselin, NJ 102 Parsippany, NJ 97
Top industries Professional & Technical ServicesFinance & InsuranceInformation & MediaAdministrative & Waste ServicesManufacturing

What the data says about Jersey City, NJ

Corpus placement: Jersey City, NJ ranks #17 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 100th percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 268 of 573 tracked employers (~47%); next sectors in the mix are Finance & Insurance and Information & Media. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: JPMorgan Chase & Co., Fidelity Technology Group, LLC d/b/a Fidelity Investments, and Rivian Automotive, LLC (3,511 filings combined, ~23% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Jersey City, NJ: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records; state WARN Act layoff notices, including 13 employers with WARN history.

Headline sponsors: JPMorgan Chase & Co., Fidelity Technology Group, LLC d/b/a Fidelity Investments, and Rivian Automotive, LLC, together 3,511 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.

Jersey City, NJ reads as a concentrated labor market: Professional & Technical Services alone covers about 47% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.

No single sponsor dominates Jersey City, NJ: the top 3 names hold about 23% of local H-1B filings, leaving room for smaller employers in the median.

Among employers with a worksite mapped to Jersey City, NJ, 13 carry WARN Act history (63 notices, about 5,193 workers named across credible filings). That is a local stability signal separate from H-1B hiring volume.

Within NJ, Jersey City, NJ is among denser labor markets versus Edison, NJ (218 employers); Princeton, NJ (207 employers); Piscataway, NJ (111 employers); its median and mix are less likely to swing on a single filing.

WARN layoff activity in Jersey City, NJ

13 tracked employers with a worksite here have filed 63 WARN notices , naming about 5,193 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 Jersey City, NJ

#EmployerH-1B filingsMedian wage
1JPMorgan Chase & Co.1,836$160,000
2Fidelity Technology Group, LLC d/b/a Fidelity Investments1,083$125,119
3Rivian Automotive, LLCOther Services592$152,000
4Citibank, N.A.573$158,044
5Deloitte Tax LLPProfessional & Technical Services444$114,274
6University of Wisconsin SystemEducational Services346$80,000
7Coforge LimitedProfessional & Technical Services304$112,424
8Bank Of America N.A.Finance & Insurance294-
9Goldman Sachs Bank USAFinance & Insurance294$106,900
10Aetna Resources LLCFinance & Insurance283$146,523
11The University of Texas at AustinEducational Services195$93,636
12Charles Schwab & Company, Inc.191$160,000
13Denken Solutions, INC.Professional & Technical Services170$118,851
14Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryProfessional & Technical Services165$128,170
15Okta, Inc.Professional & Technical Services135$173,215
16Digipulse Technologies, INC.Professional & Technical Services135$135,000
17The Bank of New York MellonFinance & Insurance126$159,000
18Maplebear Inc.Information & Media114$210,000
19Virtusa Consulting Services Pvt., LTDProfessional & Technical Services104$122,070
20ExlService.com, LLCProfessional & Technical Services99$127,657
21Insurance Services Office, IncFinance & Insurance97$142,800
22Deloitte Services LPProfessional & Technical Services97$149,800
23Squad Software Inc.Professional & Technical Services97$110,536
24Cloudflare, INC.Information & Media93$160,000
25Jefferies LLCFinance & Insurance92$225,000
Sources, citation, and related links for Jersey City, NJ

Disclaimer: The Jersey City, NJ 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 Jersey City, NJ 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.