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Kansas City, KS

Kansas City, KS is a Professional & Technical Services-heavy labor market: 22 tracked employers at a $104,374 median H-1B wage across 250 LCAs.

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22
Employers
$104,374
Median H-1B wage
250
H-1B filings

Kansas City, KS: 22 tracked employers at a $104,374 median H-1B wage across 250 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 Kansas City, KS (KS), PlainEmployers rolls up 22 employers at a $104,374 disclosed median. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.

  • 22 employers
  • $104,374 median H-1B
  • 250 H-1B LCAs

Where Kansas City, KS's median H-1B wage sits nationally

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

$104,374 Top 68% higher than 32% 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. Kansas City, KS $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

Kansas City, KS (22 employers) sits beside Overland Park, KS, Wichita, KS, Lenexa, KS in KS's tracked roster. Open a peer metro to compare H-1B wage and WARN density. Among metros with employers in this corpus, Kansas City, KS ranks #524 of 6906 by employer count (about the 92nd percentile).

Overland Park, KS 125 Wichita, KS 61 Lenexa, KS 24 Topeka, KS 18 Olathe, KS 18 Leawood, KS 15
Top industries Professional & Technical ServicesManufacturingEducational ServicesHealthcare & Social AssistanceFinance & Insurance

What the data says about Kansas City, KS

Corpus placement: Kansas City, KS ranks #524 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 92nd percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 9 of 22 tracked employers (~41%); next sectors in the mix are Healthcare & Social Assistance and Educational Services. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: The University Of Kansas Medical Center, The Children's Mercy Hospital, and The University of Kansas Physicians (117 filings combined, ~47% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Kansas City, KS: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records.

Headline sponsors: The University Of Kansas Medical Center, The Children's Mercy Hospital, and The University of Kansas Physicians, together 117 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.

Kansas City, KS reads as a concentrated labor market: Professional & Technical Services alone covers about 41% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.

The University Of Kansas Medical Center plus The Children's Mercy Hospital account for about 47% of Kansas City, KS'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 Kansas City, KS in this corpus, a cleaner local stability read than metros where large sponsors have filed reductions.

Same-state context for Kansas City, KS: Overland Park, KS (125 employers); Wichita, KS (61 employers); Lenexa, KS (24 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 Kansas City, KS

#EmployerH-1B filingsMedian wage
1The University Of Kansas Medical CenterEducational Services66$79,967
2The Children's Mercy Hospital31$181,000
3The University of Kansas PhysiciansHealthcare & Social Assistance20$277,888
4CertainTeed LLCManufacturing20$135,000
5The Lane Construction CorporationConstruction11$107,078
6Maveric NXT Inc10$114,319
7Hs Solutions INCProfessional & Technical Services9$116,462
8IQ Spectra Inc.Professional & Technical Services9$108,300
9Toole Design Group LLCProfessional & Technical Services7$104,603
10Saint Luke's Health SystemHealthcare & Social Assistance7$204,894
11Tech Talent Connect LLCProfessional & Technical Services7$99,840
12Iris Infotech INCProfessional & Technical Services6$83,319
13Lifeline Nursing Solutions, LLC.Healthcare & Social Assistance6$84,531
14Diligent Group LLCProfessional & Technical Services5$114,920
15MPP Pharma LLCManufacturing4$107,182
16University Of Kansas Medical CenterEducational Services3$135,869
17Absolute Information Technologies INCProfessional & Technical Services3$112,923
18Prime Healthcare Services - Providence, LLCHealthcare & Social Assistance2$72,738
19Turner Unified School DistrictEducational Services2$52,256
20Unified School District No. 500, Wyandotte County, KansasEducational Services2$51,661
21Implico, IncProfessional & Technical Services2-
22Advanced Materials & Catalysts LLC2$114,206
23Greentec Auto, Inc.Manufacturing1$70,500
24R&S Agency, Inc.Professional & Technical Services1$85,966
25ASR Rainbow LLC1$47,840
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Disclaimer: The Kansas City, KS 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 Kansas City, KS 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.