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Kirkland, WA

Kirkland, WA is a Professional & Technical Services-heavy labor market: 76 tracked employers at a $145,600 median H-1B wage across 1,083 LCAs.

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76
Employers
$145,600
Median H-1B wage
1,083
H-1B filings

Kirkland, WA: 76 tracked employers at a $145,600 median H-1B wage across 1,083 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 Kirkland, WA (WA), PlainEmployers rolls up 76 employers at a $145,600 disclosed median with 6 employers carrying WARN history. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.

  • 76 employers
  • $145,600 median H-1B
  • 1,083 H-1B LCAs
  • 6 WARN employers

Where Kirkland, WA's median H-1B wage sits nationally

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

$145,600 Top 34% higher than 66% 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%). Below this entry. $140,000–$160,000: 33,306 credible H-1B wage rows (12%). This entry sits in this band. $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. Kirkland, WA $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

Kirkland, WA (76 employers) sits beside Seattle, WA, Bellevue, WA, Redmond, WA in WA's tracked roster. Open a peer metro to compare H-1B wage and WARN density. Among metros with employers in this corpus, Kirkland, WA ranks #154 of 6906 by employer count (about the 98th percentile).

Seattle, WA 601 Bellevue, WA 382 Redmond, WA 187 Bothell, WA 146 Issaquah, WA 43 Vancouver, WA 36
Top industries Professional & Technical ServicesInformation & MediaHealthcare & Social AssistanceRetail TradeEducational Services

What the data says about Kirkland, WA

Corpus placement: Kirkland, WA ranks #154 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 98th percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 30 of 76 tracked employers (~39%); next sectors in the mix are Information & Media and Healthcare & Social Assistance. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: Best Buy CO., INC., Worldpay, LLC, and PACCAR Inc (349 filings combined, ~32% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Kirkland, WA: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records; state WARN Act layoff notices, including 6 employers with WARN history.

Headline sponsors: Best Buy CO., INC., Worldpay, LLC, and PACCAR Inc, together 349 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.

Kirkland, WA reads as a concentrated labor market: Professional & Technical Services alone covers about 39% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.

Best Buy CO., INC. plus Worldpay, LLC account for about 32% of Kirkland, WA'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 Kirkland, WA, 6 carry WARN Act history (13 notices, about 1,135 workers named across credible filings). That is a local stability signal separate from H-1B hiring volume.

Same-state context for Kirkland, WA: Seattle, WA (601 employers); Bellevue, WA (382 employers); Redmond, WA (187 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 Kirkland, WA

6 tracked employers with a worksite here have filed 13 WARN notices , naming about 1,135 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 Kirkland, WA

#EmployerH-1B filingsMedian wage
1Best Buy CO., INC.Retail Trade156$155,590
2Worldpay, LLCProfessional & Technical Services126$140,060
3PACCAR IncManufacturing67$120,474
4Electronic Arts Inc.Professional & Technical Services64$153,084
5Relanto Inc.Professional & Technical Services64$150,000
6Ibase Operations Corp.Professional & Technical Services49$118,268
7GoDaddy.com, LLCInformation & Media42$138,199
8Shopify (USA) INC.Professional & Technical Services42$150,769
9Intone Networks, Inc.Professional & Technical Services38$120,000
10Gusto, Inc.Professional & Technical Services37$240,000
11Zions Bancorporation, N.A.33$128,669
12Marvel Technology Solutions IncProfessional & Technical Services25$111,550
13Moveworks, Inc.Professional & Technical Services22$200,000
14Perkins Eastman Architects DPCProfessional & Technical Services22$71,757
15Sumo Logic INC.Professional & Technical Services17$190,600
16Amplitude, Inc.Professional & Technical Services16$179,966
17Cdk Global, LLCProfessional & Technical Services16$128,074
18Warp Drive, Inc.Information & Media14$224,000
19Providence Health & ServicesHealthcare & Social Assistance14$127,632
20Blue River TechnologyProfessional & Technical Services11$190,000
21Locally Compact, Inc.Finance & Insurance11$165,002
22Wyze Labs, Inc.Wholesale Trade11$95,000
23Hayden AI Technologies, Inc.Information & Media10$243,787
24Modular, Inc.Professional & Technical Services10$211,500
25Quadrant Resource LLCProfessional & Technical Services10$101,155
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Disclaimer: The Kirkland, WA 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 Kirkland, WA 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.