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Lake Forest, IL

Lake Forest, IL is a Professional & Technical Services-heavy labor market: 22 tracked employers at a $124,883 median H-1B wage across 353 LCAs.

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22
Employers
$124,883
Median H-1B wage
353
H-1B filings

Lake Forest, IL: 22 tracked employers at a $124,883 median H-1B wage across 353 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 Lake Forest, IL (IL), PlainEmployers rolls up 22 employers at a $124,883 disclosed median. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.

  • 22 employers
  • $124,883 median H-1B
  • 353 H-1B LCAs

Where Lake Forest, IL's median H-1B wage sits nationally

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

$124,883 Top 50% higher than 50% 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. Lake Forest, IL $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

Lake Forest, IL (22 employers) sits beside Chicago, IL, Naperville, IL, Schaumburg, IL in IL's tracked roster. Open a peer metro to compare H-1B wage and WARN density. Among metros with employers in this corpus, Lake Forest, IL ranks #524 of 6906 by employer count (about the 92nd percentile).

Chicago, IL 1,288 Naperville, IL 138 Schaumburg, IL 101 Aurora, IL 92 Buffalo Grove, IL 54 Peoria, IL 44
Top industries Professional & Technical ServicesManufacturingFinance & InsuranceWholesale TradeOther Services

What the data says about Lake Forest, IL

Corpus placement: Lake Forest, IL ranks #524 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 92nd percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 8 of 22 tracked employers (~36%); next sectors in the mix are Manufacturing and Finance & Insurance. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: Abbott Laboratories, United Pharma Technologies, INC., and SDVS Technologies LLC (188 filings combined, ~53% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Lake Forest, IL: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records.

Headline sponsors: Abbott Laboratories, United Pharma Technologies, INC., and SDVS Technologies LLC, together 188 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.

Lake Forest, IL reads as a concentrated labor market: Professional & Technical Services alone covers about 36% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.

Abbott Laboratories plus United Pharma Technologies, INC. account for about 53% of Lake Forest, IL'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 Lake Forest, IL in this corpus, a cleaner local stability read than metros where large sponsors have filed reductions.

Within IL, Lake Forest, IL is smaller than peers such as Chicago, IL (1,288 employers); Naperville, IL (138 employers); Schaumburg, IL (101 employers); use those pages when you need a denser local sponsor list.

Top employers in Lake Forest, IL

#EmployerH-1B filingsMedian wage
1Abbott LaboratoriesManufacturing86$138,500
2United Pharma Technologies, INC.Professional & Technical Services57$104,000
3SDVS Technologies LLCProfessional & Technical Services45$112,923
4Grainger Corporate Services LLCWholesale Trade39$156,223
5Aveva Software, LLCProfessional & Technical Services24$145,246
6Grainger Management LLCOther Services22$154,953
7W.W. Grainger, Inc.Other Services18$148,644
8Shark Analytics LLCProfessional & Technical Services14$102,000
9Lorsiv Technologies IncProfessional & Technical Services9$106,500
10Saint-Gobain Shared Services Corporation7$135,000
11Pactiv LLCManufacturing6$119,135
12Infogain Technologies, INC.Professional & Technical Services4$108,524
13Smiths Medical ASD INC.Manufacturing3$95,000
14Computer Power Group IncProfessional & Technical Services3$113,900
15Alere INC.Manufacturing3$162,500
16Lake Forest CollegeEducational Services2$65,624
17Luminare Health Benefits, Inc.Finance & Insurance2$149,355
18Brimar LED LLCWholesale Trade1$66,290
19cGMP Consulting Inc.Professional & Technical Services1$88,000
20Schreiber Investments, Inc.Finance & Insurance1$135,000
21Pasquesi Sheppard LLC1$88,000
22Crescent Grove Advisors, LLC1$90,000
23Investmark LLC1$64,147
24Eventus Systems INC.Finance & Insurance1$225,000
Sources, citation, and related links for Lake Forest, IL

Disclaimer: The Lake Forest, IL 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 Lake Forest, IL 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.