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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

# Employer H-1B filingsMedian wage
1 Abbott Laboratories Manufacturing 86 $138,500
2 United Pharma Technologies, INC. Professional & Technical Services 57 $104,000
3 SDVS Technologies LLC Professional & Technical Services 45 $112,923
4 Grainger Corporate Services LLC Wholesale Trade 39 $156,223
5 Aveva Software, LLC Professional & Technical Services 24 $145,246
6 Grainger Management LLC Other Services 22 $154,953
7 W.W. Grainger, Inc. Other Services 18 $148,644
8 Shark Analytics LLC Professional & Technical Services 14 $102,000
9 Lorsiv Technologies Inc Professional & Technical Services 9 $106,500
10 Saint-Gobain Shared Services Corporation 7 $135,000
11 Pactiv LLC Manufacturing 6 $119,135
12 Infogain Technologies, INC. Professional & Technical Services 4 $108,524
13 Smiths Medical ASD INC. Manufacturing 3 $95,000
14 Computer Power Group Inc Professional & Technical Services 3 $113,900
15 Alere INC. Manufacturing 3 $162,500
16 Lake Forest College Educational Services 2 $65,624
17 Luminare Health Benefits, Inc. Finance & Insurance 2 $149,355
18 Brimar LED LLC Wholesale Trade 1 $66,290
19 cGMP Consulting Inc. Professional & Technical Services 1 $88,000
20 Schreiber Investments, Inc. Finance & Insurance 1 $135,000
21 Pasquesi Sheppard LLC 1 $88,000
22 Crescent Grove Advisors, LLC 1 $90,000
23 Investmark LLC 1 $64,147
24 Eventus Systems INC. Finance & Insurance 1 $225,000
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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.