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Nome, AK

Nome, AK is a Educational Services-heavy labor market: 5 tracked employers at a $77,649 median H-1B wage across 80 LCAs.

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5
Employers
$77,649
Median H-1B wage
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H-1B filings

Nome, AK: 5 tracked employers at a $77,649 median H-1B wage across 80 LCAs; Educational Services leads the local roster.

According to DOL OFLC H-1B disclosures, OSHA injury logs, and state WARN Act notices mapped to worksites in Nome, AK (AK), PlainEmployers rolls up 5 employers at a $77,649 disclosed median. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.

  • 5 employers
  • $77,649 median H-1B
  • 80 H-1B LCAs

Where Nome, AK's median H-1B wage sits nationally

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

$77,649 Top 89% higher than 11% 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%). This entry sits in this band. $80,000–$100,000: 43,829 credible H-1B wage rows (16%). Above this entry. $100,000–$120,000: 49,740 credible H-1B wage rows (18%). Above this entry. $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. Nome, AK $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

Nome, AK (5 employers) sits beside Anchorage, AK, Fairbanks, AK, Juneau, AK in AK's tracked roster. Open a peer metro to compare H-1B wage and WARN density. Among metros with employers in this corpus, Nome, AK ranks #1605 of 6906 by employer count (about the 73rd percentile).

Anchorage, AK 20 Fairbanks, AK 7 Juneau, AK 3 Kotzebue, AK 3 Bethel, AK 2 Ketchikan, AK 2
Top industries Educational Services

What the data says about Nome, AK

Corpus placement: Nome, AK ranks #1605 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 73rd percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Educational Services leads with 4 of 5 tracked employers (~80%). Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: Bering Strait School District, Education Services of Alaska, and Nome Public School District (78 filings combined, ~98% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Nome, AK: DOL H-1B disclosure filings.

Headline sponsors: Bering Strait School District, Education Services of Alaska, and Nome Public School District, together 78 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.

Nome, AK reads as a concentrated labor market: Educational Services alone covers about 80% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.

Bering Strait School District plus Education Services of Alaska account for about 98% of Nome, AK'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 Nome, AK in this corpus, a cleaner local stability read than metros where large sponsors have filed reductions.

Same-state context for Nome, AK: Anchorage, AK (20 employers); Fairbanks, AK (7 employers); Juneau, AK (3 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 Nome, AK

#EmployerH-1B filingsMedian wage
1Bering Strait School DistrictEducational Services62$89,407
2Education Services of Alaska13$90,816
3Nome Public School DistrictEducational Services3$53,823
4Kawerak, Inc.Educational Services1$61,859
5Nome Public SchoolEducational Services1$61,860
Sources, citation, and related links for Nome, AK

Disclaimer: The Nome, AK 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 Nome, AK from DOL H-1B disclosure filings, 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.