Metro area · IL
North Chicago, IL
North Chicago, IL is a Professional & Technical Services-heavy labor market: 13 tracked employers at a $144,282 median H-1B wage across 294 LCAs.
- 13
- Employers
- $144,282
- Median H-1B wage
- 294
- H-1B filings
North Chicago, IL: 13 tracked employers at a $144,282 median H-1B wage across 294 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 North Chicago, IL (IL), PlainEmployers rolls up 13 employers at a $144,282 disclosed median. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.
- 13 employers
- $144,282 median H-1B
- 294 H-1B LCAs
Where North Chicago, IL's median H-1B wage sits nationally
Metro median disclosed wage vs every credible H-1B wage row
$144,282 Top 35% higher than 65% of 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows
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
North Chicago, IL (13 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, North Chicago, IL ranks #809 of 6906 by employer count (about the 88th percentile).
What the data says about North Chicago, IL
Corpus placement: North Chicago, IL ranks #809 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 88th percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 8 of 13 tracked employers (~62%); next sectors in the mix are Manufacturing and Educational Services. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: AbbVie Inc., AbbVie US LLC, and SGS Technologie, LLC (214 filings combined, ~73% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for North Chicago, IL: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records.
Headline sponsors: AbbVie Inc., AbbVie US LLC, and SGS Technologie, LLC, together 214 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.
North Chicago, IL reads as a concentrated labor market: Professional & Technical Services alone covers about 62% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.
AbbVie Inc. plus AbbVie US LLC account for about 73% of North Chicago, 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 North Chicago, IL in this corpus, a cleaner local stability read than metros where large sponsors have filed reductions.
Within IL, North Chicago, 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 North Chicago, IL
| # | Employer | H-1B filings | Median wage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AbbVie Inc.Manufacturing | 160 | $155,600 |
| 2 | AbbVie US LLCManufacturing | 28 | $158,000 |
| 3 | SGS Technologie, LLCProfessional & Technical Services | 26 | $129,147 |
| 4 | Primesoft, Inc.Professional & Technical Services | 21 | $112,320 |
| 5 | North Chicago Community Unit School District 187Educational Services | 17 | $63,101 |
| 6 | Unicon Sciences INCProfessional & Technical Services | 14 | $90,403 |
| 7 | Flysoft INC.Professional & Technical Services | 10 | $113,547 |
| 8 | Cloud Tekis LLCProfessional & Technical Services | 6 | $119,876 |
| 9 | Grey Matter Solutions, LLCProfessional & Technical Services | 5 | $77,190 |
| 10 | SunTechPros, Inc.Professional & Technical Services | 3 | $119,507 |
| 11 | Pioneer GMP Consulting LLCProfessional & Technical Services | 2 | $115,000 |
| 12 | Abbvie Endocrinology INC.Manufacturing | 1 | $155,000 |
| 13 | Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & ScienceEducational Services | 1 | $69,493 |
Sources, citation, and related links for North Chicago, IL
Disclaimer: The North Chicago, IL overview is informational only and is not professional advice. Consult a qualified professional before employment, hiring, or compliance decisions based on this data.
PlainEmployers renders North Chicago, 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.