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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.

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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

$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. North Chicago, 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

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).

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

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

#EmployerH-1B filingsMedian wage
1AbbVie Inc.Manufacturing160$155,600
2AbbVie US LLCManufacturing28$158,000
3SGS Technologie, LLCProfessional & Technical Services26$129,147
4Primesoft, Inc.Professional & Technical Services21$112,320
5North Chicago Community Unit School District 187Educational Services17$63,101
6Unicon Sciences INCProfessional & Technical Services14$90,403
7Flysoft INC.Professional & Technical Services10$113,547
8Cloud Tekis LLCProfessional & Technical Services6$119,876
9Grey Matter Solutions, LLCProfessional & Technical Services5$77,190
10SunTechPros, Inc.Professional & Technical Services3$119,507
11Pioneer GMP Consulting LLCProfessional & Technical Services2$115,000
12Abbvie Endocrinology INC.Manufacturing1$155,000
13Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & ScienceEducational Services1$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.

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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.