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Palo Alto, CA

Palo Alto, CA is a Professional & Technical Services-heavy labor market: 327 tracked employers at a $165,000 median H-1B wage across 14,822 LCAs.

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327
Employers
$165,000
Median H-1B wage
14,822
H-1B filings

Palo Alto, CA: 327 tracked employers at a $165,000 median H-1B wage across 14,822 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 Palo Alto, CA (CA), PlainEmployers rolls up 327 employers at a $165,000 disclosed median with 15 employers carrying WARN history. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.

  • 327 employers
  • $165,000 median H-1B
  • 14,822 H-1B LCAs
  • 15 WARN employers

Where Palo Alto, CA's median H-1B wage sits nationally

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

$165,000 Top 23% higher than 77% 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%). Below this entry. $160,000–$180,000: 22,983 credible H-1B wage rows (8%). This entry sits in this band. $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. Palo Alto, CA $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

Palo Alto, CA (327 employers) sits beside San Francisco, CA, Los Angeles, CA, San Jose, CA in CA's tracked roster. Open a peer metro to compare H-1B wage and WARN density. Among metros with employers in this corpus, Palo Alto, CA ranks #32 of 6906 by employer count (about the 100th percentile).

San Francisco, CA 1,764 Los Angeles, CA 836 San Jose, CA 778 San Diego, CA 495 Irvine, CA 454 Santa Clara, CA 405
Top industries Professional & Technical ServicesInformation & MediaFinance & InsuranceManufacturingEducational Services

What the data says about Palo Alto, CA

Corpus placement: Palo Alto, CA ranks #32 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 100th percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 124 of 327 tracked employers (~38%); next sectors in the mix are Information & Media and Finance & Insurance. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: Amazon.com Services LLC, Tesla, Inc., and Salesforce, Inc. (9,377 filings combined, ~63% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Palo Alto, CA: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records; state WARN Act layoff notices, including 15 employers with WARN history.

Headline sponsors: Amazon.com Services LLC, Tesla, Inc., and Salesforce, Inc., together 9,377 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.

Palo Alto, CA reads as a concentrated labor market: Professional & Technical Services alone covers about 38% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.

Amazon.com Services LLC plus Tesla, Inc. account for about 63% of Palo Alto, CA's H-1B filings in this corpus, so local wage medians are sensitive to those sponsors' role mix.

Among employers with a worksite mapped to Palo Alto, CA, 15 carry WARN Act history (86 notices, about 8,705 workers named across credible filings). That is a local stability signal separate from H-1B hiring volume.

Within CA, Palo Alto, CA is smaller than peers such as San Francisco, CA (1,764 employers); Los Angeles, CA (836 employers); San Jose, CA (778 employers); use those pages when you need a denser local sponsor list.

WARN layoff activity in Palo Alto, CA

15 tracked employers with a worksite here have filed 86 WARN notices , naming about 8,705 workers across credible records. Compare those employers' profiles before treating any local offer as stable; see largest WARN layoffs for corpus-wide notices.

Top employers in Palo Alto, CA

#EmployerH-1B filingsMedian wage
1Amazon.com Services LLCTransportation & Warehousing5,757$171,235
2Tesla, Inc.Manufacturing1,868$157,964
3Salesforce, Inc.Professional & Technical Services1,752$201,047
4Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.747$155,000
5Rivian Automotive, LLCOther Services592$152,000
6Pinterest, Inc.Information & Media336$180,710
7The Leland Stanford, Jr UniversityEducational Services262$101,403
8Snap INC.Information & Media248$180,710
9The Leland Stanford Jr. UniversityEducational Services202$100,000
10Palantir Technologies INC.144$145,000
11Mongodb, INC.Information & Media111$161,221
12VMware LLCProfessional & Technical Services102$186,466
13Bofa Securities, INC.Finance & Insurance98$200,000
14SAP Labs, LLCProfessional & Technical Services88$164,153
15Rubrik, Inc.Professional & Technical Services79$212,500
16Stanford Health CareHealthcare & Social Assistance68$139,000
17Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies, LLCProfessional & Technical Services67$179,273
18Ariba, Inc.Professional & Technical Services62$153,790
19White & Case LLP55$225,000
20Annapurna Labs (U.S.) Inc.55$187,741
21Tinder LLCProfessional & Technical Services48$190,480
22Omnissa, LLCInformation & Media47$214,696
23Rivian, LLCProfessional & Technical Services47$145,000
24AppLovin CorporationInformation & Media44$187,741
25Tencent America LLCProfessional & Technical Services41$220,000
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Disclaimer: The Palo Alto, CA 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 Palo Alto, CA from DOL H-1B disclosure filings, OSHA Injury Tracking Application records and state WARN Act layoff notices, 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.