Metro area · PA

Philadelphia, PA

H-1B hiring, wages and employer concentration across 287 employers in the Philadelphia, PA metro.

287
Employers
$130,200
Median H-1B wage
4,400
H-1B filings

The metro at a glance

Philadelphia, PA, PA aggregates 287 tracked employers at a $130,200 median H-1B wage and 4,400 H-1B filings on record, with hiring concentrated in Professional & Technical Services and Information & Media.

287
employers
$130,200
median H-1B wage
4,400
H-1B filings
5
top industries
Top industries Professional & Technical ServicesInformation & MediaHealthcare & Social AssistanceEducational ServicesOther ServicesFinance & Insurance

What the data says about this metro

Metro pages on PlainEmployers gather every employer whose federal filings tie to a single regional labor market, so you can see where H-1B hiring concentrates, which sectors dominate, and how often layoffs are filed in one place. Every figure below comes from the same three public datasets behind individual profiles, the Department of Labor H-1B disclosures, OSHA injury records, and state WARN Act notices, aggregated across the metro. Use these regional numbers as the backdrop against which any single local employer should be read.

Philadelphia, PA, PA aggregates 287 employers at a median disclosed H-1B wage of $130,200, with hiring concentrated in Professional & Technical Services, Information & Media, Healthcare & Social Assistance. The mix is computed from actual DOL/OSHA/WARN filings in this specific metro; see methodology for source documentation.

Headline sponsors: Deloitte Consulting LLP, Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, and Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, together 2,187 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.

Metro-area figures sum the employer records tied to this region's labor market, based on WARN Act notices and US Department of Labor data. Geographic boundaries are approximate: a filing is attributed to the metro of the affected worksite, so a multi-site employer may appear across several metros, and remote reductions can be hard to localize. Local economic conditions, seasonal patterns, and the presence of one or two very large employers can all skew a metro's totals. Use these numbers to understand the broad shape of activity in the area, not as a precise census, and consult the individual records and the methodology for the underlying detail.

Employer mix in Philadelphia, PA

Which sectors the metro's tracked employers operate in

employers

What this shows Professional & Technical Services is the largest tracked sector in Philadelphia, PA, shaping the metro's wage and hiring profile.

Source DOL H-1B, OSHA & WARN filings mapped to NAICS sector

Top employers in Philadelphia, PA

# Employer H-1B filingsMedian wage
1 Deloitte Consulting LLP Professional & Technical Services 1,629 $149,145
2 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Healthcare & Social Assistance 280 -
3 Comcast Cable Communications, LLC Information & Media 278 $145,590
4 Deloitte Tax LLP Professional & Technical Services 243 $138,503
5 Cigna-Evernorth Services Inc. Finance & Insurance 165 $144,593
6 ZS Associates, Inc. Professional & Technical Services 143 $189,190
7 Yahoo Holdings Inc. Information & Media 100 $165,664
8 The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Healthcare & Social Assistance 95 $70,917
9 Lam Research Corporation Manufacturing 71 $137,765
10 PwC US Tax LLP Professional & Technical Services 54 $170,981
11 PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLP Professional & Technical Services 52 $150,836
12 Temple University--A Commonwealth University Educational Services 50 $93,493
13 Emonics LLC Professional & Technical Services 48 $88,401
14 Macquarie Holdings (USA) Inc. Management of Companies 39 $189,692
15 LORSHI SYSTEMS LLC Professional & Technical Services 38 $100,438
16 GlaxoSmithKline LLC Manufacturing 36 $140,205
17 Amdocs, Inc. Professional & Technical Services 35 $135,621
18 Thomas Jefferson University Educational Services 34 $111,597
19 Grant Thornton Advisors LLC Professional & Technical Services 33 $145,225
20 PROMATRIX CORP Professional & Technical Services 29 $112,284
21 Caprus IT Inc Professional & Technical Services 28 $109,386
22 SecureNet Systems Corporation Professional & Technical Services 26 $93,526
23 BlackRock Investment Management, LLC Finance & Insurance 24 $153,296
24 WILLIS TOWERS WATSON US LLC Professional & Technical Services 24 $125,204
25 ACE American Insurance Company Finance & Insurance 24 $160,545

What this means if you work in Philadelphia, PA

Use Philadelphia, PA's $130,200 median as the local benchmark, H-1B wages are legally tied to each metro's prevailing wage, so the same role pays differently city to city.

  • A same-role H-1B offer well below $130,200 is worth questioning, the median here is set by 287 tracked employers.
  • Deloitte Consulting LLP leads local H-1B sponsorship; compare its pay and safety grade against peers before applying. Compare employers
  • Check an employer’s WARN layoff history for job-stability risk in this metro. Largest layoffs

Metro figures aggregate worksites by city; a multi-site employer can appear across several metros, and remote roles are hard to localize.