Metro area · OR

Portland, OR

H-1B hiring, wages and employer concentration across 164 employers in the Portland, OR metro.

164
Employers
$125,877
Median H-1B wage
2,343
H-1B filings

The metro at a glance

Portland, OR, OR aggregates 164 tracked employers at a $125,877 median H-1B wage and 2,343 H-1B filings on record, with hiring concentrated in Professional & Technical Services and Retail Trade.

164
employers
$125,877
median H-1B wage
2,343
H-1B filings
5
top industries
Top industries Professional & Technical ServicesRetail TradeEducational ServicesHealthcare & Social AssistanceTransportation & WarehousingInformation & Media

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.

Portland, OR, OR aggregates 164 employers at a median disclosed H-1B wage of $125,877, with hiring concentrated in Professional & Technical Services, Retail Trade, Educational Services. The mix is computed from actual DOL/OSHA/WARN filings in this specific metro; see methodology for source documentation.

Headline sponsors: IBM Corporation, eBay Inc., and NIKE, Inc., together 1,510 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 Portland, OR

Which sectors the metro's tracked employers operate in

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

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

Top employers in Portland, OR

# Employer H-1B filingsMedian wage
1 IBM Corporation Professional & Technical Services 1,166 -
2 eBay Inc. Retail Trade 225 $198,575
3 NIKE, Inc. Management of Companies 119 $181,618
4 Oregon State University Educational Services 103 $81,784
5 Oregon Health & Science University Educational Services 67 $149,135
6 The University of Alabama Educational Services 61 $88,117
7 Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. Construction 55 -
8 Stantec Consulting Services Inc. Professional & Technical Services 50 $105,449
9 Altera Corporation Manufacturing 28 $159,812
10 Dollar General Corporation Retail Trade 24 $366,236
11 Compass Group USA, Inc. Accommodation & Food Services 21 $122,900
12 NIKE USA Inc. Manufacturing 20 $173,600
13 Sailpoint Technologies, Inc. Information & Media 20 $148,004
14 Cloudberg Tec Limited Company Professional & Technical Services 18 $95,549
15 CDK GLOBAL, LLC Professional & Technical Services 16 $128,074
16 CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION Manufacturing 15 $158,817
17 Daimler Truck North America LLC Administrative & Waste Services 14 $131,426
18 EvonSys, Inc. Professional & Technical Services 13 $138,913
19 Terracon Consultants, Inc. Professional & Technical Services 13 $102,601
20 Ampere Computing LLC Manufacturing 11 $177,120
21 Turner Construction Company Construction 11 $130,619
22 CEREBRAS SYSTEMS INC. Professional & Technical Services 10 $214,996
23 Portland General Electric Company Utilities 10 $140,205
24 Anveta Inc Professional & Technical Services 10 $110,081
25 SRIVEN INFO INC Professional & Technical Services 9 $117,677

What this means if you work in Portland, OR

Use Portland, OR's $125,877 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 $125,877 is worth questioning, the median here is set by 164 tracked employers.
  • IBM Corporation 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.