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Raleigh, NC

Raleigh, NC is a Professional & Technical Services-heavy labor market: 259 tracked employers at a $135,000 median H-1B wage across 5,652 LCAs.

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259
Employers
$135,000
Median H-1B wage
5,652
H-1B filings

Raleigh, NC: 259 tracked employers at a $135,000 median H-1B wage across 5,652 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 Raleigh, NC (NC), PlainEmployers rolls up 259 employers at a $135,000 disclosed median with 6 employers carrying WARN history. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.

  • 259 employers
  • $135,000 median H-1B
  • 5,652 H-1B LCAs
  • 6 WARN employers

Where Raleigh, NC's median H-1B wage sits nationally

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

$135,000 Top 42% higher than 58% 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%). This entry sits in this band. $140,000–$160,000: 33,306 credible H-1B wage rows (12%). Above this entry. $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. Raleigh, NC $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

Raleigh, NC (259 employers) sits beside Charlotte, NC, Durham, NC, Cary, NC in NC's tracked roster. Open a peer metro to compare H-1B wage and WARN density. Among metros with employers in this corpus, Raleigh, NC ranks #40 of 6906 by employer count (about the 99th percentile).

Charlotte, NC 743 Durham, NC 216 Cary, NC 208 Morrisville, NC 163 Apex, NC 124 Greensboro, NC 87
Top industries Professional & Technical ServicesFinance & InsuranceInformation & MediaManufacturingEducational Services

What the data says about Raleigh, NC

Corpus placement: Raleigh, NC ranks #40 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 99th percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 126 of 259 tracked employers (~49%); next sectors in the mix are Finance & Insurance and Information & Media. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: Salesforce, Inc., CitiusTech Inc., and First Citizens Bank and Trust Co. (2,320 filings combined, ~41% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Raleigh, NC: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records; state WARN Act layoff notices, including 6 employers with WARN history.

Headline sponsors: Salesforce, Inc., CitiusTech Inc., and First Citizens Bank and Trust Co., together 2,320 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.

Raleigh, NC reads as a concentrated labor market: Professional & Technical Services alone covers about 49% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.

Salesforce, Inc. plus CitiusTech Inc. account for about 41% of Raleigh, NC'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 Raleigh, NC, 6 carry WARN Act history (30 notices, about 2,923 workers named across credible filings). That is a local stability signal separate from H-1B hiring volume.

Same-state context for Raleigh, NC: Charlotte, NC (743 employers); Durham, NC (216 employers); Cary, NC (208 employers). Employer-count gaps between these metros are why a wage offer that looks high in one city can look ordinary in another.

WARN layoff activity in Raleigh, NC

6 tracked employers with a worksite here have filed 30 WARN notices , naming about 2,923 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 Raleigh, NC

#EmployerH-1B filingsMedian wage
1Salesforce, Inc.Professional & Technical Services1,752$201,047
2CitiusTech Inc.Professional & Technical Services322$108,650
3First Citizens Bank and Trust Co.Finance & Insurance246$150,080
4Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.Manufacturing205$167,877
5Gilead Sciences, Inc.Professional & Technical Services196$159,099
6RELX, Inc.Professional & Technical Services182$147,053
7North Carolina State UniversityEducational Services158$75,000
8McKinsey & Company, Inc. United StatesProfessional & Technical Services156$243,994
9Eaton CorporationManagement of Companies78$146,116
10Emonics LLCProfessional & Technical Services76$105,373
11Siemens Energy, INC.Professional & Technical Services67$131,084
12Red Hat, Inc.Professional & Technical Services67$146,935
13WGU CorporationEducational Services61$150,000
14Burns & Mcdonnell Engineering Company, INC.55$127,487
15Augmented Reality Technologies LLC55$85,467
16Machine Intelligence LLC51$85,467
17Qualys, INC.Information & Media45$149,365
18Hitachi Energy USA INC.Construction44$114,200
19Keystone Technology Partners INCProfessional & Technical Services44$112,923
20Markit North America, Inc.Information & Media43$143,769
21Camelot Integrated Solutions IncProfessional & Technical Services43$107,411
22Collabrium Systems, LLCProfessional & Technical Services39$116,480
23Cloudera, Inc.Professional & Technical Services37$173,230
24Blackline Systems, Inc.Professional & Technical Services36$203,077
25Humac, INC.Professional & Technical Services35$111,072
Sources, citation, and related links for Raleigh, NC

Disclaimer: The Raleigh, NC 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 Raleigh, NC 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.