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Redwood City, CA

Redwood City, CA is a Professional & Technical Services-heavy labor market: 161 tracked employers at a $161,067 median H-1B wage across 2,417 LCAs.

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161
Employers
$161,067
Median H-1B wage
2,417
H-1B filings

Redwood City, CA: 161 tracked employers at a $161,067 median H-1B wage across 2,417 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 Redwood City, CA (CA), PlainEmployers rolls up 161 employers at a $161,067 disclosed median with 18 employers carrying WARN history. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.

  • 161 employers
  • $161,067 median H-1B
  • 2,417 H-1B LCAs
  • 18 WARN employers

Where Redwood City, CA's median H-1B wage sits nationally

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

$161,067 Top 25% higher than 75% 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. Redwood City, 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

Redwood City, CA (161 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, Redwood City, CA ranks #67 of 6906 by employer count (about the 99th 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 & MediaManufacturingRetail TradeFinance & Insurance

What the data says about Redwood City, CA

Corpus placement: Redwood City, CA ranks #67 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 99th percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 61 of 161 tracked employers (~38%); next sectors in the mix are Information & Media and Manufacturing. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: Eli Lilly and Company, McKinsey & Company, Inc. United States, and The Leland Stanford Jr. University (840 filings combined, ~35% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Redwood City, CA: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records; state WARN Act layoff notices, including 18 employers with WARN history.

Headline sponsors: Eli Lilly and Company, McKinsey & Company, Inc. United States, and The Leland Stanford Jr. University, together 840 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.

Redwood City, 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.

Eli Lilly and Company plus McKinsey & Company, Inc. United States account for about 35% of Redwood City, 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 Redwood City, CA, 18 carry WARN Act history (38 notices, about 4,201 workers named across credible filings). That is a local stability signal separate from H-1B hiring volume.

Within CA, Redwood City, 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 Redwood City, CA

18 tracked employers with a worksite here have filed 38 WARN notices , naming about 4,201 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 Redwood City, CA

#EmployerH-1B filingsMedian wage
1Eli Lilly and CompanyTransportation & Warehousing335$145,697
2McKinsey & Company, Inc. United States303$192,000
3The Leland Stanford Jr. UniversityEducational Services202$100,000
4Slalom, Inc.Professional & Technical Services141$144,872
5Equinix, Inc.Professional & Technical Services98$153,408
6Box, Inc.Information & Media75$202,954
7Confluent, Inc.Information & Media65$222,108
8Electronic Arts Inc.Professional & Technical Services64$153,084
9Riot Games, Inc.Professional & Technical Services59$159,328
10Informatica LLCProfessional & Technical Services57$154,149
11Auris Health, Inc.Manufacturing55$180,300
12Tempus AIProfessional & Technical Services38$153,400
13Guardant Health, Inc.Healthcare & Social Assistance36$161,637
14Tek Grove, LLCProfessional & Technical Services34$110,240
15Pi Square Technologies LLCProfessional & Technical Services28$96,050
16Moloco, Inc.Professional & Technical Services27$200,500
17Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.Manufacturing25$181,750
18Tubi, Inc.Information & Media24$222,589
19Zuora, Inc.Professional & Technical Services24$173,581
20Digital Intelligence Systems, LLCProfessional & Technical Services24$141,887
21Epic Games, Inc.Information & Media23$185,000
22Johnson & Johnson Services, Inc.23$160,000
23Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP23$260,000
24Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.Manufacturing21$114,349
25Revolution Medicines, INC.Manufacturing20$190,000
Sources, citation, and related links for Redwood City, CA

Disclaimer: The Redwood City, 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 Redwood City, 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.