Metro area · CA
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, CA is a Professional & Technical Services-heavy labor market: 1,764 tracked employers at a $170,637 median H-1B wage across 40,816 LCAs.
- 1,764
- Employers
- $170,637
- Median H-1B wage
- 40,816
- H-1B filings
San Francisco, CA: 1,764 tracked employers at a $170,637 median H-1B wage across 40,816 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 San Francisco, CA (CA), PlainEmployers rolls up 1,764 employers at a $170,637 disclosed median with 80 employers carrying WARN history. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.
- 1,764 employers
- $170,637 median H-1B
- 40,816 H-1B LCAs
- 80 WARN employers
Where San Francisco, CA's median H-1B wage sits nationally
Metro median disclosed wage vs every credible H-1B wage row
$170,637 Top 21% higher than 79% of 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows
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
San Francisco, CA (1,764 employers) sits beside Los Angeles, CA, San Jose, CA, San Diego, 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, San Francisco, CA ranks #2 of 6906 by employer count (about the 100th percentile).
What the data says about San Francisco, CA
Corpus placement: San Francisco, CA ranks #2 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 100th percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 634 of 1,764 tracked employers (~36%); next sectors in the mix are Information & Media and Finance & Insurance. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: Google LLC, Amazon.com Services LLC, and Tesla, Inc. (12,612 filings combined, ~31% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for San Francisco, CA: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records; state WARN Act layoff notices, including 80 employers with WARN history.
Headline sponsors: Google LLC, Amazon.com Services LLC, and Tesla, Inc., together 12,612 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.
San Francisco, CA reads as a concentrated labor market: Professional & Technical Services alone covers about 36% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.
Google LLC plus Amazon.com Services LLC account for about 31% of San Francisco, 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 San Francisco, CA, 80 carry WARN Act history (385 notices, about 43,580 workers named across credible filings). That is a local stability signal separate from H-1B hiring volume.
Within CA, San Francisco, CA is among denser labor markets versus Los Angeles, CA (836 employers); San Jose, CA (778 employers); San Diego, CA (495 employers); its median and mix are less likely to swing on a single filing.
WARN layoff activity in San Francisco, CA
80 tracked employers with a worksite here have filed 385 WARN notices , naming about 43,580 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 San Francisco, CA
| # | Employer | H-1B filings | Median wage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Google LLCProfessional & Technical Services | 5,397 | $193,915 |
| 2 | Amazon.com Services LLC | 5,347 | $198,330 |
| 3 | Tesla, Inc.Manufacturing | 1,868 | $157,964 |
| 4 | Salesforce, Inc.Professional & Technical Services | 1,752 | $201,047 |
| 5 | JPMorgan Chase & Co.Management of Companies | 1,353 | $162,804 |
| 6 | Cisco Systems, Inc.Manufacturing | 1,167 | $148,800 |
| 7 | Linkedin CORPORATIONInformation & Media | 1,150 | $179,079 |
| 8 | Adobe Inc.Professional & Technical Services | 1,071 | $177,064 |
| 9 | TT Commerce & Global Services LLC | 901 | $195,843 |
| 10 | Uber Technologies, Inc.Professional & Technical Services | 734 | $199,800 |
| 11 | Pricewaterhousecoopers Advisory Services LLCProfessional & Technical Services | 690 | $186,000 |
| 12 | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.Information & Media | 638 | $169,477 |
| 13 | DoorDash, Inc.Professional & Technical Services | 406 | $180,710 |
| 14 | Pinterest, Inc.Information & Media | 336 | $180,710 |
| 15 | University of California, San FranciscoEducational Services | 335 | $93,200 |
| 16 | Databricks, Inc.Professional & Technical Services | 333 | $167,024 |
| 17 | Docusign Inc.Professional & Technical Services | 329 | $200,907 |
| 18 | CitiusTech Inc.Professional & Technical Services | 322 | $108,650 |
| 19 | Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. | 313 | $149,510 |
| 20 | Amgen Inc.Professional & Technical Services | 298 | $140,623 |
| 21 | Goldman Sachs Bank USAFinance & Insurance | 294 | $106,900 |
| 22 | U.S. Bank National AssociationFinance & Insurance | 282 | $133,766 |
| 23 | ZS Associates, Inc.Professional & Technical Services | 242 | $164,000 |
| 24 | Bloomberg L.P.Information & Media | 224 | $151,311 |
| 25 | Visa U.S.A. Inc. | 219 | $153,109 |
Sources, citation, and related links for San Francisco, CA
Disclaimer: The San Francisco, CA overview is informational only and is not professional advice. Consult a qualified professional before employment, hiring, or compliance decisions based on this data.
PlainEmployers renders San Francisco, 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.