Metro area · CA

San Francisco, CA

H-1B hiring, wages and employer concentration across 1,312 employers in the San Francisco, CA metro.

1,312
Employers
$165,000
Median H-1B wage
18,180
H-1B filings

The metro at a glance

San Francisco, CA, CA aggregates 1,312 tracked employers at a $165,000 median H-1B wage and 18,180 H-1B filings on record, with hiring concentrated in Professional & Technical Services and Transportation & Warehousing.

1,312
employers
$165,000
median H-1B wage
18,180
H-1B filings
5
top industries
Top industries Professional & Technical ServicesTransportation & WarehousingHealthcare & Social AssistanceRetail TradeFinance & InsuranceManufacturing

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.

San Francisco, CA, CA aggregates 1,312 employers at a median disclosed H-1B wage of $165,000, with hiring concentrated in Professional & Technical Services, Transportation & Warehousing, Healthcare & Social Assistance. The mix is computed from actual DOL/OSHA/WARN filings in this specific metro; see methodology for source documentation.

Headline sponsors: Google LLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Salesforce, Inc., together 4,584 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 San Francisco, CA

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 San Francisco, CA, shaping the metro's wage and hiring profile.

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

Top employers in San Francisco, CA

# Employer H-1B filingsMedian wage
1 Google LLC Professional & Technical Services 2,367 $355,887
2 JPMorgan Chase & Co. Management of Companies 1,353 $162,804
3 Salesforce, Inc. Professional & Technical Services 864 $222,778
4 Tesla, Inc. Manufacturing 856 $159,976
5 Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. Information & Media 638 $169,477
6 Cisco Systems, Inc. Manufacturing 510 $147,817
7 Uber Technologies, Inc. Professional & Technical Services 378 $193,074
8 PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS ADVISORY SERVICES LLC Professional & Technical Services 341 $187,546
9 LINKEDIN CORPORATION Information & Media 328 $175,238
10 Adobe Inc. Professional & Technical Services 284 $200,809
11 U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Finance & Insurance 282 $133,766
12 DoorDash, Inc. Professional & Technical Services 257 $180,193
13 Bloomberg L.P. Information & Media 224 $151,311
14 CitiusTech Inc. Professional & Technical Services 208 $108,202
15 AMAZON WEB SERVICES, INC. Information & Media 192 $163,773
16 University of California, San Francisco Educational Services 187 -
17 Amgen Inc. Professional & Technical Services 170 $149,065
18 Docusign Inc. Professional & Technical Services 166 $196,224
19 Databricks, Inc. Professional & Technical Services 155 $170,998
20 Pinterest, Inc. Information & Media 147 $170,307
21 Visa U.S.A. Inc. Finance & Insurance 146 $181,819
22 Stripe, Inc. Finance & Insurance 144 $207,358
23 ZS Associates, Inc. Professional & Technical Services 143 $189,190
24 University of California, Davis Educational Services 123 $111,502
25 MPG Operations LLC Finance & Insurance 115 $123,805

What this means if you work in San Francisco, CA

Use San Francisco, CA's $165,000 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 $165,000 is worth questioning, the median here is set by 1,312 tracked employers.
  • Google LLC 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.