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San Jose, CA

San Jose, CA is a Professional & Technical Services-heavy labor market: 778 tracked employers at a $152,000 median H-1B wage across 21,027 LCAs.

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778
Employers
$152,000
Median H-1B wage
21,027
H-1B filings

San Jose, CA: 778 tracked employers at a $152,000 median H-1B wage across 21,027 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 Jose, CA (CA), PlainEmployers rolls up 778 employers at a $152,000 disclosed median with 63 employers carrying WARN history. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.

  • 778 employers
  • $152,000 median H-1B
  • 21,027 H-1B LCAs
  • 63 WARN employers

Where San Jose, CA's median H-1B wage sits nationally

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

$152,000 Top 30% higher than 70% 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%). This entry sits in this band. $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. San Jose, 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

San Jose, CA (778 employers) sits beside San Francisco, CA, Los Angeles, 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 Jose, CA ranks #11 of 6906 by employer count (about the 100th percentile).

San Francisco, CA 1,764 Los Angeles, CA 836 San Diego, CA 495 Irvine, CA 454 Santa Clara, CA 405 Sunnyvale, CA 392
Top industries Professional & Technical ServicesManufacturingInformation & MediaFinance & InsuranceHealthcare & Social Assistance

What the data says about San Jose, CA

Corpus placement: San Jose, CA ranks #11 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 100th percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 317 of 778 tracked employers (~41%); next sectors in the mix are Manufacturing and Information & Media. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: Capgemini America INC, Intel Corporation, and PayPal, Inc. (5,469 filings combined, ~26% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for San Jose, CA: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records; state WARN Act layoff notices, including 63 employers with WARN history.

Headline sponsors: Capgemini America INC, Intel Corporation, and PayPal, Inc., together 5,469 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.

San Jose, CA reads as a concentrated labor market: Professional & Technical Services alone covers about 41% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.

Capgemini America INC plus Intel Corporation account for about 26% of San Jose, 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 Jose, CA, 63 carry WARN Act history (270 notices, about 25,506 workers named across credible filings). That is a local stability signal separate from H-1B hiring volume.

Same-state context for San Jose, CA: San Francisco, CA (1,764 employers); Los Angeles, CA (836 employers); San Diego, CA (495 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 San Jose, CA

63 tracked employers with a worksite here have filed 270 WARN notices , naming about 25,506 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 Jose, CA

#EmployerH-1B filingsMedian wage
1Capgemini America INCProfessional & Technical Services2,299$131,748
2Intel CorporationManufacturing1,938$133,432
3PayPal, Inc.Finance & Insurance1,232$169,000
4Adobe Inc.Professional & Technical Services1,071$177,064
5TT Commerce & Global Services LLC901$195,843
6eBay Inc.Retail Trade644$194,033
7Bytedance INC.Administrative & Waste Services548$210,000
8Deloitte Tax LLPProfessional & Technical Services444$114,274
9T-Mobile USA, Inc.Information & Media442$151,606
10Expedia, Inc.Information & Media412$149,240
11TikTok Inc.Information & Media406$203,460
12Asml US, LPManufacturing297$131,186
13Arm, Inc.Manufacturing283$143,437
14Western Digital Technologies, Inc.Manufacturing264$146,758
15Micron Technology, Inc.Management of Companies263$136,876
16Populus Group LLCAdministrative & Waste Services249$128,960
17Cadence Design Systems, Inc.Manufacturing212$155,168
18Gilead Sciences, Inc.Professional & Technical Services196$159,099
19Intraedge, INC.Professional & Technical Services176$111,072
20Zoom Communications, Inc.Professional & Technical Services169$178,620
21Samsung Austin Semiconductor, LLCManufacturing167$122,075
22Xilinx, Inc.Manufacturing164$179,473
23Natsoft CORPORATIONProfessional & Technical Services164$131,602
24Nxp USA, INC.Manufacturing157$134,506
25Akamai Technologies, Inc.Information & Media150$168,335
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Disclaimer: The San Jose, 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 San Jose, 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.