Metro area · CA

Santa Maria, CA

Santa Maria, CA spreads H-1B hiring across 4+ sectors (5 employers, $143,333 median wage) rather than one dominant NAICS group.

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5
Employers
$143,333
Median H-1B wage
7
H-1B filings

Santa Maria, CA: 5 tracked employers at a $143,333 median H-1B wage across 7 LCAs; Agriculture & Forestry leads the local roster.

According to DOL OFLC H-1B disclosures, OSHA injury logs, and state WARN Act notices mapped to worksites in Santa Maria, CA (CA), PlainEmployers rolls up 5 employers at a $143,333 disclosed median. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.

  • 5 employers
  • $143,333 median H-1B
  • 7 H-1B LCAs

Where Santa Maria, CA's median H-1B wage sits nationally

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

$143,333 Top 36% higher than 64% 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. Santa Maria, 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

Santa Maria, CA (5 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, Santa Maria, CA ranks #1605 of 6906 by employer count (about the 73rd 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

What the data says about Santa Maria, CA

Corpus placement: Santa Maria, CA ranks #1605 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 73rd percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Agriculture & Forestry leads with 1 of 5 tracked employers (~20%); next sectors in the mix are Manufacturing and Other Services. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: Bonita Packing Co., Community Health Centers of the Central Coast, Inc., and JS Audit Group, Inc. (5 filings combined, ~71% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Santa Maria, CA: DOL H-1B disclosure filings.

Santa Maria, CA reads as a diversified labor market: the lead sector (Agriculture & Forestry) is only ~20% of tracked employers across 4 named industries, so no single NAICS group dominates the local picture.

Within CA, Santa Maria, 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.

Employer mix in Santa Maria, CA

Which sectors the metro's tracked employers operate in

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What this shows Santa Maria, CA has no runaway sector: Agriculture & Forestry leads at only ~20% across 4 named industries.

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

Top employers in Santa Maria, CA

#EmployerH-1B filingsMedian wage
1Bonita Packing Co.Agriculture & Forestry2-
2Community Health Centers of the Central Coast, Inc.2$279,000
3JS Audit Group, Inc.Professional & Technical Services1$72,000
4Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing ProjectOther Services1$143,333
5Senkox Technologies Inc.Manufacturing1$87,422

PlainEmployers renders Santa Maria, CA from DOL H-1B disclosure filings, 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.