Metro area · WA

Seattle, WA

H-1B hiring, wages and employer concentration across 611 employers in the Seattle, WA metro.

611
Employers
$158,116
Median H-1B wage
18,141
H-1B filings

The metro at a glance

Seattle, WA, WA aggregates 611 tracked employers at a $158,116 median H-1B wage and 18,141 H-1B filings on record, with hiring concentrated in Healthcare & Social Assistance and Professional & Technical Services.

611
employers
$158,116
median H-1B wage
18,141
H-1B filings
5
top industries
Top industries Healthcare & Social AssistanceProfessional & Technical ServicesInformation & MediaRetail TradeFinance & InsuranceTransportation & Warehousing

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.

Seattle, WA, WA aggregates 611 employers at a median disclosed H-1B wage of $158,116, with hiring concentrated in Healthcare & Social Assistance, Professional & Technical Services, Information & Media. The mix is computed from actual DOL/OSHA/WARN filings in this specific metro; see methodology for source documentation.

Headline sponsors: Amazon.com Services LLC, Apple Inc., and Amazon Web Services, Inc., together 9,764 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 Seattle, WA

Which sectors the metro's tracked employers operate in

employers

What this shows Professional & Technical Services is the largest tracked sector in Seattle, WA, shaping the metro's wage and hiring profile.

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

Top employers in Seattle, WA

# Employer H-1B filingsMedian wage
1 Amazon.com Services LLC Transportation & Warehousing 5,757 $171,235
2 Apple Inc. Transportation & Warehousing 2,751 $179,321
3 Amazon Web Services, Inc. Information & Media 1,256 $163,009
4 Uber Technologies, Inc. Professional & Technical Services 378 $193,074
5 Amazon Data Services, Inc Information & Media 343 $150,039
6 Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. Finance & Insurance 332 -
7 Adobe Inc. Professional & Technical Services 284 $200,809
8 ServiceNow, Inc. Professional & Technical Services 268 $159,742
9 DoorDash, Inc. Professional & Technical Services 257 $180,193
10 Lucid USA, Inc. Manufacturing 252 $177,405
11 BlackRock Financial Management, Inc. Finance & Insurance 207 $194,114
12 Expedia, Inc. Information & Media 186 $152,114
13 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company Professional & Technical Services 168 $161,720
14 People Tech Group, Inc Professional & Technical Services 160 $128,620
15 Pinterest, Inc. Information & Media 147 $170,307
16 Zoox Inc. Transportation & Warehousing 146 $174,928
17 Stripe, Inc. Finance & Insurance 144 $207,358
18 SNAP INC. Information & Media 141 $171,885
19 Battelle Memorial Institute Professional & Technical Services 118 $113,684
20 Starbucks Coffee Company Manufacturing 109 $155,565
21 DENKEN SOLUTIONS, INC. Professional & Technical Services 107 $111,794
22 University of Washington Healthcare & Social Assistance 103 $114,918
23 Concentrix CVG Customer Management Group Inc. Administrative & Waste Services 99 $128,131
24 Nordstrom, Inc. Retail Trade 99 $168,079
25 AIRBNB, INC. Administrative & Waste Services 96 $181,689

What this means if you work in Seattle, WA

Use Seattle, WA's $158,116 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 $158,116 is worth questioning, the median here is set by 611 tracked employers.
  • Amazon.com Services 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.