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Stanford, CA

Stanford, CA is a Professional & Technical Services-heavy labor market: 15 tracked employers at a $93,953 median H-1B wage across 858 LCAs.

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15
Employers
$93,953
Median H-1B wage
858
H-1B filings

Stanford, CA: 15 tracked employers at a $93,953 median H-1B wage across 858 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 Stanford, CA (CA), PlainEmployers rolls up 15 employers at a $93,953 disclosed median with 2 employers carrying WARN history. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.

  • 15 employers
  • $93,953 median H-1B
  • 858 H-1B LCAs
  • 2 WARN employers

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

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

$93,953 Top 77% higher than 23% 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%). This entry sits in this band. $100,000–$120,000: 49,740 credible H-1B wage rows (18%). Above this entry. $120,000–$140,000: 42,626 credible H-1B wage rows (16%). Above this entry. $140,000–$160,000: 33,306 credible H-1B wage rows (12%). Above this entry. $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. Stanford, 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

Stanford, CA (15 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, Stanford, CA ranks #715 of 6906 by employer count (about the 89th 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
Top industries Professional & Technical ServicesEducational ServicesManufacturingHealthcare & Social Assistance

What the data says about Stanford, CA

Corpus placement: Stanford, CA ranks #715 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 89th percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 6 of 15 tracked employers (~40%); next sectors in the mix are Educational Services and Healthcare & Social Assistance. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: The Leland Stanford, Jr University, The Leland Stanford Jr. University, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (612 filings combined, ~71% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Stanford, CA: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records; state WARN Act layoff notices, including 2 employers with WARN history.

Headline sponsors: The Leland Stanford, Jr University, The Leland Stanford Jr. University, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, together 612 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.

Stanford, CA reads as a concentrated labor market: Professional & Technical Services alone covers about 40% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.

The Leland Stanford, Jr University plus The Leland Stanford Jr. University account for about 71% of Stanford, 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 Stanford, CA, 2 carry WARN Act history (6 notices, about 769 workers named across credible filings). That is a local stability signal separate from H-1B hiring volume.

Within CA, Stanford, 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.

WARN layoff activity in Stanford, CA

2 tracked employers with a worksite here have filed 6 WARN notices , naming about 769 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 Stanford, CA

# Employer H-1B filingsMedian wage
1 The Leland Stanford, Jr University Educational Services 262 $101,403
2 The Leland Stanford Jr. University Educational Services 202 $100,000
3 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professional & Technical Services 148 $83,513
4 Trustees Of Boston University Educational Services 135 $90,000
5 Stanford Health Care Healthcare & Social Assistance 68 $139,000
6 CZ Biohub SF, LLC Professional & Technical Services 24 $153,000
7 Cloud Hybrid Technologies LLC Professional & Technical Services 7 $96,218
8 Cloud Big Data Technologies LLC Professional & Technical Services 3 $86,348
9 Carnegie Institution for Science Professional & Technical Services 2 $111,825
10 Sandbox Inc. Professional & Technical Services 2 $161,637
11 Phylo, Inc. Manufacturing 1 $250,000
12 Stanford University Educational Services 1 $62,400
13 Bedside Health INC 1 $90,000
14 CrayCore, Inc 1 $158,080
15 Carnegie Institution of Washington d/b/a Carnegie Institution for Science 1 $77,942
Sources, citation, and related links for Stanford, CA

Disclaimer: The Stanford, 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 Stanford, 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.