Metro area · CA
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.
- 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
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).
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 filings | Median wage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Leland Stanford, Jr UniversityEducational Services | 262 | $101,403 |
| 2 | The Leland Stanford Jr. UniversityEducational Services | 202 | $100,000 |
| 3 | Howard Hughes Medical InstituteProfessional & Technical Services | 148 | $83,513 |
| 4 | Trustees Of Boston UniversityEducational Services | 135 | $90,000 |
| 5 | Stanford Health CareHealthcare & Social Assistance | 68 | $139,000 |
| 6 | CZ Biohub SF, LLCProfessional & Technical Services | 24 | $153,000 |
| 7 | Cloud Hybrid Technologies LLCProfessional & Technical Services | 7 | $96,218 |
| 8 | Cloud Big Data Technologies LLCProfessional & Technical Services | 3 | $86,348 |
| 9 | Carnegie Institution for ScienceProfessional & Technical Services | 2 | $111,825 |
| 10 | Sandbox Inc.Professional & Technical Services | 2 | $161,637 |
| 11 | Phylo, Inc.Manufacturing | 1 | $250,000 |
| 12 | Stanford UniversityEducational 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.
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.