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Starkville, MS

Starkville, MS is a Educational Services-heavy labor market: 5 tracked employers at a $85,000 median H-1B wage across 98 LCAs.

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5
Employers
$85,000
Median H-1B wage
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H-1B filings

Starkville, MS: 5 tracked employers at a $85,000 median H-1B wage across 98 LCAs; Educational Services leads the local roster.

According to DOL OFLC H-1B disclosures, OSHA injury logs, and state WARN Act notices mapped to worksites in Starkville, MS (MS), PlainEmployers rolls up 5 employers at a $85,000 disclosed median. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.

  • 5 employers
  • $85,000 median H-1B
  • 98 H-1B LCAs

Where Starkville, MS's median H-1B wage sits nationally

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

$85,000 Top 85% higher than 15% 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. Starkville, MS $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

Starkville, MS (5 employers) sits beside Jackson, MS, Ridgeland, MS, Olive Branch, MS in MS's tracked roster. Open a peer metro to compare H-1B wage and WARN density. Among metros with employers in this corpus, Starkville, MS ranks #1605 of 6906 by employer count (about the 73rd percentile).

Jackson, MS 21 Ridgeland, MS 14 Olive Branch, MS 10 Columbus, MS 9 Flowood, MS 8 Tupelo, MS 7
Top industries Other ServicesEducational ServicesProfessional & Technical Services

What the data says about Starkville, MS

Corpus placement: Starkville, MS ranks #1605 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 73rd percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Educational Services leads with 2 of 5 tracked employers (~40%); next sectors in the mix are Other Services and Professional & Technical Services. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: Mississippi State University, iTrending Solutions LLC, and World Wildlife Fund US (96 filings combined, ~98% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Starkville, MS: DOL H-1B disclosure filings.

Headline sponsors: Mississippi State University, iTrending Solutions LLC, and World Wildlife Fund US, together 96 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.

Starkville, MS reads as a concentrated labor market: Educational Services alone covers about 40% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.

Mississippi State University plus iTrending Solutions LLC account for about 98% of Starkville, MS's H-1B filings in this corpus, so local wage medians are sensitive to those sponsors' role mix.

No WARN Act mass-layoff notices are currently mapped to employers with a worksite in Starkville, MS in this corpus, a cleaner local stability read than metros where large sponsors have filed reductions.

Within MS, Starkville, MS is smaller than peers such as Jackson, MS (21 employers); Ridgeland, MS (14 employers); Olive Branch, MS (10 employers); use those pages when you need a denser local sponsor list.

Top employers in Starkville, MS

#EmployerH-1B filingsMedian wage
1Mississippi State UniversityEducational Services68$67,009
2iTrending Solutions LLCProfessional & Technical Services17$111,500
3World Wildlife Fund USOther Services11$144,100
4Allora Modern Wellness LLCOther Services1$104,000
5Starkville Oktibbeha Consolidated School DistrictEducational Services1$43,750
Sources, citation, and related links for Starkville, MS

Disclaimer: The Starkville, MS 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 Starkville, MS 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.