Metro area · VA

Suffolk, VA

Suffolk, VA is a Healthcare & Social Assistance-heavy labor market: 5 tracked employers at a $200,000 median H-1B wage across 27 LCAs.

Census QuickFacts → · OSHA injury data →

5
Employers
$200,000
Median H-1B wage
27
H-1B filings

Suffolk, VA: 5 tracked employers at a $200,000 median H-1B wage across 27 LCAs; Healthcare & Social Assistance leads the local roster.

According to DOL OFLC H-1B disclosures, OSHA injury logs, and state WARN Act notices mapped to worksites in Suffolk, VA (VA), PlainEmployers rolls up 5 employers at a $200,000 disclosed median. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.

  • 5 employers
  • $200,000 median H-1B
  • 27 H-1B LCAs

Where Suffolk, VA's median H-1B wage sits nationally

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

$200,000 Top 12% higher than 88% 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%). Below this entry. $160,000–$180,000: 22,983 credible H-1B wage rows (8%). Below this entry. $180,000–$200,000: 15,711 credible H-1B wage rows (6%). Below this entry. $200,000–$220,000: 10,825 credible H-1B wage rows (4%). This entry sits in this band. $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. Suffolk, VA $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

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

Mclean, VA 250 Richmond, VA 204 Reston, VA 158 Arlington, VA 158 Herndon, VA 157 Ashburn, VA 153
Top industries Healthcare & Social AssistanceProfessional & Technical ServicesEducational ServicesPublic Administration

What the data says about Suffolk, VA

Corpus placement: Suffolk, VA ranks #1605 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 73rd percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Healthcare & Social Assistance leads with 2 of 5 tracked employers (~40%); next sectors in the mix are Educational Services and Professional & Technical Services. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: Sentara Medical Group, Virginia Department of Transportation, and Bayview Physician Services, P.C. (25 filings combined, ~93% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Suffolk, VA: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records.

Headline sponsors: Sentara Medical Group, Virginia Department of Transportation, and Bayview Physician Services, P.C., together 25 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.

Suffolk, VA reads as a concentrated labor market: Healthcare & Social Assistance alone covers about 40% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.

Sentara Medical Group plus Virginia Department of Transportation account for about 93% of Suffolk, VA'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 Suffolk, VA in this corpus, a cleaner local stability read than metros where large sponsors have filed reductions.

Within VA, Suffolk, VA is smaller than peers such as Mclean, VA (250 employers); Richmond, VA (204 employers); Reston, VA (158 employers); use those pages when you need a denser local sponsor list.

Top employers in Suffolk, VA

#EmployerH-1B filingsMedian wage
1Sentara Medical GroupHealthcare & Social Assistance12$278,576
2Virginia Department of TransportationPublic Administration11$129,574
3Bayview Physician Services, P.C.Healthcare & Social Assistance2$210,000
4Knit, Inc.Professional & Technical Services1$210,000
5Relay ElectricEducational Services1$42,000
Sources, citation, and related links for Suffolk, VA

Disclaimer: The Suffolk, VA overview is informational only and is not professional advice. Consult a qualified professional before employment, hiring, or compliance decisions based on this data.

All U.S. metro employer hubs → H-1B & OSHA employer rankings → Data sourcing methodology →

PlainEmployers renders Suffolk, VA from DOL H-1B disclosure filings and OSHA Injury Tracking Application records, 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.