Metro area · FL
Tampa, FL
Tampa, FL is a Professional & Technical Services-heavy labor market: 358 tracked employers at a $122,637 median H-1B wage across 15,919 LCAs.
- 358
- Employers
- $122,637
- Median H-1B wage
- 15,919
- H-1B filings
Tampa, FL: 358 tracked employers at a $122,637 median H-1B wage across 15,919 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 Tampa, FL (FL), PlainEmployers rolls up 358 employers at a $122,637 disclosed median with 8 employers carrying WARN history. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.
- 358 employers
- $122,637 median H-1B
- 15,919 H-1B LCAs
- 8 WARN employers
Where Tampa, FL's median H-1B wage sits nationally
Metro median disclosed wage vs every credible H-1B wage row
$122,637 Top 51% higher than 49% 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
Tampa, FL (358 employers) sits beside Miami, FL, Jacksonville, FL, Orlando, FL in FL's tracked roster. Open a peer metro to compare H-1B wage and WARN density. Among metros with employers in this corpus, Tampa, FL ranks #28 of 6906 by employer count (about the 100th percentile).
What the data says about Tampa, FL
Corpus placement: Tampa, FL ranks #28 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 100th percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 172 of 358 tracked employers (~48%); next sectors in the mix are Finance & Insurance and Manufacturing. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: Cognizant Technology Solutions US CORP, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Citibank, N.A. (11,079 filings combined, ~70% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Tampa, FL: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records; state WARN Act layoff notices, including 8 employers with WARN history.
Headline sponsors: Cognizant Technology Solutions US CORP, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Citibank, N.A., together 11,079 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.
Tampa, FL reads as a concentrated labor market: Professional & Technical Services alone covers about 48% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.
Cognizant Technology Solutions US CORP plus JPMorgan Chase & Co. account for about 70% of Tampa, FL'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 Tampa, FL, 8 carry WARN Act history (10 notices, about 1,471 workers named across credible filings). That is a local stability signal separate from H-1B hiring volume.
Same-state context for Tampa, FL: Miami, FL (501 employers); Jacksonville, FL (216 employers); Orlando, FL (206 employers). Employer-count gaps between these metros are why a wage offer that looks high in one city can look ordinary in another.
WARN layoff activity in Tampa, FL
8 tracked employers with a worksite here have filed 10 WARN notices , naming about 1,471 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 Tampa, FL
| # | Employer | H-1B filings | Median wage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cognizant Technology Solutions US CORPProfessional & Technical Services | 8,624 | $113,797 |
| 2 | JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 1,836 | $160,000 |
| 3 | Citibank, N.A.Finance & Insurance | 619 | $160,957 |
| 4 | Barclays Services Corp. | 234 | $214,990 |
| 5 | Block, Inc.Information & Media | 147 | $222,100 |
| 6 | IQVIA Inc.Professional & Technical Services | 138 | $150,000 |
| 7 | University of South FloridaEducational Services | 127 | $90,000 |
| 8 | Dell USA L.P.Wholesale Trade | 114 | $161,813 |
| 9 | Citigroup Global Markets Inc.Finance & Insurance | 106 | $200,000 |
| 10 | Virtusa Consulting Services Pvt., LTDProfessional & Technical Services | 104 | $122,070 |
| 11 | Xoriant CORPORATIONProfessional & Technical Services | 97 | $126,975 |
| 12 | MetLife Group, Inc.Finance & Insurance | 94 | $129,663 |
| 13 | Iris Software, IncProfessional & Technical Services | 82 | $120,000 |
| 14 | Publix Super Markets, Inc.Retail Trade | 73 | $166,465 |
| 15 | FedEx Dataworks, Inc.Professional & Technical Services | 67 | $138,500 |
| 16 | Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Services, LLCAdministrative & Waste Services | 63 | $145,241 |
| 17 | Penske Truck Leasing, Co., L.P.Real Estate | 57 | $122,500 |
| 18 | Blue Cross Blue Shield of MichiganManagement of Companies | 56 | $126,506 |
| 19 | Artificial Intelligence LLC | 56 | $82,472 |
| 20 | White & Case LLP | 55 | $225,000 |
| 21 | Rocket Mortgage, LLCFinance & Insurance | 54 | $120,500 |
| 22 | The Depository Trust and Clearing CorporationFinance & Insurance | 53 | $155,150 |
| 23 | Altimetrik Corp.Professional & Technical Services | 47 | $119,382 |
| 24 | Foot Locker Corporate Services, Inc.Retail Trade | 46 | $130,749 |
| 25 | Mitchell/Martin, INC.Professional & Technical Services | 45 | $142,411 |
Sources, citation, and related links for Tampa, FL
Disclaimer: The Tampa, FL 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 Tampa, FL 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.