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Wake Forest, NC

Wake Forest, NC is a Professional & Technical Services-heavy labor market: 22 tracked employers at a $120,684 median H-1B wage across 697 LCAs.

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22
Employers
$120,684
Median H-1B wage
697
H-1B filings

Wake Forest, NC: 22 tracked employers at a $120,684 median H-1B wage across 697 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 Wake Forest, NC (NC), PlainEmployers rolls up 22 employers at a $120,684 disclosed median with 1 employers carrying WARN history. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.

  • 22 employers
  • $120,684 median H-1B
  • 697 H-1B LCAs
  • 1 WARN employers

Where Wake Forest, NC's median H-1B wage sits nationally

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

$120,684 Top 52% higher than 48% 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%). This entry sits in this band. $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. Wake Forest, NC $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

Wake Forest, NC (22 employers) sits beside Charlotte, NC, Raleigh, NC, Durham, NC in NC's tracked roster. Open a peer metro to compare H-1B wage and WARN density. Among metros with employers in this corpus, Wake Forest, NC ranks #524 of 6906 by employer count (about the 92nd percentile).

Charlotte, NC 743 Raleigh, NC 259 Durham, NC 216 Cary, NC 208 Morrisville, NC 163 Apex, NC 124
Top industries Professional & Technical ServicesEducational ServicesManufacturingHealthcare & Social AssistanceInformation & Media

What the data says about Wake Forest, NC

Corpus placement: Wake Forest, NC ranks #524 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 92nd percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 10 of 22 tracked employers (~45%); next sectors in the mix are Educational Services and Manufacturing. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: Rocket Limited Partnership, RELX, Inc., and IQVIA RDS Inc. (463 filings combined, ~66% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Wake Forest, NC: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records; state WARN Act layoff notices, including 1 employers with WARN history.

Headline sponsors: Rocket Limited Partnership, RELX, Inc., and IQVIA RDS Inc., together 463 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.

Wake Forest, NC reads as a concentrated labor market: Professional & Technical Services alone covers about 45% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.

Rocket Limited Partnership plus RELX, Inc. account for about 66% of Wake Forest, NC'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 Wake Forest, NC, 1 carry WARN Act history (1 notice, about 84 workers named across credible filings). That is a local stability signal separate from H-1B hiring volume.

Within NC, Wake Forest, NC is smaller than peers such as Charlotte, NC (743 employers); Raleigh, NC (259 employers); Durham, NC (216 employers); use those pages when you need a denser local sponsor list.

WARN layoff activity in Wake Forest, NC

1 tracked employer with a worksite here have filed 1 WARN notice , naming about 84 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 Wake Forest, NC

#EmployerH-1B filingsMedian wage
1Rocket Limited PartnershipProfessional & Technical Services233$120,000
2RELX, Inc.Professional & Technical Services182$147,053
3IQVIA RDS Inc.Manufacturing48$158,112
4Camelot Integrated Solutions IncProfessional & Technical Services43$107,411
5Toyota Material Handling Inc.Manufacturing39$95,550
6State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance CompanyFinance & Insurance38$121,118
7Eclat Solutions LLCProfessional & Technical Services27$92,810
8FiniteTek IncProfessional & Technical Services25$110,854
9PAREXEL International, LLC18$157,454
10Katalyst Healthcares & Life Sciences INC.Professional & Technical Services11$83,603
11Eresearch Technology, INC.Professional & Technical Services10$73,154
12Sigma Group INCProfessional & Technical Services4$121,800
13Sandoz Inc.Management of Companies3$149,186
14Client Focus, LLCProfessional & Technical Services3$108,389
15InfoWeb Systems, Inc.2$133,250
16Aware, Inc.2$117,520
17Envision Science AcademyEducational Services2$66,594
18Hillside Nursing Center Of Wake Forest, INCHealthcare & Social Assistance2$79,165
19Placeurtalent LLC2$135,408
20Raleigh Animal Care PLLCProfessional & Technical Services1$120,000
21Southeastern Baptist TheologicalSeminary, Inc.Educational Services1$73,653
22Identity Digital Inc.Information & Media1$163,428
Sources, citation, and related links for Wake Forest, NC

Disclaimer: The Wake Forest, NC 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 Wake Forest, NC 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.