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Waltham, MA

Waltham, MA is a Professional & Technical Services-heavy labor market: 120 tracked employers at a $142,000 median H-1B wage across 1,733 LCAs.

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120
Employers
$142,000
Median H-1B wage
1,733
H-1B filings

Waltham, MA: 120 tracked employers at a $142,000 median H-1B wage across 1,733 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 Waltham, MA (MA), PlainEmployers rolls up 120 employers at a $142,000 disclosed median with 4 employers carrying WARN history. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.

  • 120 employers
  • $142,000 median H-1B
  • 1,733 H-1B LCAs
  • 4 WARN employers

Where Waltham, MA's median H-1B wage sits nationally

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

$142,000 Top 36% higher than 64% 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%). This entry sits in this band. $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. Waltham, MA $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

Waltham, MA (120 employers) sits beside Boston, MA, Cambridge, MA, Quincy, MA in MA's tracked roster. Open a peer metro to compare H-1B wage and WARN density. Among metros with employers in this corpus, Waltham, MA ranks #100 of 6906 by employer count (about the 99th percentile).

Boston, MA 762 Cambridge, MA 282 Quincy, MA 72 Somerville, MA 67 Woburn, MA 65 Burlington, MA 63
Top industries Professional & Technical ServicesManufacturingInformation & MediaFinance & InsuranceHealthcare & Social Assistance

What the data says about Waltham, MA

Corpus placement: Waltham, MA ranks #100 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 99th percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 52 of 120 tracked employers (~43%); next sectors in the mix are Manufacturing and Information & Media. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: Siemens Industry Software Inc., Deloitte & Touche LLP, and NetApp, Inc. (732 filings combined, ~42% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Waltham, MA: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records; state WARN Act layoff notices, including 4 employers with WARN history.

Headline sponsors: Siemens Industry Software Inc., Deloitte & Touche LLP, and NetApp, Inc., together 732 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.

Waltham, MA reads as a concentrated labor market: Professional & Technical Services alone covers about 43% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.

Siemens Industry Software Inc. plus Deloitte & Touche LLP account for about 42% of Waltham, MA'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 Waltham, MA, 4 carry WARN Act history (14 notices, about 1,890 workers named across credible filings). That is a local stability signal separate from H-1B hiring volume.

Same-state context for Waltham, MA: Boston, MA (762 employers); Cambridge, MA (282 employers); Quincy, MA (72 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 Waltham, MA

4 tracked employers with a worksite here have filed 14 WARN notices , naming about 1,890 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 Waltham, MA

#EmployerH-1B filingsMedian wage
1Siemens Industry Software Inc.Information & Media319$144,705
2Deloitte & Touche LLP270$137,171
3NetApp, Inc.Professional & Technical Services143$161,741
4Zifo Technologies, INCProfessional & Technical Services88$101,543
5AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LPManufacturing78$167,000
6Dassault Systemes Americas Corp.Professional & Technical Services71$147,586
7Sanofi US Services Inc.Manufacturing50$140,733
8Aplomb Technologies INCProfessional & Technical Services40$105,000
9ZoomInfo Technologies, LLCInformation & Media33$213,000
10Trinity Partners, LLCProfessional & Technical Services30$152,546
11National Grid USA Service Company, INC.Utilities29$165,052
12Pegasystems INC.Professional & Technical Services29$179,000
13Cvent, Inc.Professional & Technical Services28$147,136
14SS&C Technologies, Inc.26$140,000
15Wolters Kluwer DXG U.S., Inc.25$148,799
16Brandeis UniversityEducational Services25$100,000
17Alkermes, Inc.Manufacturing22$139,000
18Elsevier, Inc.Administrative & Waste Services19$113,439
19LLX Solutions, LLCProfessional & Technical Services17$125,000
20Boston Dynamics, Inc.Professional & Technical Services15$220,000
21Bentley UniversityEducational Services14$140,469
22Sanofi Pasteur Inc.Manufacturing14$122,033
23Cimpress USA IncorporatedManufacturing13$179,066
24Sanofi Vaccines US Inc.11$122,450
25Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, Inc.Professional & Technical Services10$107,357
Sources, citation, and related links for Waltham, MA

Disclaimer: The Waltham, MA 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 Waltham, MA 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.