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Waukegan, IL

Waukegan, IL is a Professional & Technical Services-heavy labor market: 13 tracked employers at a $109,000 median H-1B wage across 199 LCAs.

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13
Employers
$109,000
Median H-1B wage
199
H-1B filings

Waukegan, IL: 13 tracked employers at a $109,000 median H-1B wage across 199 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 Waukegan, IL (IL), PlainEmployers rolls up 13 employers at a $109,000 disclosed median. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.

  • 13 employers
  • $109,000 median H-1B
  • 199 H-1B LCAs

Where Waukegan, IL's median H-1B wage sits nationally

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

$109,000 Top 63% higher than 37% 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%). This entry sits in this band. $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. Waukegan, IL $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

Waukegan, IL (13 employers) sits beside Chicago, IL, Naperville, IL, Schaumburg, IL in IL's tracked roster. Open a peer metro to compare H-1B wage and WARN density. Among metros with employers in this corpus, Waukegan, IL ranks #809 of 6906 by employer count (about the 88th percentile).

Chicago, IL 1,288 Naperville, IL 138 Schaumburg, IL 101 Aurora, IL 92 Buffalo Grove, IL 54 Peoria, IL 44
Top industries Professional & Technical ServicesManufacturingFinance & InsuranceWholesale TradeEducational Services

What the data says about Waukegan, IL

Corpus placement: Waukegan, IL ranks #809 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 88th percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 7 of 13 tracked employers (~54%); next sectors in the mix are Educational Services and Finance & Insurance. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: LS Solutions, Inc., Uline, Inc., and Wall Street Consulting Services LLC (125 filings combined, ~63% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Waukegan, IL: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records.

Headline sponsors: LS Solutions, Inc., Uline, Inc., and Wall Street Consulting Services LLC, together 125 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.

Waukegan, IL reads as a concentrated labor market: Professional & Technical Services alone covers about 54% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.

LS Solutions, Inc. plus Uline, Inc. account for about 63% of Waukegan, IL'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 Waukegan, IL in this corpus, a cleaner local stability read than metros where large sponsors have filed reductions.

Within IL, Waukegan, IL is smaller than peers such as Chicago, IL (1,288 employers); Naperville, IL (138 employers); Schaumburg, IL (101 employers); use those pages when you need a denser local sponsor list.

Top employers in Waukegan, IL

# Employer H-1B filingsMedian wage
1 LS Solutions, Inc. Professional & Technical Services 63 $92,000
2 Uline, Inc. Wholesale Trade 36 $139,891
3 Wall Street Consulting Services LLC Professional & Technical Services 26 $86,653
4 Smbc Manubank Finance & Insurance 24 $126,818
5 CodeRepo LLC Professional & Technical Services 23 $109,283
6 Dynamic Enterprise Solutions Inc Professional & Technical Services 8 $130,707
7 Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 Educational Services 6 $89,972
8 Krdl USA, INC Professional & Technical Services 5 $107,773
9 Rise Edge INC 4 $103,307
10 Pfanstiehl, Inc. Manufacturing 1 $110,000
11 Woodland Foods LLC 1 $96,928
12 Lucent IT solutions Professional & Technical Services 1 $108,077
13 Phonetic Consulting Services INC. Professional & Technical Services 1 $106,558
Sources, citation, and related links for Waukegan, IL

Disclaimer: The Waukegan, IL 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 Waukegan, IL 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.