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West Des Moines, IA

West Des Moines, IA is a Professional & Technical Services-heavy labor market: 27 tracked employers at a $112,923 median H-1B wage across 334 LCAs.

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27
Employers
$112,923
Median H-1B wage
334
H-1B filings

West Des Moines, IA: 27 tracked employers at a $112,923 median H-1B wage across 334 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 West Des Moines, IA (IA), PlainEmployers rolls up 27 employers at a $112,923 disclosed median. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.

  • 27 employers
  • $112,923 median H-1B
  • 334 H-1B LCAs

Where West Des Moines, IA's median H-1B wage sits nationally

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

$112,923 Top 60% higher than 40% 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. West Des Moines, IA $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

West Des Moines, IA (27 employers) sits beside Des Moines, IA, Cedar Rapids, IA, Johnston, IA in IA's tracked roster. Open a peer metro to compare H-1B wage and WARN density. Among metros with employers in this corpus, West Des Moines, IA ranks #448 of 6906 by employer count (about the 93rd percentile).

Des Moines, IA 52 Cedar Rapids, IA 33 Johnston, IA 15 Ames, IA 15 Waukee, IA 11 Sioux City, IA 11
Top industries Professional & Technical ServicesFinance & InsuranceHealthcare & Social AssistanceEducational ServicesOther Services

What the data says about West Des Moines, IA

Corpus placement: West Des Moines, IA ranks #448 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 93rd percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 11 of 27 tracked employers (~41%); next sectors in the mix are Finance & Insurance and Healthcare & Social Assistance. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: Pioneer Consulting Services LLC, Athene Annuity and Life Company, and Nationwide Insurance (179 filings combined, ~54% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for West Des Moines, IA: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records.

Headline sponsors: Pioneer Consulting Services LLC, Athene Annuity and Life Company, and Nationwide Insurance, together 179 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.

West Des Moines, IA reads as a concentrated labor market: Professional & Technical Services alone covers about 41% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.

Pioneer Consulting Services LLC plus Athene Annuity and Life Company account for about 54% of West Des Moines, IA'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 West Des Moines, IA in this corpus, a cleaner local stability read than metros where large sponsors have filed reductions.

Same-state context for West Des Moines, IA: Des Moines, IA (52 employers); Cedar Rapids, IA (33 employers); Johnston, IA (15 employers). Employer-count gaps between these metros are why a wage offer that looks high in one city can look ordinary in another.

Top employers in West Des Moines, IA

# Employer H-1B filingsMedian wage
1 Pioneer Consulting Services LLC Professional & Technical Services 123 $112,923
2 Athene Annuity and Life Company Finance & Insurance 28 $140,270
3 Nationwide Insurance Finance & Insurance 28 $385,298
4 Sicl America INC Professional & Technical Services 26 $98,800
5 Iowa Physicians Clinic Medical Foundation Healthcare & Social Assistance 20 -
6 Global Soft Systems, Inc. Professional & Technical Services 15 $112,923
7 Quality Consulting, Inc. Professional & Technical Services 14 $122,400
8 Techgroup America INC. Professional & Technical Services 11 $106,725
9 StoneX Group Inc. Management of Companies 10 $127,167
10 FBL Financial Group, Inc. Finance & Insurance 9 $124,302
11 EPATHUSA Inc. Professional & Technical Services 6 $97,680
12 Adven Technologies Inc Professional & Technical Services 6 $82,500
13 American Equity Investment Life Insurance Company Finance & Insurance 5 $113,239
14 Staffigo Technical Services, LLC Professional & Technical Services 4 $76,482
15 Orchid Orthopedic Solutions, LLC Manufacturing 4 $130,154
16 Pioneer Global, Inc. 4 $80,000
17 The Weitz Group LLC 3 $99,466
18 EquiTrust Life Insurance Company Finance & Insurance 3 $109,667
19 Millennium Softtech Inc Professional & Technical Services 3 $113,000
20 Ameriteam Services, LLC Healthcare & Social Assistance 3 $132,350
21 dotSolved Systems, Inc. Professional & Technical Services 2 $117,058
22 Outcomes Operating, Inc. Professional & Technical Services 2 $146,500
23 Claimable, Inc. 1 $110,000
24 Des Moines University Osteopathic Medical Center Educational Services 1 $53,851
25 Lutheran Church of Hope Other Services 1 $48,000
Sources, citation, and related links for West Des Moines, IA

Disclaimer: The West Des Moines, IA 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 West Des Moines, IA 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.