Metro Areas

Each metro area aggregates U.S. Department of Labor H-1B disclosure filings, OSHA injury reports, and WARN Act layoff notices for employers operating in that metropolitan statistical area. Browse the directory below or use the search-by-state index to locate a specific region. Coverage spans every metro area where at least one H-1B sponsor or OSHA-reporting employer is registered.

Metro-level views are useful for relocation research, comparative wage analysis, and benchmarking employer density. Larger metros, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, Houston, Atlanta, Washington DC, Boston, Seattle, concentrate the bulk of H-1B sponsorship and corporate headquarters, but specialty hubs (Austin for tech, Houston for energy, Boston for biotech, Detroit for automotive, Nashville for healthcare) often outperform per-capita on industry-specific wage premiums.

Federal data sources cover DOL H-1B LCA fiscal years FY2024–FY2025 (the live employer_salaries window) and OSHA Form 300A from 2018–present - see the About page for the full methodology, vintage, and refresh cadence. Wage data is reported at the prevailing-wage level disclosed on Form 9089 / LCA filings; safety data is reported from OSHA's establishment-specific recordable cases. Layoff notices are aggregated from state-level WARN portals. H-1B wage trends compare adjacent fiscal years from the same salaries table only - never a cross-source ratio.

Detail pages for each metro include the top employers by H-1B filings, mean and median wage breakdowns by occupation, the largest OSHA-reporting establishments, recent WARN notices, and aggregate metro-level statistics. Use the table below to navigate, the directory sorts by employer count by default but is fully filterable on each metro detail page. Cross-reference with our state-level pages for comparative analysis.