Metro Areas
3,365 metropolitan areas with H-1B employer data
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 the period 2020–2024 (DOL fiscal years) and 2018–present (OSHA Form 300A) — 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.
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.