Which state worksite has the most certified LCA filings in this index?

California ranks first with 123,286 certified cases and a median offered wage of $160,000 in the combined FY2024-FY2025 dataset used on this page.

What are the figures for the next state worksites in the ranking?

Texas ranks second with 101,315 certified cases and a median offered wage of $110,000, followed by New York with 54,396 cases and $138,091, Washington with 42,586 cases and $160,000, and New Jersey with 32,805 cases and $123,656.

How is this index organised, and how many states does it list?

This index organises certified LCA filings by the state of the worksite, the place where the work is performed, rather than by the employer's headquarters state, and lists the thirty states with the most certified filings in the combined FY2024-FY2025 dataset. All state figures are computed from certified cases only, with headline medians drawn from annual-wage filings after the published outlier rule is applied.

Salaries by State Worksite

By the H-1B Salary Data Editorial Team · Last updated: October 2026

This index organises certified LCA filings by the state of the worksite â the place where the work is performed â rather than by the employer's headquarters state. The distinction matters legally and economically: the prevailing wage for a filing is set for the area of intended employment, so a national employer filing for roles in several states faces a different wage floor in each place. Grouping by worksite state therefore shows where sponsored work is actually located and at what local price level it was offered.

State medians differ for two main reasons, and readers should keep both in mind. The first is genuine local wage variation: the same occupation is priced differently in different labour markets. The second is composition: a state whose filings concentrate in technology or finance will post a higher median than a state whose filings spread across education and general healthcare, even if each occupation is paid identically in both. Every state page on this site therefore includes its top occupations and top employers, so the composition behind its median is visible on the same page as the median itself.

The thirty states listed here are those with the most certified filings in the combined FY2024âFY2025 dataset. Smaller states still appear throughout employer and occupation pages wherever their worksites are among a filer's most common locations. Readers researching a specific place should usually go one level deeper than the state, to the city pages, because within-state variation â between a major metro and the rest of the state â is often larger than variation between neighbouring states.

All state figures are computed from certified cases only, with headline medians drawn from annual-wage filings after the published outlier rule is applied. Filing counts count cases, not individual workers, and a certified case does not by itself prove the employment started; the methodology page explains each of those limits and how this site handles them.

Rank	State (worksite)	Certified cases	Median offered wage
1	California	123,286	$160,000
2	Texas	101,315	$110,000
3	New York	54,396	$138,091
4	Washington	42,586	$160,000
5	New Jersey	32,805	$123,656
6	Illinois	27,562	$110,000
7	Georgia	25,301	$109,300
8	North Carolina	25,184	$114,000
9	Massachusetts	23,166	$122,970
10	Florida	21,912	$104,002
11	Virginia	17,694	$120,000
12	Pennsylvania	17,387	$105,206
13	Michigan	16,196	$107,500
14	Ohio	13,497	$102,045
15	Arizona	11,514	$106,000
16	Tennessee	7,888	$101,084
17	Maryland	7,756	$111,779
18	Minnesota	7,428	$105,000
19	Colorado	7,049	$117,021
20	Connecticut	6,945	$106,000
21	Missouri	6,884	$96,682
22	Indiana	6,441	$96,000
23	Arkansas	5,148	$120,000
24	Oregon	4,942	$122,158
25	Wisconsin	4,498	$96,492
26	South Carolina	3,777	$97,000
27	Utah	3,733	$101,754
28	District of Columbia	3,172	$115,000
29	Delaware	2,987	$120,000
30	Kentucky	2,738	$92,818

How These Figures Were Computed

Every figure on this page was computed by our script directly from the U.S. Department of Labor OFLC LCA disclosure files for FY2024 Q4 and FY2025 Q1âQ4, retrieved in October 2026. We kept only cases whose CASE_STATUS is exactly “Certified” â denied, withdrawn and certified-withdrawn cases are excluded. Headline medians use filings whose wage unit is a year, because annual salaries compare cleanly; hourly, weekly and monthly filings are counted in case totals but are not converted into the headline median, and our methodology page explains that choice in full. Wages below $15,080 a year (the annualized federal minimum wage at $7.25 an hour) or above $1,000,000 a year are excluded from medians as likely data-entry placeholders, and the number excluded is reported in the manifest that accompanies this site. Medians are shown alongside means because a handful of very large offers can drag a mean far above what a typical filing actually offered.