H-1B sponsorship profile: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. Across U.S. Department of Labor LCA disclosures, Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp filed 6 Labor Condition Applications covering 6 H-1B worker positions between fiscal year 2023 and fiscal year 2025. The employer’s DOL certification rate sits at 100% (6 certified of 6 filed), a useful proxy for how cleanly their prevailing-wage attestations pass the Labor Department’s preliminary review before USCIS adjudication.

Compensation spread. Offered wages on Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp’s H-1B petitions range from $92,019 at the low end to $153,837 at the high end, with a petition-weighted average of $113,288. That range reflects the mix of occupations the company sponsors, led by Associate Principal Scientist, Statistical Programming (2 petitions at $97,885 avg), followed by Senior Scientist, Statistical Programming and Senior Scientist, Biostatistics. H-1B salaries reported on LCAs must meet or exceed the DOL prevailing wage for the role and worksite, so the spread also tracks wage-level geography and seniority.

Geographic footprint. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp is headquartered in Kenilworth, NJ under NAICS code 54171, and places H-1B workers across 2 states, most heavily in NJ, PA. Combined, these signals give a granular view of how one employer uses the H-1B program, volume, approval cleanliness, wage posture, and where the jobs actually sit on the map.

Where Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp ranks. By H-1B petition volume, Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp is #23,486 of 119,880 employers nationally and #1,770 of 5,818 employers headquartered in NJ. Both ranks are computed live from the same underlying petition counts, not a separate estimate.