H-1B sponsorship profile: Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC. Across U.S. Department of Labor LCA disclosures, Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC filed 494 Labor Condition Applications covering 494 H-1B worker positions between fiscal year 2023 and fiscal year 2026. The employer’s DOL certification rate sits at 98.4% (486 certified of 494 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 LLC’s H-1B petitions range from $68,400 at the low end to $359,800 at the high end, with a petition-weighted average of $124,525. That range reflects the mix of occupations the company sponsors, led by Associate Principal Scientist, Statistical Programming (39 petitions at $137,260 avg), followed by Senior Scientist, Statistical Programming and Associate Scientist, Post Doc Fellow. 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 LLC is headquartered in Rahway, NJ under NAICS code 54171, and places H-1B workers across 7 states, most heavily in NJ, PA, MA. 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 LLC ranks. By H-1B petition volume, Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC is #373 of 119,880 employers nationally and #32 of 5,818 employers headquartered in NJ. Both ranks are computed live from the same underlying petition counts, not a separate estimate.