H-1B sponsorship profile: Premera Blue Cross. Across U.S. Department of Labor LCA disclosures, Premera Blue Cross filed 74 Labor Condition Applications covering 74 H-1B worker positions between fiscal year 2023 and fiscal year 2026. The employer’s DOL certification rate sits at 100% (74 certified of 74 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 Premera Blue Cross’s H-1B petitions range from $77,189 at the low end to $205,000 at the high end, with a petition-weighted average of $145,395. That range reflects the mix of occupations the company sponsors, led by Site Reliability Engineer III (9 petitions at $139,549 avg), followed by Software Development Engineer IV and Software Development Engineer III. 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. Premera Blue Cross is headquartered in MOUNTLAKE TERRACE, WA under NAICS code 524114, and places H-1B workers across 5 states, most heavily in WA, OK, TX. 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 Premera Blue Cross ranks. By H-1B petition volume, Premera Blue Cross is #3,165 of 119,880 employers nationally and #64 of 2,468 employers headquartered in WA. Both ranks are computed live from the same underlying petition counts, not a separate estimate.