H-1B sponsorship profile: Western Governors University. Across U.S. Department of Labor LCA disclosures, Western Governors University filed 31 Labor Condition Applications covering 31 H-1B worker positions between fiscal year 2023 and fiscal year 2025. The employer’s DOL certification rate sits at 96.8% (30 certified of 31 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 Western Governors University’s H-1B petitions range from $70,000 at the low end to $165,000 at the high end, with a petition-weighted average of $109,404. That range reflects the mix of occupations the company sponsors, led by Software Engineer II (9 petitions at $126,678 avg), followed by Instructor and Senior Software Engineer. 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. Western Governors University is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT under NAICS code 611310, and places H-1B workers across 8 states, most heavily in UT, FL, 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 Western Governors University ranks. By H-1B petition volume, Western Governors University is #7,128 of 119,880 employers nationally and #47 of 1,013 employers headquartered in UT. Both ranks are computed live from the same underlying petition counts, not a separate estimate.