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H-1B LCA Filings in Portsmouth, NH

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LCA filing records in the Portsmouth, NH metro. U.S. Department of Labor disclosure data lists 588 Labor Condition Application filings from 107 distinct employer filers across the Portsmouth, NH metropolitan area. DOL certified 99% of those filings, a DOL record status for the prevailing-wage and working-condition attestations. This filing record does not establish a USCIS petition, an approval, a hire, confirmed sponsorship, or a visa outcome.

Where this metro sits in the corpus. Portsmouth, NH ranks #112 of 113 published metro profiles by disclosed LCA filing volume, putting it in the top 99% of the current dataset. The comparison is only about recorded filing volume in this DOL snapshot; it does not estimate local job availability, confirmed sponsorship, visa approvals, or the size of the area’s overall workforce.

Certification posture. Among metros with ≥100 LCA filings, Portsmouth, NH’s 99% DOL certification rate ranks #1 of 113. That is a comparatively high DOL certification rate for a metro of this filing volume.

Occupation mix. The occupation with the most listed LCA filings in the metro is Computer Systems Engineers/Architects. Software and computing titles account for the most listed LCA filings in this metro. The mix describes DOL filing records. It is not a measure of local demand, role eligibility, actual compensation, or hiring.

Offered wage. Across disclosed LCAs assigned to Portsmouth, NH, the average annualized offered wage is $115,379. That uses the same 15k–1M annualization guard as employer, occupation, and state pages, so a handful of unit-confused rows cannot drag the metro average into the millions.

588
LCA filings
107
Employers
$115,379
Avg offered wage
99%
Certification rate

Software-title filing market

The lead occupation is Computer Systems Engineers/Architects. Software and computing titles account for the most listed LCA filings in this metro. Filing-volume rank #112 · employer-filer breadth rank #107 · 99% DOL certification among metros with ≥100 filings where ranked.

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Annual Breakdown

Year LCA filings Certified Cert Rate
FY2023 155 154 99.4%
FY2024 161 158 98.1%
FY2025 165 165 100%
FY2026(partial) 107 105 98.1%

About This Data

H-1B Labor Condition Application (LCA) filing data is sourced from U.S. Department of Labor disclosure files. Data covers fiscal years 2023 through 2026. Metro assignment uses the Census Bureau's July 2023 CBSA county delineation plus principal-city crosswalk; average offered wages use the same 15k–1M annualization sanity band as employer, occupation, and state pages. These records do not establish USCIS petition outcomes, hiring, or actual compensation.

Data sourced from U.S. Department of Labor LCA disclosure filings. See our methodology for details.

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