H-1B activity in Florida. U.S. Department of Labor disclosure data shows 61,247 Labor Condition Applications filed on behalf of H-1B workers in Florida, spanning 11,612 distinct employers. DOL certified these petitions at a 97.1% rate, meaning the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review before USCIS took over final adjudication. That volume gives Florida a measurable footprint in the national H-1B program and a data-backed view of where foreign specialty-occupation workers are being placed on U.S. soil.

What employers are paying. The average offered wage on Florida H-1B petitions is $111,800. Because each LCA must meet or exceed the DOL prevailing wage for the specific role and worksite, this figure reflects genuine pay commitments rather than aspirational market surveys, and it varies with the mix of occupations, wage levels (I through IV), and metropolitan areas active in the state. The single most-sponsored occupation is Software Developers, which alone accounts for 18,426 petitions at an average of $114,937, followed by Computer Systems Engineers/Architects and Computer Systems Analysts.

Who does the sponsoring. The top H-1B sponsor in Florida is Deloitte Consulting LLP with 1,480 petitions at an average offered wage of $128,285, followed by Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Citibank, NA, University of Florida. Taken together, the 11,612 employers active in the state form a concrete picture of which industries and company sizes rely on H-1B sponsorship inside Florida. Because the data comes directly from DOL LCA disclosures (public record), each figure is auditable down to the individual petition, a meaningful contrast with anecdotal labor-market reporting.

Volume vs. pay, do they agree? By petition volume, Florida ranks #10 of 55 states. By average offered wage, it ranks #30 of 55. That's a 20-place gap, Florida sponsors a large volume of H-1B workers without paying among the highest average wages, consistent with a labor market weighted toward IT-services and staffing-firm sponsorship rather than a small number of high-paying specialist roles.