H-1B activity in Hawaii. U.S. Department of Labor disclosure data shows 1,199 Labor Condition Applications filed on behalf of H-1B workers in Hawaii, spanning 363 distinct employers. DOL certified these petitions at a 93.5% rate, meaning the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review before USCIS took over final adjudication. That volume gives Hawaii 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 Hawaii H-1B petitions is $109,610. 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 90 petitions at an average of $123,382, followed by Civil Engineers and Astronomers.

Who does the sponsoring. The top H-1B sponsor in Hawaii is University of Hawaii with 225 petitions at an average offered wage of $103,659, followed by Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii, Nan, Inc, Queen's University Medical Group. Taken together, the 363 employers active in the state form a concrete picture of which industries and company sizes rely on H-1B sponsorship inside Hawaii. 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, Hawaii ranks #48 of 55 states. By average offered wage, it ranks #32 of 55. That's a 16-place gap, Hawaii pays comparatively well per H-1B worker despite a modest share of national petition volume, consistent with a smaller number of high-wage specialist sponsors rather than high-volume staffing firms.