H-1B activity in Massachusetts. U.S. Department of Labor disclosure data shows 69,575 Labor Condition Applications filed on behalf of H-1B workers in Massachusetts, spanning 9,179 distinct employers. DOL certified these petitions at a 97.7% rate, meaning the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review before USCIS took over final adjudication. That volume gives Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts H-1B petitions is $122,007. 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 14,755 petitions at an average of $139,091, followed by Data Scientists and Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers.

Who does the sponsoring. The top H-1B sponsor in Massachusetts is Amazon.com Services LLC with 1,722 petitions at an average offered wage of $139,488, followed by Ernst & Young US LLP, The MathWorks, Inc, Harvard University. Taken together, the 9,179 employers active in the state form a concrete picture of which industries and company sizes rely on H-1B sponsorship inside Massachusetts. 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, Massachusetts ranks #9 of 55 states. By average offered wage, it ranks #6 of 55. The two ranks are close, volume and pay move together in Massachusetts more than in most states.