H-1B activity in Mississippi. U.S. Department of Labor disclosure data shows 2,662 Labor Condition Applications filed on behalf of H-1B workers in Mississippi, spanning 541 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 Mississippi 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 Mississippi H-1B petitions is $115,686. 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 283 petitions at an average of $96,835, followed by Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education and Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary.

Who does the sponsoring. The top H-1B sponsor in Mississippi is University of Mississippi Medical Center with 278 petitions at an average offered wage of $202,712, followed by Mississippi State University, Jackson Public School District, University of Mississippi. Taken together, the 541 employers active in the state form a concrete picture of which industries and company sizes rely on H-1B sponsorship inside Mississippi. 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, Mississippi ranks #42 of 55 states. By average offered wage, it ranks #20 of 55. That's a 22-place gap, Mississippi 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.