H-1B activity in New York. U.S. Department of Labor disclosure data shows 152,853 Labor Condition Applications filed on behalf of H-1B workers in New York, spanning 20,839 distinct employers. DOL certified these petitions at a 97.4% rate, meaning the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review before USCIS took over final adjudication. That volume gives New York 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 New York H-1B petitions is $139,643. 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 27,386 petitions at an average of $153,584, followed by Financial and Investment Analysts and Financial Quantitative Analysts.

Who does the sponsoring. The top H-1B sponsor in New York is Ernst & Young US LLP with 5,814 petitions at an average offered wage of $151,300, followed by Google LLC, Amazoncom Services LLC, Meta Platforms, Inc. Taken together, the 20,839 employers active in the state form a concrete picture of which industries and company sizes rely on H-1B sponsorship inside New York. 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, New York ranks #3 of 55 states. By average offered wage, it ranks #5 of 55. The two ranks are close, volume and pay move together in New York more than in most states.