H-1B activity in North Carolina. U.S. Department of Labor disclosure data shows 70,988 Labor Condition Applications filed on behalf of H-1B workers in North Carolina, spanning 8,073 distinct employers. DOL certified these petitions at a 98% rate, meaning the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review before USCIS took over final adjudication. That volume gives North Carolina 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 North Carolina H-1B petitions is $114,802. 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 27,090 petitions at an average of $124,057, followed by Computer Systems Engineers/Architects and Computer Systems Analysts.

Who does the sponsoring. The top H-1B sponsor in North Carolina is Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp with 3,338 petitions at an average offered wage of $103,992, followed by Infosys Limited, Fidelity Technology Group, LLC, Tata Consultancy Services Limited. Taken together, the 8,073 employers active in the state form a concrete picture of which industries and company sizes rely on H-1B sponsorship inside North Carolina. 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, North Carolina ranks #8 of 55 states. By average offered wage, it ranks #22 of 55. That's a 14-place gap, North Carolina 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.