H-1B activity in Ohio. U.S. Department of Labor disclosure data shows 39,418 Labor Condition Applications filed on behalf of H-1B workers in Ohio, spanning 5,643 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 Ohio 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 Ohio H-1B petitions is $108,114. 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 12,203 petitions at an average of $112,583, followed by Computer Systems Engineers/Architects and Computer Systems Analysts.

Who does the sponsoring. The top H-1B sponsor in Ohio is Tata Consultancy Services Limited with 1,621 petitions at an average offered wage of $83,169, followed by Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp, Jpmorgan Chase & Co, The Ohio State University. Taken together, the 5,643 employers active in the state form a concrete picture of which industries and company sizes rely on H-1B sponsorship inside Ohio. 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, Ohio ranks #14 of 55 states. By average offered wage, it ranks #35 of 55. That's a 21-place gap, Ohio 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.