H-1B activity in Tennessee. U.S. Department of Labor disclosure data shows 21,187 Labor Condition Applications filed on behalf of H-1B workers in Tennessee, spanning 3,229 distinct employers. DOL certified these petitions at a 97.6% rate, meaning the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review before USCIS took over final adjudication. That volume gives Tennessee 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 Tennessee H-1B petitions is $105,832. 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 5,991 petitions at an average of $110,748, followed by Computer Systems Engineers/Architects and Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers.

Who does the sponsoring. The top H-1B sponsor in Tennessee is St Jude Children's Research Hospital with 1,126 petitions at an average offered wage of $85,927, followed by Ut-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Amazon.com Services LLC, Federal Express Corporation. Taken together, the 3,229 employers active in the state form a concrete picture of which industries and company sizes rely on H-1B sponsorship inside Tennessee. 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, Tennessee ranks #18 of 55 states. By average offered wage, it ranks #40 of 55. That's a 22-place gap, Tennessee 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.