H-1B activity in West Virginia. U.S. Department of Labor disclosure data shows 1,586 Labor Condition Applications filed on behalf of H-1B workers in West Virginia, spanning 273 distinct employers. DOL certified these petitions at a 94.3% rate, meaning the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review before USCIS took over final adjudication. That volume gives West Virginia 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 West Virginia H-1B petitions is $190,702. 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 Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary, which alone accounts for 187 petitions at an average of $149,110, followed by Physicians, All Other and General Internal Medicine Physicians.

Who does the sponsoring. The top H-1B sponsor in West Virginia is West Virginia University with 404 petitions at an average offered wage of $173,044, followed by West Virginia University Medical Corporation, Marshall University, University Physicians & Surgeons, Inc. Taken together, the 273 employers active in the state form a concrete picture of which industries and company sizes rely on H-1B sponsorship inside West Virginia. 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, West Virginia ranks #46 of 55 states. By average offered wage, it ranks #1 of 55. That's a 45-place gap, West Virginia 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.