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H-1B filed wages in Carlsbad, CA

1,858 certified filings with a worksite in this city · FY2021–FY2026 (through Q3)

Reported wages are what employers filed with the Department of Labor — not actual take-home pay. Filings are counted by worksite, so a company headquartered elsewhere appears here if the job is here.

Median filed wage in Carlsbad

DOL LCA · FY2025
$127,962
n = 273filings with a wage

FY2025 median across the 273 filings that reported a wage for a worksite in Carlsbad, CA — of 1,858 certified filings in total. DOL LCA · FY2025

Fiscal yearFiled wageWage sample (n)
FY2026 (through Q3)$130,187
median of 197
197
FY2025$127,962
median of 273
273
FY2024$125,861
median of 269
269
FY2023$120,000
median of 288
288
FY2022$118,000
median of 399
399
FY2021$113,006
median of 429
429

How these wages are computed · All cities · All job titles

Source U.S. Department of Labor — OFLC LCA disclosure files (ETA-9035) · Coverage FY2021–FY2026 (through Q3) ·Updated 2026-08-28 · Basis worksite city as filed; median not average

How this city maps to a federal statistical area

scope

Filings from Carlsbad, CA fall inside the federal statistical area SAN DIEGO-CARLSBAD, CA. That area is larger than this city — it spans several cities and, where the name says so, more than one state. Everything on this page is computed from filings whose worksite city is Carlsbad itself, so the numbers above are city figures, not area figures.

Employers filing the most roles in Carlsbad

top 25 by volume
EmployerFiled wageWage sample (n)
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.$117,437
median of 222
222
Maxlinear, Inc.$127,616
median of 127
127
Viasat Inc.$131,000
median of 113
113
Rockstar San Diego, Inc.$107,281
median of 66
66
Cisco Systems, Inc.$126,880
median of 59
59
Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.$121,160
median of 37
37
Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp.$140,000
median of 36
36
Wal-Mart Associates, Inc.$163,082
median of 30
30
GenMark Diagnostics, Inc.$96,952
median of 30
30
Alphatec Spine Inc.$130,000
median of 29
29
Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$147,468
median of 28
28
Activision Publishing Inc$99,569
median of 28
28
Callaway Golf Company$146,013
median of 27
27
Tata Consultancy Services Limited$80,662
median of 27
27
Tech Pundits, Inc.$125,000
median of 26
26
Gemological Institute of America, Inc.$106,000
median of 25
25
Arlo Technologies, Inc.$144,130
median of 21
21
Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp$94,349
median of 20
20
Zodiac Pool Systems LLC$150,114
median of 19
19
CalAmp Wireless Networks Corporation$106,301
median of 16
16
Breg, Inc.$145,205
median of 16
16
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.$129,017
median of 16
16
Jam City, Inc.$104,872
median of 16
16
HM Electronics, Inc.$115,502
median of 15
15
Covidien LP$112,902
median of 15
15

Ranked by number of filings, not by pay and not by quality. This is not a “best employers” list. Employers with fewer than 10 filings here show the count only. 385 employers in total filed for a worksite in Carlsbad; the 25 above are those with the most filings. Those with at least 10 certified filings have their own page; the rest are counted here but do not.

Source U.S. Department of Labor — OFLC LCA disclosure files (ETA-9035) · Coverage FY2021–FY2026 (through Q3) ·Updated 2026-08-28 ·Basis worksite city as filed; counted across the whole coverage period, not one year

Other employers with a filing address in Carlsbad

2 with their own page

The table above ranks employers by how many roles they filed for a worksite here. This list is a different question: employers whose filing address is in Carlsbad, CA, that have their own page, and that are not already in that table. The two are not the same set — an employer can be headquartered here and file most of its roles elsewhere.

Callaway Golf Sales Company (45) · Sendx Medical, Inc. (15)

Source U.S. Department of Labor — OFLC LCA disclosure files (ETA-9035, employer address as filed) ·Coverage FY2021–FY2026 (through Q3) ·Basis employer filing address, not worksite; counts are that employer’s certified filings everywhere, not only in Carlsbad

Layoff notices in CA

State WARN notices

We have loaded California WARN notices (2018-11-15 to 2026-08-24, 13,739 notices). Layoff notices for a specific company appear on that company's page.

Which cities have a page

We build a page for a city once it has at least 50 certified filings — 2,578 cities qualify, and 2,298 of those also clear our content threshold and are listed in the city index. Below the filing threshold we do not publish a median, because a median from a small number of filings reads like a market rate and is not one. Those filings are still counted on their employer's page.