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H-1B filed wages in Lake Charles, LA

151 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 Lake Charles

DOL LCA · FY2025
$92,250
n = 27filings with a wage

FY2025 median across the 27 filings that reported a wage for a worksite in Lake Charles, LA — of 151 certified filings in total. DOL LCA · FY2025

Fiscal yearFiled wageWage sample (n)
FY2026 (through Q3)$80,000
median of 28
28
FY2025$92,250
median of 27
27
FY2024$71,701
median of 24
24
FY2023$56,950
median of 23
23
FY2022$63,066
median of 23
23
FY2021$58,161
median of 26
26

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 Lake Charles, LA fall inside the federal statistical area LAKE CHARLES, LA. 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 Lake Charles itself, so the numbers above are city figures, not area figures.

Employers filing the most roles in Lake Charles

top 24 by volume
EmployerFiled wageWage sample (n)
Calcasieu Parish School Board$53,061
median of 29
29
McNeese State University$80,000
median of 24
24
National Hospitalist Services, PC
9 filings — too few for a median
9
Hospitalist Medicine Physicians of Texas, PLLC
6 filings — too few for a median
6
CHRISTUS Health
5 filings — too few for a median
5
The Pathology Laboratory, Inc.
Fewer than 10 certified filings, so this employer does not have its own page.

5 filings — too few for a median
5
Ashan Enterprises LLC
Fewer than 10 certified filings, so this employer does not have its own page.

4 filings — too few for a median
4
PVR Technologies, Inc.
3 filings — too few for a median
3
Acadian Ambulance Service, Inc.
3 filings — too few for a median
3
Gophr App Inc
Fewer than 10 certified filings, so this employer does not have its own page.

2 filings — too few for a median
2
Lake Charles Memorial Hospital
Fewer than 10 certified filings, so this employer does not have its own page.

2 filings — too few for a median
2
Dexperts Inc.
2 filings — too few for a median
2
Sparkling Diamond, LLC
Fewer than 10 certified filings, so this employer does not have its own page.

2 filings — too few for a median
2
Southwest Louisiana Hospital Association
2 filings — too few for a median
2
Takeo Tech LLC
2 filings — too few for a median
2
Johnson Brothers Corporation, a Southland Company
2 filings — too few for a median
2
CHRISTUS Health Southwestern LA
Fewer than 10 certified filings, so this employer does not have its own page.

2 filings — too few for a median
2
Han IT Staffing, Inc.$97,240
1 filing
1
Southwest Louisiana Charter Academy Foundation, Inc.
Fewer than 10 certified filings, so this employer does not have its own page.
$46,699
1 filing
1
Twitter, Inc.$139,000
1 filing
1
Compass Group USA, Inc.$67,787
1 filing
1
Nuanced Media LLC
Fewer than 10 certified filings, so this employer does not have its own page.
$43,992
1 filing
1
Compunnel Software Group, Inc$87,000
1 filing
1
Ochsner Clinic Foundation$43,000
1 filing
1

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. 49 employers in total filed for a worksite in Lake Charles; the 24 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

Layoff notices in LA

State WARN notices
We have no way to know about layoffs in Lake Charles.
Layoff notices (WARN) are published state by state, and Louisiana is not one of the states we have loaded.

Nothing on this page should be read as evidence that employers here are or are not cutting jobs — we simply do not have this state's notices. Check the Louisiana labor department's WARN page directly.

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.