H-1B filed wages in Wake Forest, NC

236 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 Wake Forest

DOL LCA · FY2025

$113,573

n = 72filings with a wage

FY2025 median across the 72 filings that reported a wage for a worksite in Wake Forest, NC — of 236 certified filings in total. DOL LCA · FY2025

Fiscal year	Filed wage	Wage sample (n)
FY2026 (through Q3)	$114,573 median of 56	56
FY2025	$113,573 median of 72	72
FY2024	$109,632 median of 64	64
FY2023	$117,670 median of 26	26
FY2022	$98,925 median of 13	13
FY2021	5 filings — too few for a median	5

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 Wake Forest, NC fall inside the federal statistical area RALEIGH, NC. 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 Wake Forest itself, so the numbers above are city figures, not area figures.

Employers filing the most roles in Wake Forest

top 25 by volume

Employer	Filed wage	Wage sample (n)
Optum Services, Inc.	9 filings — too few for a median	9
Casa Esperanza Montessori Charter School Fewer than 10 certified filings, so this employer does not have its own page.	8 filings — too few for a median	8
Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp	7 filings — too few for a median	7
Sigma Group Inc	5 filings — too few for a median	5
Envision Science Academy Fewer than 10 certified filings, so this employer does not have its own page.	4 filings — too few for a median	4
Randstad Digital, LLC	4 filings — too few for a median	4
Gigzonwheels LLC Fewer than 10 certified filings, so this employer does not have its own page.	4 filings — too few for a median	4
Eclat Solutions LLC	3 filings — too few for a median	3
UST Global Inc	3 filings — too few for a median	3
Pi Labs Inc	3 filings — too few for a median	3
Randstad Technologies, LLC	2 filings — too few for a median	2
V-Soft Consulting Group, INC	2 filings — too few for a median	2
Confluent, Inc.	2 filings — too few for a median	2
Paychex North America Inc.	2 filings — too few for a median	2
Microsoft Corporation	2 filings — too few for a median	2
MindQ, Inc.	2 filings — too few for a median	2
D2Sol, Inc.	2 filings — too few for a median	2
Primitive Partners LLC	2 filings — too few for a median	2
Devbytes Inc	2 filings — too few for a median	2
Vbridgeit Inc	2 filings — too few for a median	2
Raleigh Animal Care PLLC Fewer than 10 certified filings, so this employer does not have its own page.	2 filings — too few for a median	2
Sumas Corporation	2 filings — too few for a median	2
Zenith LifeScience LLC	2 filings — too few for a median	2
Fortinet, Inc.	2 filings — too few for a median	2
Celoris Tech LLC	2 filings — too few for a median	2

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. 162 employers in total filed for a worksite in Wake Forest; 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

Layoff notices in NC

State WARN notices

We have no way to know about layoffs in Wake Forest.
Layoff notices (WARN) are published state by state, and North Carolina 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 North Carolina 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.