County intelligence

Howard County

Maryland (MD) · FIPS 24027 · 2,499 employers · 11,812 filings with wage data

Employers in Howard, MD submitted 12,914 certified H-1B applications requesting 21,571 workers across 2,461 companies. The median offered wage is $84,504/yr. The largest filers are Cognizant Technology Solutions U.S. Corporation, Cisco Systems, Inc. and Oracle America, Inc.. The displacement model assigns 25.6K worker-equivalent exposures to these filings. Separately, 80 layoffs appear in matched WARN notices.

Source import recorded Sep 2, 2026

What the local records contain / DOL & WARN

What XH1B calculates / Local wage comparisons

How to read the wage comparison

County averages mix occupations and years. Offered wages and the latest available national BLS occupation medians are averaged separately over available records, so their populations can differ. This is a screening comparison, not a comparison of matched filings or a finding about an individual wage.

Definitions & methodology ↗

Filings & wages

Annual filing records and a county-level wage comparison.

Filing history

Annual DOL filing records. Workers requested are not confirmed hires.

05001K2K2K3Kpeak 1K (2015)2007: 94 filings (103 workers)2008: 975 filings (1,308 workers)2009: 404 filings (565 workers)2010: 138 filings (448 workers)2011: 650 filings (995 workers)2012: 638 filings (1,469 workers)2013: 671 filings (1,450 workers)2014: 178 filings (966 workers)2015: 1,135 filings (2,803 workers)2016: 909 filings (1,736 workers)2017: 882 filings (1,489 workers)2018: 988 filings (1,249 workers)2019: 1,009 filings (1,335 workers)2020: 823 filings (1,041 workers)2021: 878 filings (983 workers)2022: 884 filings (1,192 workers)2023: 847 filings (1,124 workers)2024: 683 filings (943 workers)2025: 574 filings (783 workers)2026: 109 filings (265 workers)200720082009201020112012201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024202520262007: 103 workers2008: 1,308 workers2009: 565 workers2010: 448 workers2011: 995 workers2012: 1,469 workers2013: 1,450 workers2014: 966 workers2015: 2,803 workers2016: 1,736 workers2017: 1,489 workers2018: 1,249 workers2019: 1,335 workers2020: 1,041 workers2021: 983 workers2022: 1,192 workers2023: 1,124 workers2024: 943 workers2025: 783 workers2026: 265 workersfilings
filingsworkers (scaled)
Inspect filing outcomes All available years and DOL statuses

Certified, denied, and withdrawn counts describe application decisions. They do not measure visas issued or workers hired.

Offered-wage distribution

Percentiles across 11,564 positive year-unit LCA offers, all outcomes and visa classes.

$48,877$71,073$93,269$115,464$137,660$85,000annual wage

Application outcomes all available years

  • Certified12,665 · 95.8%
  • Denied203 · 1.5%
  • Withdrawn352 · 2.7%
How this distribution is built Year-unit offers, all outcomes and visa classes

The distribution covers positive offers with wage unit Year, across all outcomes and visa classes. It differs from the certified H-1B summary cohort. It does not adjust for occupation, employer, or worksite mix.

Downstream impact

Conditional effects of this county's modeled displacement exposure.

Americans displaced (modeled estimate)

25,603

The math
Base (1 per certified worker)
+21,571
Wage-gap multiplier

8495 of 12914 filings below BLS median

+3,952
WARN layoffs (government-reported)

9 notices filed

+80
Total25,603

Σ workers×(1+wage_gap) + Σ WARN layoffs. The 1.0 base rate per certified H-1B worker request is a site model assumption. Wage gap multiplier = (BLS median − offered wage) / BLS median, applied only to filings offering less than the BLS median. Related research provides context, not validation of these exact coefficients. This is a modeled estimate, not a count of actual displacements. WARN layoff counts are government-reported.

Exposure method v1.2 · This is a modeled worker-equivalent count.

Modeled consequence estimates

Conditional impacts associated with modeled displacement

Explore Howard County’s scenarioEarnings · children · health · adjust the worker count

These are conditional population estimates scaled from Howard County's current modeled displacement count. They are not observed outcomes, a prediction about any person, or evidence that this entity caused displacement.

Exposure method v1.2 (stored with this aggregate) · benchmarked to the latest BLS survey. Consequence parameters v1.54; build v1.54+engine0.4.1+d84162591c94d06c8148c4834ae705ff3f9a015c29955d95d26749834cd136ed+national-reference1

Excess deaths over 20 years

Illustrative reference calculation · population applicability is not established

736.31

Range: 288.35 to 1,282.6

20-year reference scenario: high-seniority male displacement effect. This is not an expected count for an unknown population.

Source-profile mortality point (deaths)
736.312410653
No sustained excess from year 7 (deaths)
525.461280016

Declared structural comparison; not a confidence interval or a model probability.

Baseline population: US prime-age men (45-54).

Child lifetime earnings lost

Illustrative reference calculation · population applicability is not established

$12.3B

Range: $3.2B to $20.7B

Canadian father–son firm-closure effect, applied to a US male lifetime-earnings baseline in 2024 dollars. The reference result uses 2 children per worker.

Baseline population: US male median lifetime earnings.

The mortality effect comes from a high-seniority male study cohort. Treat the count as a reference scenario unless the population matches. A mixed population needs a reviewed transport rule.

The range is the engine's parameter-support envelope: it varies declared parameters only and adds none of the exposure input's uncertainty.

The math, limits, and citations

Illustrative reference calculation scaled by the supplied worker-equivalent exposure. Two children per worker; 20-year mortality follow-up. This does not establish that an entity caused these outcomes.

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Child lifetime earnings lost: {"status":"illustrative_reference_calculation","eligible_for_public_headline":false,"target_population":null,"decision":null,"transport_assumptions":["Canadian father-son firm-closure estimate transported to the target families","US male synthetic career earnings convert a relative adult earnings effect to dollars","lifetime dollars are undiscounted; this is not an annual loss"],"reason":"Target cohort applicability and transport have not been established for this outcome; display as an illustrative reference calculation."}

Projection eligibility: {"child":{"status":"direct_estimate","eligible_for_validated_direct_contrast":true,"reason":"direct displacement-to-child adult earnings estimate; transport still requires an applicability decision"},"grandchild":{"status":"structural_projection","eligible_for_validated_direct_contrast":false,"reason":"combines a direct child estimate with an intergenerational persistence assumption; not an identified displacement intervention effect"},"greatgrandchild":{"status":"source_withdrawn","eligible_for_validated_direct_contrast":false,"reason":"source withdrawn for grandchild_earnings->greatgrandchild_earnings: The source measures earnings for three generations and education for four. It does not estimate .55 causal gap transmission to a fourth earnings generation. Retaining a projection would require an explicit uncalibrated assumption, not a source-identified default."}}

Exposure source: {"source":"one-worker normalized reference input","method":"scale by the stored warehouse worker-equivalent exposure at read time"}

Exact values: excess deaths over 20 years 736.312410653 (range 288.349347375 to 1,282.60243299); child lifetime earnings lost $12,261,168,807.13 (range $3,184,719,170.68 to $20,700,674,609.43);

The displayed range is a parameter-support envelope, not a confidence interval.

Place reference: national reference.

Not included: exposure estimation error; baseline estimation error; unmodeled pathways.

Blocked model paths: local_service_jobs_lost: requires a documented net local loss of tradable jobs; worker displacement alone is not this exposure.

  • Excess deaths over 20 years: sullivan2009 (earnings_shock->mortality_peak; canonical) Study population: US high-seniority displaced men born 1930-1959.
  • Excess deaths over 20 years: sullivan2009 (earnings_shock->mortality_offset_1; canonical) Study population: US high-seniority displaced men born 1930-1959.
  • Excess deaths over 20 years: sullivan2009 (earnings_shock->mortality_offsets_2_3; canonical) Study population: US high-seniority displaced men born 1930-1959.
  • Excess deaths over 20 years: sullivan2009 (earnings_shock->mortality_offsets_4_5; canonical) Study population: US high-seniority displaced men born 1930-1959.
  • Excess deaths over 20 years: sullivan2009 (earnings_shock->mortality_sustained; canonical) Study population: US high-seniority displaced men born 1930-1959.
  • Child lifetime earnings lost: oreopoulos2008 (displacement->child_earnings; EXACT) Study population: Canada 39k father-son pairs firm closures.
Scenario assumptions, sensitivity and source records

Outcome statistics use the displayed exposure. Baselines, coefficients, annual family schedules and component records retain their source normalization.

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        "target_population": null,
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Parameter set v1.54 · model v1.54+engine0.4.1+d84162591c94d06c8148c4834ae705ff3f9a015c29955d95d26749834cd136ed+national-reference1

Local connections

County context, public notices, and linked public records.

Community well-being

Food insecurity, SNAP receipt, mental distress, smoking, and overdose mortality in this area. CDC models these from survey data: treat them as local estimates, not headcounts. Bars compare each estimate against population-weighted averages of all reporting areas for the same data year.

Food insecurity

2023

9.4%: 5.8 points below U.S.

Adults receiving SNAP

2023

6.2%: 5.6 points below U.S.

Frequent mental distress

2023

12.4%: 3.6 points below U.S.

Adult smoking

2023

7.4%: 4.7 points below U.S.

Drug overdose deaths

2021

20.8: 11.4 below U.S.

Source: CDC PLACES 2025 release (BRFSS survey year 2023) and NCHS drug poisoning mortality. PLACES values are model-based small-area estimates, not survey counts. Benchmarks are population-weighted averages across all reporting areas.

Medical workforce context

AHRF supply DOL filingsRecordAHRF county supply data and H-1B medical LCAs. Comparisons use the median US county.
MDs per 100k residents696↑ 8.3× median
Active MDs (non-federal)2,340
Nurse practitioners per 100k183↑ 91% above
County population336,001
Primary care HPSA designationsnot a designated shortage area0
H-1B medical workers certifiedhealthcare SOCs (29-* + 31-2*)12154% of BLS
Full medical breakdown

Howard County in context

DOL filings CountyRecordH-1B intensity by county across Maryland. This county is highlighted. Click any county to drill in.
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Read the county map County-level H-1B intensity

The map gives geographic context. A county average does not classify every filing, employer, or worker within it.

Employers & occupations

The sponsors and job categories recorded in this county.

Employers (2,499)

DOL filings EmployerRecordRanked by applications in this county.
EmployerFilings
1

FEI.COM, Inc. ⚠ Dep

410
2

Quality Software Services, Inc. ⚠ Dep

289
3

Blossom Solutions Inc. ⚠ Dep

273
4

Sparksoft Corporation ⚠ Dep

273
5

Xpedite Technologies Inc. ⚠ Dep

251
6

Merkle Inc.

248
7

Chags Health Information Technology, LLC ⚠ Dep

200
8

Cisco Systems, Inc.

186

Job categories (158)

  • Software Developers$25.7M · 43.1%
  • Statisticians$7.2M · 12.0%
  • Computer and Information Systems Managers$5.2M · 8.7%
  • Civil Engineers$4.9M · 8.3%
  • Electronics Engineers, Except Computer$4.9M · 8.2%
  • Management Analysts$4.3M · 7.2%
  • Accountants and Auditors$4M · 6.7%
  • Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists$3.5M · 5.8%
DOL wage offers BLS occupationsSignalOccupation averages need not describe each filing.
Job categoryH-1B vs BLS
15-1252 Software DevelopersH-1B $123.8K vs BLS $136K-9%

1,632 workers · 924 filings · $25.7M wage theft

15-2041 StatisticiansH-1B $87.1K vs BLS $105.7K-18%

256 workers · 204 filings · $7.2M wage theft

144 workers · 113 filings · $5.2M wage theft

17-2051 Civil EngineersH-1B $77.4K vs BLS $100.8K-23%

192 workers · 192 filings · $4.9M wage theft

116 workers · 33 filings · $4.9M wage theft

13-1111 Management AnalystsH-1B $81.1K vs BLS $101.9K-20%

170 workers · 115 filings · $4.3M wage theft

13-2011 Accountants and AuditorsH-1B $70.1K vs BLS $83.7K-16%

223 workers · 194 filings · $4.0M wage theft

138 workers · 134 filings · $3.5M wage theft

Labor condition applications (13,535)

DOL filings BLS occupationsRecordAll recorded outcomes and visa classes. Use the wage badge to inspect an offer against available benchmarks.
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A negative % sits below the BLS market median; a positive % sits above.

What the filing rows show One application per row

Each row links to the disclosure record. A wage comparison is a screening calculation, not a finding of a wage violation.

WARN notices (9)Public layoff notices: open to inspect
WARN EmployerReviewOpen a notice to inspect its stated effective date and worker count. Coverage varies by state; some states file no public WARN data.

Republic National Distributing Company, LLC

Notice date: 2026-04-23 · 8201 Stayton Drive Jessup, MD 20794

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Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative Association, Inc. d/b/a Maola

Notice date: 2026-03-26 · 8321 Leishear Road Laurel, Maryland 20723

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Grassroots Crisis Intervention Center

Notice date: 2026-08-06 · 8990 Old Annapolis Road, Ste. A, Columbia, MD 21045

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BAE Systems, Inc.

Notice date: 2026-01-02 · 306 Sentinel Drive, Suite 500, Annapolis Junction, MD 20701

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Provider Partners Management Services, LLC

Notice date: 2026-10-07 · 8820 Columbia 100 Parkway, Suite 430 Columbia, MD 21045

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Panera, LLC

Notice date: 2026-03-17 · 7801 Dorsey Run Jessup, MD 20794

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Records to inspect

Open the linked public records behind this county's filings.

Immigration law firms (726)

DOL filings Law firmRecordNames are shown as recorded.

Federal contracts (8,528)

Federal awards EmployerRecordAmounts are individual award actions, not total contract values.
ROHDE & SCHWARZ USA, INC.
Department of Transportation · Nov 26, 2025
$173.5M
ROHDE & SCHWARZ USA, INC.
Department of Transportation · Mar 19, 2026
$167.6M
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC, THE
National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Nov 25, 2025
$150M
ROHDE & SCHWARZ USA, INC.
Department of Transportation · Jun 9, 2026
$123.3M
FREQUENTIS USA, INC
Department of Transportation · Sep 1, 2026
$121.7M
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC, THE
National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Mar 25, 2026
$100.5M
ROHDE & SCHWARZ USA, INC.
Department of Transportation · May 6, 2026
$99M
$60.3M

Evidence & sources

Scope, methods, and source coverage for this county record.

Public source records and site analysis. We do not attest to accuracy. Read the full disclaimer.

Dataset guides and site methods

  1. [1] Dataset documentation · DOL OFLC. LCA public disclosure record layout (FY2026 Q3). Pages 1–4: application, DOL outcome and dates, requested positions, employer, representatives, worksites and pay unitsThis layout covers determinations issued October 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026. It documents employer-provided application fields and DOL decisions, not USCIS decisions, payroll verification, legal bills or worker-linked moves. Older layouts can differ.Checked 2026-10-17.
  2. [2] Dataset documentation · BLS. OEWS technical notes (May 2025). Scope of the survey; occupational coding; concepts and estimation methodologyDocuments occupation and geographic wage estimates, not an individual worker’s pay. Use the estimate year and geography stated by the site; older releases can differ.Checked 2026-10-17.
  3. [3] XH1B method or registry · XH1B. WARN Notices (mass layoffs): source registry; Calculation and Matching Methods; Reading Public Records and Derived Indicators. Source registry entry: warn; Filing units, annualization, weighting, wage comparisons, and inference limits; Reading records: units, source coverage, wage gaps, entity links, and inference limitsXH1B dataset description: One row per source_notice_id. The definition of a mass layoff and the layoff threshold vary by state. The threshold is typically 50 or more employees.; These are the site's review methods, not validated predictions of wrongdoing. Inspect underlying records and alternative explanations.
  4. [4] Dataset documentation · USAspending / U.S. Treasury. Federal Spending Guide: contract transactions. Pages 3, 5, 9 and 17: transactions, amount fields and recipient identifiersContract downloads contain prime award transactions. XH1B’s use of recipient identifiers for employer links is its own processing step.Checked 2026-10-18.
  5. [5] XH1B method or registry · XH1B. Displacement Model and Assumptions. Eligibility, requested-position weighting, scopes, WARN matching, and counting limitsModel outputs are estimates. A matched layoff notice does not prove that an H-1B worker replaced a laid-off worker.
  6. [6] XH1B method or registry · XH1B. Downstream Research and Methods. Study populations, parameter bounds, baselines, and expected outcomes; linked model card
  7. [7] Dataset documentation · HRSA. Area Health Resources Files: 2024–2025 technical documentation. County User Guide: physicians, Table 10 NPI professions, population estimates and missing values; Technical Documentation: variable years and sourcesClinician categories and variable years differ. County APRN counts use NPI taxonomy; physician active and federal status matter. Release year is not the year of every measure.Checked 2026-10-18.
Questions about the data & methods

How many H-1B filings are in Howard County, MD?

12,914 H-1B labor condition applications requesting 21,571 workers have been filed in Howard County, MD, per Department of Labor disclosure records.

How many employers have H-1B filings in Howard County, MD?

2,461 distinct employers have filed H-1B labor condition applications in Howard County, MD. The employer list on this page is ranked by filings and wage impact.

What worker-equivalent exposure does the displacement model estimate for Howard County, MD?

The model estimates 25,603 worker-equivalents of displacement exposure in Howard County, MD: one per requested worker on a certified H-1B filing, raised where the offered wage sits below the occupation's BLS median, plus government-reported WARN layoffs matched to filings. This is a modeled exposure estimate, not a count of documented job losses; the formula is on the About page.

What is the median H-1B wage in Howard County, MD?

$84,504 per year is the median wage offered on H-1B labor condition applications filed for work in Howard County, MD. The wage-distribution chart on this page shows the spread around that median.

Who files the most H-1B filings in Howard County, MD?

FEI.COM, Inc. leads with 410 filings, about 3% of all Howard County, MD filings. Its dossier page carries the full filing, wage, and layoff history.

What share of Howard County, MD H-1B filings does DOL deny?

DOL disclosure records show 12,665 certified, 203 denied, 352 withdrawn of 13,220 labor condition applications with reported outcomes in Howard County, MD. The denial share is 2% across the reported outcomes.

How many WARN layoff notices has Howard County, MD recorded?

9 Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notices. Where a layoff employer then filed H-1B labor condition applications in the same window, the pair is recorded as a displacement event with an evidence score.

When did H-1B use peak in Howard County, MD?

Filings peaked in 2015 at 1,135 labor condition applications. The filings-by-year chart on this page shows the full trend since records began.

Which immigration law firms file the most H-1B filings in Howard County, MD?

726 distinct law firms and agents have filed H-1B applications for employers in Howard County, MD. The law-firm table on this page ranks them by filings and by the wage gap their filings carry.

Do Howard County, MD H-1B employers hold federal contracts?

8,528 federal contract actions in Howard County, MD name employers that also file H-1B labor condition applications. The contracts table links each award to the employer dossier. A shared employer name does not show how award funds were spent.

Where does the Howard County, MD H-1B data come from?

Every figure on this page traces to a public government record: DOL OFLC disclosure files (LCA filings, wages, outcomes), BLS OES wage data (occupation medians), state WARN notices, and federal contract awards. The archive is read-only evidence; nothing is crowdsourced or anonymous.