We already published the full report for entire USA in a previous blog.
This is focused on US West Region, that is comprised of
Division 8: Mountain (Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming)
Division 9: Pacific (Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington)
With data from 2001 to date, Symmetrics platform has upwards of 20% of data for high-skilled labor force in the United States (for medium and low-skilled too, but that is another post). For comparison, that is equal to or greater than what ADP (which is a highly profitable HR tech firm and one of the oldest) has per what they claim on job descriptions.
Let’s jump into the 2022 Q2 analysis that is fresh off the oven (The report is very large, hence we will discuss few pages of the report). DOWNLOAD FULL REPORT
Snapshot
A high level overview of industries, job categories, employers, law firms, locations etc. is as below
Industries
# of Jobs: As expected, Custom Computer Programming and Computer Systems Design industry hires the most, but Office of Physicians is not far behind — so overall it is the engineering and medical fields that hire the most.
Top Wages: Office of Physicians paid the most between $237k–$271k per annum
Jobs
As expected Software jobs top the ranks, and other engineering and statistical jobs follow. The average salary of software engineer is 123k and median is 120k
Location
California as expected hires the most in the West Region, with Washington, Arizona and Colorado following.
In terms of cities, SFO, Seattle and others are expected to be in the top
Employers
The top employers in terms of number of jobs goes to the obvious ones aka. high tech firms like Google, Amazon, Microsoft
Law Firms
For most high skilled immigration jobs, a capable law firm is required to make the immigration case and secure the visa. Fragomen et al., Berry Appleman et al. and others are expected to be in the top ranks. You can see their performance in terms of number of certified vs. non-certified as well for further consultation
Benchmarking Firms
Benchmarking salary and providing the same during audit is required for many companies as they adhere to various compliances like anti-discrimination, diversity, affirmative action and many more policies to ensure competitiveness etc. in the industry. Many employers hire benchmarking firms to sometimes refer to their database OR re-survey based on changing conditions. The top ones are Radford, Watson Towers and so on
Conclusion
That is a fast forward review of 2022 Q2 — West Region high-skilled jobs data.
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Note: Please refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_of_the_United_States for region mapping to states
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