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New Jersey (NJ)

Northeast region · H-1B sponsorship, wages, layoffs, and enforcement for FY24.

Tracked H-1B approvals
11,595
Curated employer subsetModeled
Avg offered wage
$94,500
Tracked employersModeled
ICE arrests
12,000
FY24Modeled
Layoffs (WARN)
371,502
2,305 noticesReported
Layoff notices · State WARN portal (via warn-scraper)

371,502 employees across 2,305 WARN notices in New Jersey

Real notices filed with the state and republished from its open-data portal. Latest layoff effective date: Dec 31, 2026. This state publishes the layoff effective date rather than the filing date, so dates here can fall in the future.

Reported
  • eff. Dec 31, 2026Enablx, Inc.Rockaway Twp.187
  • eff. Dec 11, 2026Merck & CoRahway54
  • eff. Dec 7, 2026OptumBasking Ridge57
  • eff. Nov 25, 2026UBSWeehawken41
  • eff. Nov 19, 2026Cellares CorporationBridgewater68
  • eff. Nov 17, 2026Grocery Delivery E-Services USA, Inc DBA Hello FreshSwedesboro374
  • eff. Nov 9, 2026Educational Testing ServicePrinceton62
  • eff. Nov 4, 2026UBSWeehawken58
Personal relevance

What this means for you

New Jersey workers

  • Tracked employers sponsor about 11,595 H-1B workers across 2 firms with worksites in New Jersey. Modeled
  • The average offered wage among those sponsors is $94,500. Modeled
  • New Jersey employers have filed 2,305 WARN notices covering 371,502 employees — a direct read on local labor stress, filed with the state and linked to its portal. Reported

New Jersey employers

  • The largest tracked H-1B sponsors with New Jersey worksites include Cognizant, Tata. Modeled
  • Sponsorship volume alone does not indicate that any U.S. worker was displaced — see methodology. Reported

This is data context only — not legal or immigration advice. Figures are labelled reported, projected, or estimated; for individual situations consult a qualified professional.

Top H-1B employers in state

By approvals attributable to in-state worksites

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H-1B approvals attributable to worksites in New Jersey. 2 rows · Cognizant to Tata · H-1B approvals.

H-1B approvals attributable to worksites in New Jersey
NameH-1B approvals
Cognizant6,321
Tata5,274
USCIS + DOL OFLCUpdated Mar 4, 2025

Top sponsored occupations

Among tracked employers

  1. 1Systems Analyst
  2. 2Software Developer
  3. 3Management Consultant
  4. 4Data Scientist

Employer detail

2 tracked employers

WARN notices by year

Employees covered by notices filed each calendar year

  • 2026127 notices15,979
  • 202588 notices12,982
  • 202498 notices14,450
  • 2023103 notices11,431
  • 202233 notices3,851
  • 202160 notices10,781
  • 2020226 notices74,329
  • 201979 notices10,269

New Jersey H-1B & immigration: common questions

Which employers sponsor H-1B visas in New Jersey?

Tracked H-1B sponsors with worksites in New Jersey include Cognizant Technology Solutions, Tata Consultancy Services. About 11,595 approvals are attributable to tracked employers in the state — a curated subset, not a complete state total.

What is the average H-1B salary in New Jersey?

The average offered wage among tracked New Jersey H-1B sponsors is $94,500, from Department of Labor LCA disclosures.

How many H-1B workers are sponsored in New Jersey?

Tracked employers account for about 11,595 H-1B approvals attributable to New Jersey worksites in FY24.

Methodology & sources
Reported vs modeled on this page. WARN notices are reported records: each one was filed with a state agency and links back to that agency’s portal. The H-1B, wage, and ICE figures are modeled — neither USCIS nor ICE publishes these breakdowns by state, so we apportion national totals using our own weights and label every such figure. Modeled figures are illustrative of scale, not official state counts. Covers 5 states with a machine-readable WARN feed (CA, NJ, TX, VA, WA). This is not a national total — most states publish WARN notices only as HTML, Excel, or PDF. Enforcement and layoff figures come from separate public datasets and should not be combined to imply causation. Full methodology → Read the full methodology →