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Cepheid
OSHA: 3 insp.Injuries: 3 yrLabor: no recordImmigration: 123 LCAContracts: $74M
Cepheid is an employer in Sunnyvale, California in Computer and electronic product manufacturing. Federal records hold 3 OSHA inspections, 123 labor condition applications, 105 PERM applications, a federal contract recipient profile and 3 years of injury summaries.
OSHA opened 3 inspections at Cepheid sites in California since 2016, issuing 2 citations. Current penalties total $1,160, $387 per inspection, below the national figure of $3,754. 1 inspection has at least one contested citation.
On its 2025 Form 300A summary the employer reported 3,826 employees and 51 recordable cases, a total recordable case rate of 1.4 per 100 full-time workers, higher than the pooled rate for its industry (0.9; median establishment 0.0).
It filed 123 labor condition applications with OFLC across fiscal years 2025–2026, covering 123 worker positions. The median offered wage is $135,000 a year against a median prevailing wage of $118,394, above the median across all employers for its most common occupation ($108,000). The most common prevailing wage level is Level IV (28% of filings).
OFLC records 105 PERM labor certification applications from the employer with a median offered wage of $139,050; the employer reported 3,800 employees on payroll.
USAspending lists Cepheid as a child recipient of $74M in federal contract obligations over the latest twelve months.
OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Citations may be contested; the status shown reflects the record at the data date. Enforcement data through 14 Sep 2026.
Inspections by year
Compared with industry, state and nation
| Measure | This employer | NAICS 334 | California | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citations per inspection | 0.7 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 1.9 |
| Current penalty per inspection | $387 | $3,553 | $3,729 | $3,754 |
| Share of inspections with a contested citation | 33% | — | 27% | 8% |
| Share of inspections with final orders on every citation | 33% | — | 59% | 56% |
Inspections with no citations count as "issued" with zero citations. Industry and state figures cover every inspection in the enforcement data since 2016, including employers without a page.
Citations by standard
| Standard | Subject | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| 3205(C) | — | 1 |
| 3650(T)(12) | — | 1 |
Standard numbers as the record labels them (29 CFR section; 5(a)(1) is the General Duty Clause). State-plan agencies such as Cal/OSHA cite their own codes, which appear here as recorded. Counted from the first twelve citations of each inspection.
Inspections
| Opened | Type | Scope | Citations | Current penalty | Status | Cited standards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 May 2026 | Complaint · Safety | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 18 Dec 2023 | Complaint · Health | Partial | 0 | — | Case closed | |
| 7 Jan 2022 | Accident · Safety | Partial | 2 | $1,160 | Contested, final order | 3205(C), 3650(T)(12) |
Status is per inspection: "Contested" when any citation has a contest date and "Final order" when every citation has a final order date; "Issued" otherwise. Violation types: S serious, W willful, R repeat. Each date links to the inspection detail on osha.gov.
Injuries OSHA Injury Tracking Application, Form 300A
Establishments submit their own Form 300A summaries; OSHA publishes the data as submitted and does not verify it. Rates are per 100 full-time workers (cases × 200,000 ÷ hours worked). Calendar years 2023–2025.
Injury rate vs industry
Total recordable case rate for 2025. The industry median is the median rate across establishments with at least 20,000 hours in NAICS 334 (quartiles 0.0–1.5); "overall" rates pool all hours and cases.
By year
| Year | Establishments | Employees | Hours | Deaths | Days away | Restricted/transfer | Other | TRC rate | DART rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 1,217 | 2,628,360 | 0 | 9 | 14 | 3 | 2.0 | 1.8 |
| 2024 | 4 | 3,527 | 9,115,860 | 0 | 16 | 29 | 6 | 1.1 | 1.0 |
| 2025 | 3 | 3,826 | 7,421,760 | 0 | 19 | 23 | 9 | 1.4 | 1.1 |
Figures sum every establishment filed under this employer name in California. Rates are blank where fewer than 2,000 hours were reported.
Labor Wage and Hour Division
The Wage and Hour Division publishes concluded compliance actions since fiscal year 2005; amounts are back wages the employer agreed to pay and civil money penalties assessed, as recorded at case conclusion. Data through 15 Jun 2026.
No concluded Wage and Hour Division compliance action names this employer in California in the data since fiscal year 2005.
Immigration Office of Foreign Labor Certification
Employer-specific case information was provided to OFLC by employers who submitted foreign labor certification applications. These are not employer responses to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' survey. Wage levels I–IV are as the employer stated on the application. LCA data through 30 Jun 2026; PERM through 30 Jun 2026.
H-1B labor condition applications
Applications by fiscal year
Prevailing wage levels
Level I 4%Level II 27%Level III 15%Level IV 28%Not stated 26%
| Measure | This employer | SOC 17-2112 | California | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median offered wage | $135,000 | $108,000 | $156,853 | $122,221 |
| Offered wage, 25th–75th percentile | $119,274–$153,827 | $90,870–$133,300 | — | — |
| Share at Level I or II | 31% | 57% | 42% | 56% |
Wages annualised from the rate and unit on the application (hourly × 2,080). Medians use up to 400 sampled applications per employer. The occupation column is the employer's most common SOC code, Validation Engineers, across all employers.
Top job titles
| Job title | Filings | Median wage |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Process Engineer | 6 | $131,345 |
| Process Engineer | 3 | $115,569 |
| Senior Scientist I | 3 | $130,050 |
| Senior Software Engineer | 3 | $158,516 |
| Supervisor Quality Assurance | 2 | — |
| Senior Systems Quality Compliance Engineer | 2 | — |
| Senior Supplier Quality Engineer | 2 | — |
| Software Quality Engineer | 2 | — |
| Process Engineer II | 2 | — |
| Sr. Automation Development Engineer | 2 | — |
| Engineering Supervisor (Planning and Partroom) | 2 | — |
| Human Resources Business Partner | 2 | — |
Occupations (SOC)
| Occupation | Filings | SOC median wage |
|---|---|---|
| Validation Engineers | 46 | $108,000 |
| Software Developers | 15 | $138,494 |
| Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers | 9 | $102,123 |
| Mechanical Engineers | 7 | $107,146 |
| Regulatory Affairs Specialists | 6 | $89,107 |
| Computer Occupations, All Other | 4 | $114,808 |
| Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers | 4 | $104,728 |
| Electrical Engineers | 3 | $121,459 |
Worksite states
California 102 · Texas 4 · Virginia 3 · Washington 3 · Arizona 2 · Pennsylvania 2 · Georgia 2 · Maryland 1
Visa classes: H-1B 122, H-1B1 Chile 1. Applications are attributed to the employer's state on the form (California); worksites may be elsewhere.
PERM labor certification (green card sponsorship)
Top PERM job titles
| Job title | Applications |
|---|---|
| Senior Process Engineer | 10 |
| Process Engineer | 6 |
| Process Engineer II | 3 |
| Business Solutions Architect | 2 |
| Sr. Consumables Design Engineer | 2 |
| Quality Systems Specialist III | 2 |
| Data Scientist | 2 |
| Sr. Software Quality Engineer | 2 |
| Senior Equipment Validation Engineer | 2 |
| Senior Software Engineer | 2 |
Contracts USAspending.gov
USAspending recipient totals are federal contract obligations reported by awarding agencies for the latest twelve months; a recipient profile is a company-level record, not a per-state one. Retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
USAspending lists Cepheid among the 3,903 largest federal contract recipients. The full award list is on the recipient profile.
The USAspending name is matched to this employer by normalised company name across all states; the total covers the whole company.
Questions and answers
Has OSHA inspected Cepheid?
Yes. OSHA records 3 inspections at Cepheid sites in California since 2016, most recently opened 12 May 2026.
Were there penalties, and are they final?
2 citations with current penalties totalling $1,160. 1 inspection has a final order on every citation, 1 has a contested citation and 2 are recorded as issued. Citations may be contested; the status shown reflects the record at the data date.
Did the Labor Department find back wages due from Cepheid?
No concluded Wage and Hour Division compliance action names Cepheid in California in the data since fiscal year 2005.
Does Cepheid sponsor H-1B workers, and at what wages?
It filed 123 labor condition applications in fiscal years 2025–2026; 122 were certified. The median offered wage is $135,000 a year; the most common job title is Senior Process Engineer.
Does Cepheid sponsor green cards (PERM)?
OFLC records 105 PERM applications in fiscal years 2024–2026, 105 of them certified.
Does Cepheid hold federal contracts?
USAspending lists it among the largest contract recipients, with $74M obligated over the latest twelve months (recipient level: child).
Have there been union elections at Cepheid?
NLRB election results are not loaded on this site at present, so this page cannot say either way. The NLRB publishes recent election results and a case search on nlrb.gov.
Is this the same company as the one I am looking for?
Records are matched by normalised name and state. Subsidiaries, franchisees and other states' entities have their own records. See the methodology for how matching works.
Provenance
OSHA inspections and violations: US Department of Labor enforcement data, data.dol.gov, through 14 Sep 2026, inspections opened since 2016. Injury summaries: OSHA Injury Tracking Application Form 300A data, calendar years 2023, 2024, 2025. Wage and Hour compliance actions: data.dol.gov, concluded cases through 15 Jun 2026. LCA and PERM: OFLC disclosure files, fiscal years 2025–2026 through 30 Jun 2026. Federal contracts: USAspending recipient API, latest twelve months at 1 Oct 2026. NLRB election results are not loaded in this build. US government works, public domain; USAspending data is released under CC0. Page built 1 Oct 2026; errors in processing are corrected at the next build (corrections). Disputes about a record go to the agency that holds it.