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Norc
OSHA: no recordInjuries: 1 yrLabor: no recordImmigration: 18 LCAContracts: not listed
Across the sources on this site, Norc (Chicago, Illinois) appears in 18 labor condition applications, 4 PERM applications and one year of injury summaries.
On its 2025 Form 300A summary the employer reported 1,676 employees and 179 recordable cases, a total recordable case rate of 15.3 per 100 full-time workers, higher than the pooled rate for its industry (1.2; median establishment 0.0).
It filed 18 labor condition applications with OFLC across fiscal years 2025–2026, covering 18 worker positions. The median offered wage is $108,212 a year against a median prevailing wage of $96,023, above the median across all employers for its most common occupation ($80,000). The most common prevailing wage level is Level III (44% of filings).
OFLC records 4 PERM labor certification applications from the employer with a median offered wage of $99,033; the employer reported 804 employees on payroll.
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.
No OSHA inspection of this employer in Illinois appears in the enforcement data since 2016. Inspections are recorded at the establishment; sites in other states are listed under those states.
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 541 (quartiles 0.0–1.6); "overall" rates pool all hours and cases.
By year
| Year | Establishments | Employees | Hours | Deaths | Days away | Restricted/transfer | Other | TRC rate | DART rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 | 1,676 | 2,343,160 | 1 | 25 | 0 | 153 | 15.3 | 2.1 |
Figures sum every establishment filed under this employer name in Illinois. 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 Illinois 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 11%Level II 17%Level III 44%Level IV 28%Not stated 0%
| Measure | This employer | SOC 19-3041 | Illinois | US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median offered wage | $108,212 | $80,000 | $123,656 | $122,221 |
| Offered wage, 25th–75th percentile | $100,000–$120,000 | $70,000–$110,758 | — | — |
| Share at Level I or II | 28% | 63% | 47% | 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, Sociologists, across all employers.
Top job titles
| Job title | Filings | Median wage |
|---|---|---|
| Research Scientist | 6 | $106,101 |
| Statistician III | 3 | $130,562 |
| Principal Research Scientist | 1 | — |
| Data Scientist II | 1 | — |
| Senior Research Associate I | 1 | — |
| Senior Research Associate II | 1 | — |
| Senior Systems Engineer | 1 | — |
| Manager I - Client Services | 1 | — |
| Statistician II | 1 | — |
| Sr Research Associate I | 1 | — |
| Statistician | 1 | — |
Occupations (SOC)
| Occupation | Filings | SOC median wage |
|---|---|---|
| Sociologists | 8 | $80,000 |
| Statisticians | 6 | $127,075 |
| Natural Sciences Managers | 1 | $125,170 |
| Software Developers | 1 | $138,494 |
| Operations Research Analysts | 1 | $118,000 |
| Social Science Research Assistants | 1 | $65,000 |
Worksite states
Illinois 9 · District of Columbia 6 · Virginia 1 · Michigan 1 · Washington 1
Visa classes: H-1B 18. Applications are attributed to the employer's state on the form (Illinois); worksites may be elsewhere.
PERM labor certification (green card sponsorship)
Top PERM job titles
| Job title | Applications |
|---|---|
| Statistician III | 1 |
| Senior Research Associate II | 1 |
| Statistician II | 1 |
| Project Manager – Operations Research | 1 |
PERM occupations
| Occupation | Applications |
|---|---|
| Statisticians | 2 |
| Sociologists | 1 |
| Operations Research Analysts | 1 |
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.
Not among the top 3,903 federal contract recipients loaded from USAspending for the latest twelve months. Smaller awards can be searched on USAspending.gov.
Questions and answers
Has OSHA inspected Norc?
No OSHA inspection of Norc in Illinois appears in the enforcement data since 2016.
Were there penalties, and are they final?
No OSHA record, so no penalties to report.
Did the Labor Department find back wages due from Norc?
No concluded Wage and Hour Division compliance action names Norc in Illinois in the data since fiscal year 2005.
Does Norc sponsor H-1B workers, and at what wages?
It filed 18 labor condition applications in fiscal years 2025–2026; 18 were certified. The median offered wage is $108,212 a year; the most common job title is Research Scientist.
Does Norc sponsor green cards (PERM)?
OFLC records 4 PERM applications in fiscal years 2024–2026, 3 of them certified.
Does Norc hold federal contracts?
It is not among the top federal contract recipients loaded from USAspending; smaller awards are not covered on this site.
Have there been union elections at Norc?
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.