H-1B demand profile: Purchasing Managers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 11-3061-00, employers filed 999 Labor Condition Applications for Purchasing Managers positions across 448 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Purchasing Managers among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Purchasing Managers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $57,637 at the floor to $400,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $145,045. These figures reflect what employers commit to pay sponsored workers, not market averages, each offer must meet or exceed the DOL prevailing wage (Level I through IV) for the worksite, so the distribution tracks wage-level geography, years of experience, and regional cost of labor more than it does any single employer’s pay philosophy.

Where and who sponsors Purchasing Managers. The top sponsor is Amazon Data Services, Inc with 106 petitions at an average offered wage of $138,443, followed by Amazon.com Services LLC, Rivian Automotive, LLC, Google LLC. Geographically, CA leads with 261 filings (avg $162,181), followed by TX, WA, NY. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Purchasing Managers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.