H-1B demand profile: Food Service Managers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 11-9051-00, employers filed 125 Labor Condition Applications for Food Service Managers positions across 82 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 86.4% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Food Service 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 Food Service Managers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $36,587 at the floor to $180,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $72,827. 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 Food Service Managers. The top sponsor is SHOTO DC LLC with 7 petitions at an average offered wage of $91,114, followed by Bisonte Industrial USA LLC, Desi District LLC, Menya Ramen & Bar Inc. Geographically, TX leads with 20 filings (avg $56,823), followed by CA, NY, DC. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Food Service Managers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.