H-1B demand profile: Lodging Managers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 11-9081-00, employers filed 195 Labor Condition Applications for Lodging Managers positions across 120 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 91.8% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Lodging 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 Lodging Managers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $34,008 at the floor to $325,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $84,418. 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 Lodging Managers. The top sponsor is Highgate Hotels LP with 12 petitions at an average offered wage of $89,219, followed by Crestview Management LLC, Eliot Hotel Inc, Arizona Grand Resort Group LLC. Geographically, NY leads with 34 filings (avg $91,004), followed by FL, CA, DC. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Lodging Managers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.