H-1B demand profile: Training and Development Specialists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 13-1151-00, employers filed 1,315 Labor Condition Applications for Training and Development Specialists positions across 627 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 96.3% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Training and Development Specialists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Training and Development Specialists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $25,085 at the floor to $793,320 at the ceiling, with an average of $77,431. 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 Training and Development Specialists. The top sponsor is Open Avenues Foundation with 72 petitions at an average offered wage of $63,134, followed by Artesia Soft Inc, DREAM Venture Labs Inc, Microsoft Corporation. Geographically, CA leads with 218 filings (avg $75,584), followed by NY, TX, NJ. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Training and Development Specialists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.