H-1B demand profile: Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 13-1161-00, employers filed 16,369 Labor Condition Applications for Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists positions across 7,288 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 90.5% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Market Research Analysts and Marketing 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 Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $22,942 at the floor to $991,164 at the ceiling, with an average of $97,574. 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 Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists. The top sponsor is AMAZONCOM SERVICES LLC with 671 petitions at an average offered wage of $120,299, followed by Microsoft Corporation, Google LLC, ByteDance Inc. Geographically, CA leads with 4,320 filings (avg $105,418), followed by NY, TX, WA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.