H-1B demand profile: Search Marketing Strategists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 13-1161-01, employers filed 944 Labor Condition Applications for Search Marketing Strategists positions across 515 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 95.7% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Search Marketing Strategists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Search Marketing Strategists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $37,128 at the floor to $300,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $102,628. 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 Search Marketing Strategists. The top sponsor is Google LLC with 115 petitions at an average offered wage of $161,442, followed by Microsoft Corporation, GroupM Worldwide LLC, Salesforce, Inc. Geographically, NY leads with 271 filings (avg $117,466), followed by CA, TX, NJ. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Search Marketing Strategists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.