H-1B demand profile: Online Merchants. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 13-1199-06, employers filed 48 Labor Condition Applications for Online Merchants positions across 33 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 89.6% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Online Merchants among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Online Merchants. Offered wages on LCAs range from $44,100 at the floor to $240,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $80,372. 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 Online Merchants. The top sponsor is Pattern, Inc with 4 petitions at an average offered wage of $109,264, followed by Belk, Inc, The Sports and Wellness Group LLC, Bally Americas Inc. Geographically, NY leads with 20 filings (avg $75,985), followed by CA, NJ, UT. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Online Merchants actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.