H-1B demand profile: Accountants and Auditors. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 13-2011-00, employers filed 31,834 Labor Condition Applications for Accountants and Auditors positions across 6,252 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 94.5% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Accountants and Auditors among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Accountants and Auditors. Offered wages on LCAs range from $30,888 at the floor to $921,139 at the ceiling, with an average of $100,065. 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 Accountants and Auditors. The top sponsor is Ernst & Young US LLP with 9,820 petitions at an average offered wage of $113,900, followed by Deloitte & Touche LLP, Deloitte Tax LLP, Amazon.com Services LLC. Geographically, CA leads with 7,585 filings (avg $108,325), followed by NY, TX, IL. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Accountants and Auditors actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.