H-1B demand profile: Accountants. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 13-2011-01, employers filed 142 Labor Condition Applications for Accountants positions across 104 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 98.6% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Accountants 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. Offered wages on LCAs range from $43,160 at the floor to $220,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $86,938. 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. The top sponsor is Credit Suisse Services (USA) LLC with 6 petitions at an average offered wage of $112,667, followed by Jpmorgan Chase & Co, Grant Thornton LLP, Moss Adams LLP. Geographically, CA leads with 32 filings (avg $99,887), followed by NY, TX, NC. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Accountants actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.