H-1B demand profile: Insurance Underwriters. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 13-2053-00, employers filed 141 Labor Condition Applications for Insurance Underwriters positions across 65 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97.2% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Insurance Underwriters among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Insurance Underwriters. Offered wages on LCAs range from $46,176 at the floor to $666,936 at the ceiling, with an average of $117,524. 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 Insurance Underwriters. The top sponsor is ACE American Insurance Company with 16 petitions at an average offered wage of $134,125, followed by Marsh USA LLC, National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pa, International Underwriting Agency Inc. Geographically, NY leads with 54 filings (avg $111,707), followed by CA, FL, TX. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Insurance Underwriters actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.