H-1B demand profile: Credit Counselors. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 13-2071-00, employers filed 52 Labor Condition Applications for Credit Counselors positions across 26 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 96.2% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Credit Counselors among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Credit Counselors. Offered wages on LCAs range from $29,536 at the floor to $110,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $59,699. 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 Credit Counselors. The top sponsor is KEB Hana Bank New York Agency with 9 petitions at an average offered wage of $58,084, followed by CTBC Bank Co Ltd, China CITIC Bank International Limited, HSBC Bank USA, NA. Geographically, NY leads with 35 filings (avg $60,147), followed by CA, FL, NJ. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Credit Counselors actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.