H-1B demand profile: Database Administrators. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 15-1242, employers filed 125 Labor Condition Applications for Database Administrators positions across 57 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 99.2% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Database Administrators among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Database Administrators. Offered wages on LCAs range from $49,554 at the floor to $189,385 at the ceiling, with an average of $102,191. 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 Database Administrators. The top sponsor is OSS, Inc with 22 petitions at an average offered wage of $69,042, followed by Accenture LLP, Ameriteam Services, LLC, Infylogy Corp. Geographically, MD leads with 24 filings (avg $77,628), followed by TX, CA, MI. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Database Administrators actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.