H-1B demand profile: Database Administrators. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 15-1242-00, employers filed 20,887 Labor Condition Applications for Database Administrators positions across 4,698 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97.9% 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 $36,754 at the floor to $905,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $114,654. 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 Ernst & Young US LLP with 4,031 petitions at an average offered wage of $138,703, followed by Amazon.com Services LLC, Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Amazon Web Services, Inc. Geographically, TX leads with 4,190 filings (avg $107,584), followed by CA, NJ, NY. 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.