H-1B demand profile: Software Developers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 15-1252-00, employers filed 594,191 Labor Condition Applications for Software Developers positions across 29,594 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 95.2% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Software Developers among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Software Developers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $18,000 at the floor to $1,000,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $136,375. 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 Software Developers. The top sponsor is Google LLC with 21,007 petitions at an average offered wage of $179,047, followed by Amazon.com Services LLC, Microsoft Corporation, Meta Platforms, Inc. Geographically, CA leads with 115,552 filings (avg $174,747), followed by TX, WA, NJ. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Software Developers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.