H-1B demand profile: Video Game Designers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 15-1255-01, employers filed 326 Labor Condition Applications for Video Game Designers positions across 107 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 Video Game Designers among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Video Game Designers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $44,886 at the floor to $300,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $114,938. 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 Video Game Designers. The top sponsor is Epic Games, Inc with 44 petitions at an average offered wage of $164,593, followed by Blizzard Entertainment, Inc, Epic Games, Activision Publishing Inc. Geographically, CA leads with 176 filings (avg $119,163), followed by WA, NC, TX. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Video Game Designers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.