H-1B demand profile: Landscape Architects. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-1012-00, employers filed 1,195 Labor Condition Applications for Landscape Architects positions across 397 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 95.4% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Landscape Architects among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Landscape Architects. Offered wages on LCAs range from $30,181 at the floor to $234,208 at the ceiling, with an average of $74,466. 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 Landscape Architects. The top sponsor is SWA GROUP with 71 petitions at an average offered wage of $73,904, followed by EDSA, Inc, RIOS, Inc, Sasaki Associates. Geographically, CA leads with 336 filings (avg $81,492), followed by NY, TX, MA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Landscape Architects actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.