H-1B demand profile: Architectural and Civil Drafters. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-3011-00, employers filed 1,051 Labor Condition Applications for Architectural and Civil Drafters positions across 567 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 93.4% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Architectural and Civil Drafters among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Architectural and Civil Drafters. Offered wages on LCAs range from $31,034 at the floor to $634,236 at the ceiling, with an average of $70,350. 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 Architectural and Civil Drafters. The top sponsor is Payette Associates, Inc with 30 petitions at an average offered wage of $78,133, followed by STUDIOS Architecture, Atelier Ten USA, LLC, MBH Architects Inc. Geographically, CA leads with 256 filings (avg $73,463), followed by NY, MA, GA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Architectural and Civil Drafters actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.