H-1B demand profile: Architectural Drafters. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-3011-01, employers filed 25 Labor Condition Applications for Architectural Drafters positions across 22 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 96% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Architectural 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 Drafters. Offered wages on LCAs range from $37,024 at the floor to $80,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $57,856. 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 Drafters. The top sponsor is Architectural Engineering Design Group, Inc with 2 petitions at an average offered wage of $65,500, followed by GGLO Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Planning & Urban Design, LLC, SmithGroup, Inc, subsidiary of SmithGroup Co, Inc, Buro Happold Consulting Engineers, Inc. Geographically, CA leads with 5 filings (avg $70,722), followed by RI, NY, AZ. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Architectural Drafters actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.