H-1B demand profile: Foresters. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-1032-00, employers filed 53 Labor Condition Applications for Foresters positions across 27 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 98.1% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Foresters among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Foresters. Offered wages on LCAs range from $49,999 at the floor to $690,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $86,453. 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 Foresters. The top sponsor is The City of New York, Department of Parks and Recreation with 7 petitions at an average offered wage of $58,847, followed by University of Maine, University of Georgia; OGE, Mendocino Redwood Company, LLC. Geographically, GA leads with 7 filings (avg $59,696), followed by NY, ME, CA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Foresters actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.