H-1B demand profile: Sociologists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-3041-00, employers filed 350 Labor Condition Applications for Sociologists positions across 146 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 95.1% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Sociologists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Sociologists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $48,922 at the floor to $185,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $85,567. 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 Sociologists. The top sponsor is NORC with 16 petitions at an average offered wage of $101,062, followed by The Leland Stanford, Jr University, The Trustees of Princeton University, The RAND Corporation. Geographically, CA leads with 52 filings (avg $101,656), followed by NY, DC, VA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Sociologists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.