H-1B demand profile: Urban and Regional Planners. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-3051, employers filed 12 Labor Condition Applications for Urban and Regional Planners positions across 8 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 100% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Urban and Regional Planners among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Urban and Regional Planners. Offered wages on LCAs range from $60,299 at the floor to $108,326 at the ceiling, with an average of $82,535. 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 Urban and Regional Planners. The top sponsor is City of Mt Pleasant with 2 petitions at an average offered wage of $82,500, followed by Crawford, Murphy & Tilly, Inc, Fisher Associates, PE, LS, LA, DPC, Southwest Business Improvement District. Geographically, CA leads with 2 filings (avg $99,626), followed by DC, MI, MO. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Urban and Regional Planners actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.