H-1B demand profile: Historians. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-3093-00, employers filed 66 Labor Condition Applications for Historians positions across 40 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Historians among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Historians. Offered wages on LCAs range from $38,155 at the floor to $475,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $78,345. 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 Historians. The top sponsor is Yale University with 5 petitions at an average offered wage of $67,128, followed by Research Foundation of Cuny, The Leland Stanford, Jr University, Boston College. Geographically, NY leads with 17 filings (avg $78,841), followed by CA, MA, CT. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Historians actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.