H-1B demand profile: Social Science Research Assistants. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-4061-00, employers filed 1,410 Labor Condition Applications for Social Science Research Assistants positions across 398 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97.4% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Social Science Research Assistants among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Social Science Research Assistants. Offered wages on LCAs range from $26,811 at the floor to $720,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $67,222. 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 Social Science Research Assistants. The top sponsor is The Sphere Institute with 168 petitions at an average offered wage of $83,545, followed by Johns Hopkins University, New York University, The University of Texas at Austin. Geographically, DC leads with 219 filings (avg $70,443), followed by CA, NY, TX. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Social Science Research Assistants actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.