H-1B demand profile: Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 21-1012-00, employers filed 1,059 Labor Condition Applications for Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors positions across 471 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 87.7% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors. Offered wages on LCAs range from $32,739 at the floor to $175,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $57,867. 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 Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors. The top sponsor is The Parachute Project Inc with 20 petitions at an average offered wage of $104,000, followed by Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, InGenius LLC. Geographically, CA leads with 121 filings (avg $67,705), followed by NY, TX, PA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.