H-1B demand profile: Marriage and Family Therapists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 21-1013-00, employers filed 191 Labor Condition Applications for Marriage and Family Therapists positions across 97 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 91.6% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Marriage and Family Therapists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Marriage and Family Therapists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $35,630 at the floor to $312,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $71,171. 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 Marriage and Family Therapists. The top sponsor is SPECIAL SERVICE FOR GROUPS, INC with 12 petitions at an average offered wage of $71,152, followed by Foothill Family Service, Northside Center for Relationship Counseling PC, Chinatown Service Center. Geographically, CA leads with 112 filings (avg $75,934), followed by IL, WA, NY. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Marriage and Family Therapists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.