H-1B demand profile: Mental Health Counselors. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 21-1014-00, employers filed 1,578 Labor Condition Applications for Mental Health Counselors positions across 587 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 87.6% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Mental Health Counselors among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Mental Health Counselors. Offered wages on LCAs range from $30,056 at the floor to $840,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $67,332. 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 Mental Health Counselors. The top sponsor is GANDARA Mental HEALTH CENTER Inc with 149 petitions at an average offered wage of $54,590, followed by SEA MAR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS, Purdue University, Holocene Acquisition II LLC. Geographically, MA leads with 355 filings (avg $62,178), followed by NY, WA, CA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Mental Health Counselors actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.