H-1B demand profile: Healthcare Social Workers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 21-1022, employers filed 7 Labor Condition Applications for Healthcare Social Workers positions across 3 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 100% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Healthcare Social Workers among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Healthcare Social Workers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $79,560 at the floor to $101,379 at the ceiling, with an average of $90,902. 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 Healthcare Social Workers. The top sponsor is Stanford Health Care with 5 petitions at an average offered wage of $91,075, followed by Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford, The Charlotte Mecklenburg Hospital Authority d/b/a Atrium Health. Geographically, CA leads with 6 filings (avg $92,792), followed by NC. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Healthcare Social Workers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.