H-1B demand profile: Healthcare Social Workers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 21-1022-00, employers filed 314 Labor Condition Applications for Healthcare Social Workers positions across 163 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 98.1% 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 $31,554 at the floor to $355,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $69,434. 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 Sunset Park Health Council, Inc with 16 petitions at an average offered wage of $79,148, followed by Maimonides Medical Center, Mount Sinai Hospital, University Settlement Society of New York. Geographically, NY leads with 120 filings (avg $78,054), followed by CA, WA, MA. 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.