H-1B demand profile: Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 21-1023-00, employers filed 449 Labor Condition Applications for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers positions across 152 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 90.4% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Mental Health and Substance Abuse 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 Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $34,986 at the floor to $249,600 at the ceiling, with an average of $66,381. 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 and Substance Abuse Social Workers. The top sponsor is CCMS with 42 petitions at an average offered wage of $65,673, followed by OMNI Health Services, Inc, GANDARA Mental HEALTH CENTER Inc, The Child Center of NY. Geographically, NY leads with 159 filings (avg $72,691), followed by MA, PA, CA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Mental Health and Substance Abuse 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.