H-1B demand profile: Clergy. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 21-2011-00, employers filed 573 Labor Condition Applications for Clergy positions across 300 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 91.4% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Clergy among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Clergy. Offered wages on LCAs range from $31,200 at the floor to $660,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $57,657. 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 Clergy. The top sponsor is ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF LOS ANGELES with 21 petitions at an average offered wage of $54,036, followed by ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON-HOUSTON, Great Plains Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church, EPARCHY OF OUR LADY OF LEBANON OF LOS ANGELES. Geographically, CA leads with 83 filings (avg $60,816), followed by TX, OH, NY. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Clergy actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.