H-1B demand profile: Lawyers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 23-1011-00, employers filed 7,784 Labor Condition Applications for Lawyers positions across 2,067 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 87.3% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Lawyers among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Lawyers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $51,230 at the floor to $1,000,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $221,131. 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 Lawyers. The top sponsor is White & Case LLP with 296 petitions at an average offered wage of $281,629, followed by Latham & Watkins LLP, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP, Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Geographically, NY leads with 4,134 filings (avg $244,407), followed by CA, DC, TX. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Lawyers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.