H-1B demand profile: Judicial Law Clerks. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 23-1012-00, employers filed 1,128 Labor Condition Applications for Judicial Law Clerks positions across 555 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 89.4% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Judicial Law Clerks among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Judicial Law Clerks. Offered wages on LCAs range from $31,990 at the floor to $636,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $83,161. 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 Judicial Law Clerks. The top sponsor is MILBANK LLP with 35 petitions at an average offered wage of $225,156, followed by Terkiana, PC, Ropes & Gray LLP, Yerezhepova Law, PC. Geographically, NY leads with 360 filings (avg $103,377), followed by CA, NJ, VA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Judicial Law Clerks actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.