H-1B demand profile: Librarians. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 25-4021-00, employers filed 7 Labor Condition Applications for Librarians positions across 6 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 100% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Librarians among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Librarians. Offered wages on LCAs range from $57,523 at the floor to $391,400 at the ceiling, with an average of $116,621. 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 Librarians. The top sponsor is Georgia Institute of Technology with 2 petitions at an average offered wage of $64,711, followed by Emory University, Harvard University, OCLC, Inc. Geographically, GA leads with 3 filings (avg $64,807), followed by MA, MI, NY. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Librarians actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.