H-1B demand profile: Librarians and Media Collections Specialists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 25-4022-00, employers filed 198 Labor Condition Applications for Librarians and Media Collections Specialists positions across 99 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 96.5% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Librarians and Media Collections Specialists 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 and Media Collections Specialists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $33,363 at the floor to $162,388 at the ceiling, with an average of $68,946. 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 and Media Collections Specialists. The top sponsor is Nash County Public Schools with 7 petitions at an average offered wage of $37,392, followed by University of the Virgin Islands, Duke University, Indiana University. Geographically, CA leads with 20 filings (avg $95,484), followed by NC, NY, PA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Librarians and Media Collections Specialists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.