H-1B demand profile: Teaching Assistants, Special Education. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 25-9043-00, employers filed 19 Labor Condition Applications for Teaching Assistants, Special Education positions across 11 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 89.5% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Teaching Assistants, Special Education among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Teaching Assistants, Special Education. Offered wages on LCAs range from $29,120 at the floor to $52,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $41,379. 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 Teaching Assistants, Special Education. The top sponsor is International Institute for the Brain, Ltd with 5 petitions at an average offered wage of $42,510, followed by Princeton Child Development Institute, Aspire Carolinas Foundation Inc, Specialized Education of Colorado, Inc. Geographically, NY leads with 5 filings (avg $42,510), followed by NJ, CA, CO. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Teaching Assistants, Special Education actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.