H-1B demand profile: Art Directors. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 27-1011-00, employers filed 768 Labor Condition Applications for Art Directors positions across 400 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97.4% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Art Directors among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Art Directors. Offered wages on LCAs range from $52,000 at the floor to $454,585 at the ceiling, with an average of $157,445. 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 Art Directors. The top sponsor is Apple Inc with 45 petitions at an average offered wage of $204,590, followed by Meta Platforms, Inc, Intuit Inc, Anomaly Partners LLC. Geographically, NY leads with 327 filings (avg $155,989), followed by CA, IL, FL. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Art Directors actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.