H-1B demand profile: Craft Artists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 27-1012-00, employers filed 13 Labor Condition Applications for Craft Artists positions across 6 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 61.5% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Craft Artists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Craft Artists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $29,120 at the floor to $190,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $61,596. 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 Craft Artists. The top sponsor is Eddie's Quilting Bee Inc with 4 petitions at an average offered wage of $70,528, followed by Meena Lash LLC, Hello Pottery Pasadena LLC, Holy Jerusalem American Apostolic Church. Geographically, CA leads with 6 filings (avg $68,858), followed by FL, NV, NY. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Craft Artists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.