H-1B demand profile: Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 27-1013-00, employers filed 23 Labor Condition Applications for Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators positions across 17 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 87% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators. Offered wages on LCAs range from $19,200 at the floor to $100,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $68,990. 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 Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators. The top sponsor is Mindart Studio LLC with 3 petitions at an average offered wage of $81,067, followed by Forme Millinery Co Inc, Kayafas Artistry, UAP Production LLC. Geographically, NY leads with 7 filings (avg $80,674), followed by CA, KY, NE. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.