H-1B demand profile: Special Effects Artists and Animators. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 27-1014-00, employers filed 1,085 Labor Condition Applications for Special Effects Artists and Animators positions across 348 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 88.1% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Special Effects Artists and Animators among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Special Effects Artists and Animators. Offered wages on LCAs range from $41,600 at the floor to $840,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $122,803. 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 Special Effects Artists and Animators. The top sponsor is Microsoft Corporation with 89 petitions at an average offered wage of $167,992, followed by Apple Inc, BYTEDANCE INC, Electronic Arts, Inc. Geographically, CA leads with 607 filings (avg $133,339), followed by WA, NY, GA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Special Effects Artists and Animators actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.