H-1B demand profile: Fashion Designers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 27-1022-00, employers filed 390 Labor Condition Applications for Fashion Designers positions across 214 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 92.1% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Fashion Designers among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Fashion Designers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $37,981 at the floor to $250,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $80,189. 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 Fashion Designers. The top sponsor is The Gap, Inc with 14 petitions at an average offered wage of $129,132, followed by J Crew Group, LLC, Envogue International LLC, Gap, Inc. Geographically, NY leads with 215 filings (avg $82,233), followed by CA, NJ, FL. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Fashion Designers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.