H-1B demand profile: Graphic Designers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 27-1024, employers filed 39 Labor Condition Applications for Graphic Designers positions across 18 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 Graphic 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 Graphic Designers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $42,952 at the floor to $170,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $83,711. 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 Graphic Designers. The top sponsor is University of Michigan with 6 petitions at an average offered wage of $76,535, followed by Dallas Baptist University, Instrument LLC, 505 Go Inc. Geographically, CA leads with 12 filings (avg $107,944), followed by TX, NY, MI. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Graphic Designers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.