H-1B demand profile: Music Directors and Composers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 27-2041-00, employers filed 157 Labor Condition Applications for Music Directors and Composers positions across 108 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 91.7% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Music Directors and Composers among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Music Directors and Composers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $27,040 at the floor to $156,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $65,261. 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 Music Directors and Composers. The top sponsor is East Side Studios LLC with 4 petitions at an average offered wage of $60,500, followed by Stl Tones (US), Inc, Amplified Cactus LLC, Bard College. Geographically, CA leads with 48 filings (avg $67,192), followed by NY, TX, MN. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Music Directors and Composers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.