H-1B demand profile: Reporters and Correspondents. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 27-3022-00, employers filed 6 Labor Condition Applications for Reporters and Correspondents positions across 4 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 100% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Reporters and Correspondents among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Reporters and Correspondents. Offered wages on LCAs range from $30,000 at the floor to $68,182 at the ceiling, with an average of $49,264. 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 Reporters and Correspondents. The top sponsor is Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC with 2 petitions at an average offered wage of $37,000, followed by National Herald Inc, Brightwire, Inc, Mail Media, Inc. Geographically, NY leads with 4 filings (avg $55,396), followed by MA, TN. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Reporters and Correspondents actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.