H-1B demand profile: News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 27-3023-00, employers filed 402 Labor Condition Applications for News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists positions across 174 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 95.3% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $33,280 at the floor to $250,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $77,073. 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 News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists. The top sponsor is Bloomberg LP with 33 petitions at an average offered wage of $75,091, followed by Mail Media, Inc, Sinovision Incorporated, Radio Free Asia. Geographically, NY leads with 198 filings (avg $82,432), followed by CA, DC, MA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.