H-1B demand profile: Public Relations Specialists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 27-3031, employers filed 26 Labor Condition Applications for Public Relations Specialists positions across 17 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 96.2% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Public Relations Specialists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Public Relations Specialists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $40,000 at the floor to $183,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $75,714. 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 Public Relations Specialists. The top sponsor is University of Michigan with 4 petitions at an average offered wage of $78,404, followed by Co-Active Training Institute, Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina (, Globalization Partners US, Inc. Geographically, DC leads with 6 filings (avg $73,650), followed by MI, TX, NY. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Public Relations Specialists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.