H-1B demand profile: Public Relations Specialists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 27-3031-00, employers filed 2,093 Labor Condition Applications for Public Relations Specialists positions across 1,337 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 88.7% 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 $29,078 at the floor to $950,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $77,962. 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 Americas Society Inc with 12 petitions at an average offered wage of $84,567, followed by Amazon.com Services LLC, Arizona State University, LaunchSquad LLC. Geographically, NY leads with 738 filings (avg $87,617), followed by CA, NJ, TX. 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.