H-1B demand profile: Editors. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 27-3041-00, employers filed 456 Labor Condition Applications for Editors positions across 242 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 96.1% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Editors among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Editors. Offered wages on LCAs range from $31,200 at the floor to $587,304 at the ceiling, with an average of $96,770. 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 Editors. The top sponsor is Bloomberg LP with 16 petitions at an average offered wage of $94,086, followed by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, The New York Times Company, American Physical Society. Geographically, NY leads with 203 filings (avg $103,081), followed by CA, DC, IL. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Editors actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.