H-1B demand profile: Technical Writers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 27-3042-00, employers filed 725 Labor Condition Applications for Technical Writers positions across 375 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Technical Writers among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Technical Writers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $46,000 at the floor to $300,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $105,149. 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 Technical Writers. The top sponsor is The MathWorks, Inc with 29 petitions at an average offered wage of $101,745, followed by Google LLC, Amazon Development Center US, Inc, L&t Technology Services Limited. Geographically, CA leads with 176 filings (avg $127,364), followed by NY, MA, TX. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Technical Writers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.