H-1B demand profile: Writers and Authors. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 27-3043-00, employers filed 220 Labor Condition Applications for Writers and Authors positions across 131 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 95.9% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Writers and Authors among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Writers and Authors. Offered wages on LCAs range from $42,000 at the floor to $280,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $106,818. 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 Writers and Authors. The top sponsor is META PLATFORMS, INC with 14 petitions at an average offered wage of $191,467, followed by Anomaly Partners LLC, Supergoop LLC, Apple Inc. Geographically, NY leads with 103 filings (avg $111,091), followed by CA, IL, TX. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Writers and Authors actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.