H-1B demand profile: Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 27-3043-05, employers filed 7 Labor Condition Applications for Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers positions across 5 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 100% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Poets, Lyricists and Creative 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 Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $55,000 at the floor to $126,922 at the ceiling, with an average of $71,088. 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 Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers. The top sponsor is Yale University with 3 petitions at an average offered wage of $65,240, followed by Firaxis Games, Inc, Inmyshow USA Inc, The Late Show Inc. Geographically, CT leads with 3 filings (avg $65,240), followed by CA, MD, NY. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.