H-1B demand profile: Interpreters and Translators. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 27-3091-00, employers filed 336 Labor Condition Applications for Interpreters and Translators positions across 185 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 93.8% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Interpreters and Translators among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Interpreters and Translators. Offered wages on LCAs range from $18,138 at the floor to $256,114 at the ceiling, with an average of $70,499. 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 Interpreters and Translators. The top sponsor is Apple Inc with 9 petitions at an average offered wage of $115,878, followed by Interpreting Services International, LLC, Yerezhepova Law, PC, Meng Law Group PC. Geographically, CA leads with 137 filings (avg $84,478), followed by NY, WA, MA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Interpreters and Translators actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.