H-1B demand profile: Orthodontists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 29-1023-00, employers filed 119 Labor Condition Applications for Orthodontists positions across 77 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 94.1% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Orthodontists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Orthodontists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $72,352 at the floor to $624,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $284,852. 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 Orthodontists. The top sponsor is JDC HEALTHCARE PLLC with 5 petitions at an average offered wage of $130,141, followed by Dr Dana E Fender, DMD, PC, Great River Orthodontic Specialists, SC, Orthodontic Specialists of Oklahoma, PLLC. Geographically, TX leads with 39 filings (avg $254,836), followed by VA, IL, MI. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Orthodontists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.