H-1B demand profile: Optometrists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 29-1041-00, employers filed 295 Labor Condition Applications for Optometrists positions across 151 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 92.9% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Optometrists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Optometrists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $40,664 at the floor to $450,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $138,321. 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 Optometrists. The top sponsor is National Vision, Inc with 32 petitions at an average offered wage of $108,044, followed by Visionworks of America, Inc, Family Healthcare Network, Warby Parker Inc. Geographically, NY leads with 59 filings (avg $152,282), followed by CA, MA, FL. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Optometrists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.