H-1B demand profile: Occupational Therapists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 29-1122-00, employers filed 1,612 Labor Condition Applications for Occupational Therapists positions across 253 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97.7% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Occupational Therapists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Occupational Therapists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $42,827 at the floor to $216,320 at the ceiling, with an average of $78,979. 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 Occupational Therapists. The top sponsor is Grandison Management, Inc with 1,013 petitions at an average offered wage of $68,559, followed by The Stepping Stones Group LLC, Aegis Therapies, Inc, Tender Touch Rehab Services LLC. Geographically, IL leads with 523 filings (avg $69,730), followed by NY, CA, MD. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Occupational Therapists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.