H-1B demand profile: Recreational Therapists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 29-1125-00, employers filed 56 Labor Condition Applications for Recreational Therapists positions across 29 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 Recreational 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 Recreational Therapists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $31,111 at the floor to $98,028 at the ceiling, with an average of $61,908. 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 Recreational Therapists. The top sponsor is Department of State Hospitals - Coalinga with 8 petitions at an average offered wage of $87,860, followed by Abraxas Alliance, Inc, Beautiful Gate Center, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Geographically, CA leads with 19 filings (avg $80,579), followed by IL, FL, MA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Recreational Therapists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.