H-1B demand profile: Respiratory Therapists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 29-1126-00, employers filed 29 Labor Condition Applications for Respiratory Therapists positions across 10 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 96.6% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Respiratory 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 Respiratory Therapists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $48,027 at the floor to $89,440 at the ceiling, with an average of $69,023. 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 Respiratory Therapists. The top sponsor is Rush University Medical Center with 7 petitions at an average offered wage of $72,956, followed by UofL Health - Louisville, Inc, Grady Health System, Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare, Inc. Geographically, KY leads with 9 filings (avg $63,397), followed by IL, FL, GA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Respiratory Therapists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.