H-1B demand profile: Speech-Language Pathologists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 29-1127, employers filed 8 Labor Condition Applications for Speech-Language Pathologists positions across 7 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 87.5% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Speech-Language Pathologists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Speech-Language Pathologists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $61,318 at the floor to $112,778 at the ceiling, with an average of $89,477. 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 Speech-Language Pathologists. The top sponsor is MHH Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology Therapy Services PLLC with 2 petitions at an average offered wage of $108,160, followed by Chowchilla Elementary School District, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Kingman Healthcare, Inc. Geographically, CA leads with 3 filings (avg $86,958), followed by NY, AZ, MD. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Speech-Language Pathologists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.