H-1B demand profile: Dental Hygienists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 29-1292-00, employers filed 15 Labor Condition Applications for Dental Hygienists positions across 9 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 60% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Dental Hygienists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Dental Hygienists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $63,669 at the floor to $144,872 at the ceiling, with an average of $106,047. 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 Dental Hygienists. The top sponsor is Michael L Bilikas, DDS PS with 5 petitions at an average offered wage of $133,307, followed by GBCC Dental PLCC, Hawkeye Dental of Tallahassee, LLC, 32 Pearls. Geographically, WA leads with 7 filings (avg $133,165), followed by FL, TX, CA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Dental Hygienists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.