H-1B demand profile: Athletic Trainers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 29-9091, employers filed 8 Labor Condition Applications for Athletic Trainers positions across 6 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 100% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Athletic Trainers among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Athletic Trainers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $39,000 at the floor to $58,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $48,569. 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 Athletic Trainers. The top sponsor is Fort Hays State University with 2 petitions at an average offered wage of $39,000, followed by University of Idaho, Holy Cross Hospital, Inc, Seattle University. Geographically, ID leads with 2 filings (avg $47,424), followed by KS, FL, MI. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Athletic Trainers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.