H-1B demand profile: Athletic Trainers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 29-9091-00, employers filed 269 Labor Condition Applications for Athletic Trainers positions across 161 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97.4% 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 $34,890 at the floor to $600,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $67,568. 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 Ochsner Clinic Foundation with 10 petitions at an average offered wage of $52,887, followed by UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside, Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund, The Ohio University. Geographically, FL leads with 28 filings (avg $70,630), followed by TX, LA, OH. 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.