H-1B demand profile: Occupational Therapy Assistants. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 31-2011-00, employers filed 3 Labor Condition Applications for Occupational Therapy Assistants positions across 3 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 66.7% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Occupational Therapy Assistants among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Occupational Therapy Assistants. Offered wages on LCAs range from $62,234 at the floor to $74,859 at the ceiling, with an average of $68,578. 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 Occupational Therapy Assistants. The top sponsor is Mater Academy of Nevada with 1 petitions at an average offered wage of $62,234, followed by Mission Arch Operator LLC, Occuthrive Therapy LLC. Geographically, FL leads with 1 filings (avg $68,640), followed by NM, NV. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Occupational Therapy Assistants actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.