H-1B demand profile: Dental Assistants. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 31-9091-00, employers filed 17 Labor Condition Applications for Dental Assistants positions across 13 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 64.7% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Dental 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 Dental Assistants. Offered wages on LCAs range from $32,968 at the floor to $70,720 at the ceiling, with an average of $53,250. 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 Assistants. The top sponsor is Matthew R Young, DDS, Inc with 4 petitions at an average offered wage of $62,400, followed by Kramer Periodontics, DENTAL FIRST 3 LLC, DR BRIAN H MILLER DDS. Geographically, CA leads with 5 filings (avg $59,392), followed by MA, FL, GU. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Dental Assistants actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.