H-1B demand profile: Chefs and Head Cooks. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 35-1011-00, employers filed 285 Labor Condition Applications for Chefs and Head Cooks positions across 170 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 76.1% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Chefs and Head Cooks among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Chefs and Head Cooks. Offered wages on LCAs range from $33,051 at the floor to $205,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $70,922. 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 Chefs and Head Cooks. The top sponsor is SHOTO DC LLC with 7 petitions at an average offered wage of $76,629, followed by MARNIT INC, Stone Barns Restoration Corp, ALPENCAFE, LLC. Geographically, CA leads with 64 filings (avg $75,932), followed by NY, FL, TX. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Chefs and Head Cooks actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.