H-1B demand profile: Cooks, Restaurant. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 35-2014-00, employers filed 52 Labor Condition Applications for Cooks, Restaurant positions across 27 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 61.5% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Cooks, Restaurant among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Cooks, Restaurant. Offered wages on LCAs range from $22,880 at the floor to $140,400 at the ceiling, with an average of $42,580. 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 Cooks, Restaurant. The top sponsor is Kasama Restaurant LLC with 5 petitions at an average offered wage of $40,352, followed by Cyrus 20 LLC, Kore Restaurant Group, ES Rich, LLC. Geographically, CA leads with 22 filings (avg $51,447), followed by IL, FL, TX. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Cooks, Restaurant actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.