H-1B demand profile: Waiters and Waitresses. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 35-3031-00, employers filed 9 Labor Condition Applications for Waiters and Waitresses positions across 4 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 55.6% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Waiters and Waitresses among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Waiters and Waitresses. Offered wages on LCAs range from $31,200 at the floor to $41,600 at the ceiling, with an average of $33,987. 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 Waiters and Waitresses. The top sponsor is Springtree Marina LLC with 3 petitions at an average offered wage of $31,200, followed by Troubadour HBG LLC, Silvara Cellars, LLC, Fayard Winemaking. Geographically, CA leads with 4 filings (avg $36,140), followed by VT, WA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Waiters and Waitresses actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.