H-1B demand profile: Desktop Publishers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 43-9031-00, employers filed 2 Labor Condition Applications for Desktop Publishers positions across 2 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 100% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Desktop Publishers among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Desktop Publishers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $80,000 at the floor to $182,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $131,000. 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 Desktop Publishers. The top sponsor is Microsoft Corporation with 1 petitions at an average offered wage of $182,000, followed by University of Maryland Baltimore. Geographically, MD leads with 1 filings (avg $80,000), followed by WA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Desktop Publishers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.