H-1B activity in District of Columbia. U.S. Department of Labor disclosure data shows 9,409 Labor Condition Applications filed on behalf of H-1B workers in District of Columbia, spanning 2,218 distinct employers. DOL certified these petitions at a 97.2% rate, meaning the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review before USCIS took over final adjudication. That volume gives District of Columbia a measurable footprint in the national H-1B program and a data-backed view of where foreign specialty-occupation workers are being placed on U.S. soil.

What employers are paying. The average offered wage on District of Columbia H-1B petitions is $121,876. Because each LCA must meet or exceed the DOL prevailing wage for the specific role and worksite, this figure reflects genuine pay commitments rather than aspirational market surveys, and it varies with the mix of occupations, wage levels (I through IV), and metropolitan areas active in the state. The single most-sponsored occupation is Software Developers, which alone accounts for 1,576 petitions at an average of $127,240, followed by Lawyers and Computer Systems Engineers/Architects.

Who does the sponsoring. The top H-1B sponsor in District of Columbia is District of Columbia Public Schools with 444 petitions at an average offered wage of $65,251, followed by Georgetown University, Cognizant Technology Solutions US Corp, Children's National Medical Center. Taken together, the 2,218 employers active in the state form a concrete picture of which industries and company sizes rely on H-1B sponsorship inside District of Columbia. Because the data comes directly from DOL LCA disclosures (public record), each figure is auditable down to the individual petition, a meaningful contrast with anecdotal labor-market reporting.

Volume vs. pay, do they agree? By petition volume, District of Columbia ranks #28 of 55 states. By average offered wage, it ranks #7 of 55. That's a 21-place gap, District of Columbia pays comparatively well per H-1B worker despite a modest share of national petition volume, consistent with a smaller number of high-wage specialist sponsors rather than high-volume staffing firms.