H-1B demand profile: Regulatory Affairs Specialists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 13-1041-07, employers filed 2,815 Labor Condition Applications for Regulatory Affairs Specialists positions across 1,086 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97.6% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Regulatory Affairs Specialists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Regulatory Affairs Specialists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $38,200 at the floor to $245,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $95,929. 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 Regulatory Affairs Specialists. The top sponsor is Medtronic, Inc with 80 petitions at an average offered wage of $85,878, followed by Unicon Pharma Inc, Freyr, Inc, Covidien LP. Geographically, CA leads with 504 filings (avg $108,706), followed by NJ, MA, NY. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Regulatory Affairs Specialists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.