H-1B demand profile: Human Resources Specialists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 13-1071-00, employers filed 2,954 Labor Condition Applications for Human Resources Specialists positions across 1,432 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97.3% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Human Resources 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 Human Resources Specialists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $32,947 at the floor to $744,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $88,341. 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 Human Resources Specialists. The top sponsor is Amazon.com Services LLC with 199 petitions at an average offered wage of $102,686, followed by Ernst & Young US LLP, Bytedance Inc, Ascendion, Inc (formerly known as Collabera, Inc). Geographically, CA leads with 565 filings (avg $106,061), followed by NY, TX, NJ. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Human Resources Specialists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.