H-1B demand profile: Project Management Specialists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 13-1082, employers filed 87 Labor Condition Applications for Project Management Specialists positions across 38 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97.7% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Project Management 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 Project Management Specialists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $48,000 at the floor to $239,400 at the ceiling, with an average of $127,043. 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 Project Management Specialists. The top sponsor is IQVIA Inc with 27 petitions at an average offered wage of $146,910, followed by IQVIA RDS Inc, University of Michigan, HNTB Corporation. Geographically, NY leads with 15 filings (avg $142,804), followed by CA, NC, MI. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Project Management Specialists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.