H-1B demand profile: Budget Analysts. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 13-2031-00, employers filed 912 Labor Condition Applications for Budget Analysts positions across 563 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97.8% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Budget Analysts among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Budget Analysts. Offered wages on LCAs range from $40,000 at the floor to $735,324 at the ceiling, with an average of $87,924. 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 Budget Analysts. The top sponsor is Microsoft Corporation with 64 petitions at an average offered wage of $138,672, followed by Georgetown University, Deloitte Services LP, Hungrypanda US Inc. Geographically, NY leads with 172 filings (avg $96,113), followed by CA, TX, NJ. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Budget Analysts actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.