H-1B demand profile: Financial and Investment Analysts. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 13-2051-00, employers filed 27,466 Labor Condition Applications for Financial and Investment Analysts positions across 6,155 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 89.3% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Financial and Investment 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 Financial and Investment Analysts. Offered wages on LCAs range from $33,280 at the floor to $1,000,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $145,629. 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 Financial and Investment Analysts. The top sponsor is Ernst & Young US LLP with 3,404 petitions at an average offered wage of $166,157, followed by GOLDMAN SACHS & CO LLC, JPMORGAN CHASE & CO, Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. Geographically, NY leads with 12,530 filings (avg $163,134), followed by CA, TX, IL. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Financial and Investment Analysts actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.