Financial and Investment Analysts
SOC Code: 13-2051.00
The DOL disclosure extract lists 30,653 H-1B LCA filings for Financial and Investment Analysts from 6,347 employer filers, with a 97.6% DOL certification rate and an average listed offered wage of $146,971. The highest-volume worksite state is NY with 13,976 filings. The highest-volume filer is Ernst & Young U.S. LLP. These filings are not USCIS petition approvals or visa outcomes.
LCA filing profile: Financial and Investment Analysts. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 13-2051.00, the extract lists 30,653 Labor Condition Application filings from 6,347 distinct employer filers. The DOL certified 97.6% of those filings, a DOL record status for the wage and working-condition attestations. Filing volume does not establish that a role qualifies for H-1B, that a USCIS petition was filed or approved, or that anyone was hired.
Where this occupation sits in the corpus. By disclosed LCA volume, Financial and Investment Analysts ranks #12 of 1,219 occupational codes in the current PlainVisa dataset, placing it in the top 2% by filings. This is a corpus-relative rank computed from the same FY2023–FY2026 DOL disclosure snapshot as this profile, not a measure of job quality, worker demand, or visa approval odds.
Where LCA filings are recorded for Financial and Investment Analysts. The highest-volume employer filer is Ernst & Young U.S. LLP with 3,824 filings at an average listed offered wage of $167,984, followed by Jpmorgan Chase & CO., Goldman Sachs & CO. LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.. Geographically, NY leads with 13,976 filings (average listed wage $164,594), followed by CA, TX, IL. These distributions describe DOL filing records only; they do not measure labor-market demand, confirmed sponsorship, hiring, or visa outcomes.
Top Employers for Financial and Investment Analysts
Employer filers with the most listed LCAs for this occupation
| Employer | LCA filings | Avg. Salary |
|---|---|---|
| Ernst & Young U.S. LLP | 3,824 | $167,984 |
| Jpmorgan Chase & CO. | 960 | $165,498 |
| Goldman Sachs & CO. LLC | 931 | $153,916 |
| Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. | 571 | $152,975 |
| Bofa Securities, INC. | 537 | $196,318 |
| Morgan Stanley & Co., LLC | 412 | $196,471 |
| Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC | 361 | $155,840 |
| Citibank, N.A. | 280 | $168,977 |
| Google LLC | 275 | $162,330 |
| PJT Partners Holdings LP | 246 | $161,668 |
| Amazon.com Services LLC | 241 | $117,948 |
| Evercore Partners Services East LLC | 240 | $158,528 |
| Jefferies LLC | 239 | $167,195 |
| Blackrock Financial Management, INC. | 201 | $136,951 |
| Citigroup Global Markets Inc. | 193 | $170,512 |
| KPMG LLP | 160 | $145,172 |
| Macquarie Holdings (USA) Inc. | 157 | $193,787 |
| Bridgewater Associates, LP | 155 | $146,841 |
| MPG Operations LLC | 155 | $128,910 |
| Barclays Capital Inc. | 152 | $195,174 |
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