H-1B demand profile: Financial Risk Specialists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 13-2054-00, employers filed 4,992 Labor Condition Applications for Financial Risk Specialists positions across 579 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 98.3% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Financial Risk 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 Financial Risk Specialists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $32,400 at the floor to $392,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $132,588. 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 Risk Specialists. The top sponsor is Ernst & Young US LLP with 1,412 petitions at an average offered wage of $139,700, followed by Goldman Sachs & Co LLC, Citibank, NA, Microsoft Corporation. Geographically, NY leads with 1,576 filings (avg $155,556), followed by TX, CA, NJ. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Financial Risk Specialists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.