H-1B demand profile: Financial Quantitative Analysts. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 13-2099-01, employers filed 10,821 Labor Condition Applications for Financial Quantitative Analysts positions across 1,782 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 92% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Financial Quantitative 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 Quantitative Analysts. Offered wages on LCAs range from $30,160 at the floor to $935,558 at the ceiling, with an average of $139,515. 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 Quantitative Analysts. The top sponsor is GOLDMAN SACHS & CO LLC with 693 petitions at an average offered wage of $141,179, followed by JPMORGAN CHASE & CO, Ernst & Young US LLP, Citibank, NA. Geographically, NY leads with 5,172 filings (avg $159,928), followed by CA, TX, IL. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Financial Quantitative Analysts actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.