H-1B demand profile: Actuaries. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 15-2011-00, employers filed 1,758 Labor Condition Applications for Actuaries positions across 258 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 98.1% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Actuaries among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Actuaries. Offered wages on LCAs range from $48,838 at the floor to $300,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $132,637. 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 Actuaries. The top sponsor is Ernst & Young US LLP with 299 petitions at an average offered wage of $157,967, followed by American General Life Insurance Company, New York Life Insurance Company, The Prudential Insurance Company of America. Geographically, NY leads with 452 filings (avg $145,403), followed by NJ, CA, IL. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Actuaries actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.