H-1B demand profile: Operations Research Analysts. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 15-2031, employers filed 459 Labor Condition Applications for Operations Research Analysts positions across 85 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 Operations Research 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 Operations Research Analysts. Offered wages on LCAs range from $49,400 at the floor to $276,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $125,826. 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 Operations Research Analysts. The top sponsor is IQVIA Inc with 269 petitions at an average offered wage of $126,871, followed by ZS Associates, Inc, TriNet USA, Inc, Amazon.com Services LLC. Geographically, CA leads with 123 filings (avg $130,987), followed by NY, PA, MA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Operations Research Analysts actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.