H-1B demand profile: Climate Change Policy Analysts. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-2041-01, employers filed 271 Labor Condition Applications for Climate Change Policy Analysts positions across 79 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 96.7% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Climate Change Policy 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 Climate Change Policy Analysts. Offered wages on LCAs range from $51,459 at the floor to $257,500 at the ceiling, with an average of $107,600. 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 Climate Change Policy Analysts. The top sponsor is Ernst & Young US LLP with 92 petitions at an average offered wage of $127,788, followed by World Resources Institute, ClimateWorks Foundation, Inc, ICF Incorporated, LLC. Geographically, DC leads with 52 filings (avg $106,668), followed by NY, CA, MA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Climate Change Policy Analysts actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.