H-1B demand profile: Pharmacists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 29-1051-00, employers filed 1,208 Labor Condition Applications for Pharmacists positions across 475 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97.6% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Pharmacists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Pharmacists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $41,250 at the floor to $282,880 at the ceiling, with an average of $129,921. 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 Pharmacists. The top sponsor is CVS Rx Services Inc with 271 petitions at an average offered wage of $131,702, followed by Safeway Inc, Walgreen Co, Wal-Mart Associates, Inc. Geographically, TX leads with 135 filings (avg $128,078), followed by CA, FL, NY. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Pharmacists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.