H-1B demand profile: Surgeons. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 29-1067-00, employers filed 24 Labor Condition Applications for Surgeons positions across 21 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 100% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Surgeons among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Surgeons. Offered wages on LCAs range from $68,210 at the floor to $899,496 at the ceiling, with an average of $311,697. 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 Surgeons. The top sponsor is Scott & White Clinic with 2 petitions at an average offered wage of $350,000, followed by The University of Chicago, University of Alabama Health Services Foundation, PC, Advanced Orthopedic and Spine Care, SC. Geographically, IL leads with 5 filings (avg $293,200), followed by TX, AL, NY. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Surgeons actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.