H-1B demand profile: Hospitalists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 29-1069-03, employers filed 170 Labor Condition Applications for Hospitalists positions across 77 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 Hospitalists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Hospitalists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $117,603 at the floor to $451,381 at the ceiling, with an average of $255,578. 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 Hospitalists. The top sponsor is Hospitalist Medicine Physicians of Texas, PLLC with 23 petitions at an average offered wage of $244,728, followed by Hospitalist Medicine Physicians of Ohio, PC, Cogent Healthcare of North Carolina, PC, Sound Physicians of Illinois, LLC. Geographically, TX leads with 19 filings (avg $233,366), followed by CA, NY, OH. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Hospitalists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.