H-1B demand profile: Physician Assistants. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 29-1071, employers filed 3 Labor Condition Applications for Physician Assistants positions across 2 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 66.7% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Physician Assistants among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Physician Assistants. Offered wages on LCAs range from $129,875 at the floor to $169,416 at the ceiling, with an average of $156,236. 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 Physician Assistants. The top sponsor is Stanford Health Care with 2 petitions at an average offered wage of $169,416, followed by Trinity Health of New England Provider Network Organization, Inc. Geographically, CA leads with 2 filings (avg $169,416), followed by CT. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Physician Assistants actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.