H-1B demand profile: Physician Assistants. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 29-1071-00, employers filed 151 Labor Condition Applications for Physician Assistants positions across 93 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97.4% 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 $79,768 at the floor to $197,600 at the ceiling, with an average of $124,770. 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 FAMILY HEALTHCARE NETWORK with 8 petitions at an average offered wage of $138,988, followed by Montefiore Medical Center, St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Greenwich Hospital. Geographically, NY leads with 39 filings (avg $131,805), followed by CA, PA, MA. 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.