H-1B demand profile: Veterinarians. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 29-1131-00, employers filed 1,363 Labor Condition Applications for Veterinarians positions across 454 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 95% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Veterinarians among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Veterinarians. Offered wages on LCAs range from $26,153 at the floor to $442,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $129,436. 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 Veterinarians. The top sponsor is Medical Management International, Inc with 88 petitions at an average offered wage of $157,533, followed by Vca Inc, North Carolina State University, Iowa State University of Science and Technology. Geographically, CA leads with 420 filings (avg $166,746), followed by TX, NY, NC. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Veterinarians actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.