H-1B demand profile: Registered Nurses. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 29-1141-00, employers filed 2,638 Labor Condition Applications for Registered Nurses positions across 407 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 93.7% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Registered Nurses among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Registered Nurses. Offered wages on LCAs range from $35,464 at the floor to $197,776 at the ceiling, with an average of $79,626. 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 Registered Nurses. The top sponsor is Avant Healthcare Professionals, LLC with 374 petitions at an average offered wage of $72,107, followed by University of Rochester, Conexus MedStaff LLC, Atlas Healthcare, LLC. Geographically, NY leads with 399 filings (avg $90,050), followed by PA, TN, IL. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Registered Nurses actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.