H-1B demand profile: Acute Care Nurses. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 29-1141-01, employers filed 113 Labor Condition Applications for Acute Care Nurses positions across 22 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 98.2% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Acute Care 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 Acute Care Nurses. Offered wages on LCAs range from $56,285 at the floor to $124,072 at the ceiling, with an average of $81,116. 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 Acute Care Nurses. The top sponsor is Emory Healthcare, Inc with 44 petitions at an average offered wage of $83,230, followed by Idaho Healthcare Institute, Flint Healthcare Inc, Procareer Staffing Agency, LLC. Geographically, GA leads with 49 filings (avg $81,511), followed by ID, NY, FL. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Acute Care Nurses actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.