H-1B demand profile: Critical Care Nurses. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 29-1141-03, employers filed 437 Labor Condition Applications for Critical Care Nurses positions across 50 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 96.8% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Critical 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 Critical Care Nurses. Offered wages on LCAs range from $47,362 at the floor to $142,946 at the ceiling, with an average of $79,819. 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 Critical Care Nurses. The top sponsor is SAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, INC with 51 petitions at an average offered wage of $90,886, followed by Flint Healthcare Inc, Resilience Healthcare Chicago Graduate Education Foundation, Jackson Park Hospital Foundation. Geographically, IL leads with 112 filings (avg $80,824), followed by NJ, LA, NM. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Critical 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.