H-1B demand profile: Clinical Nurse Specialists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 29-1141-04, employers filed 77 Labor Condition Applications for Clinical Nurse Specialists positions across 43 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 94.8% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Clinical Nurse Specialists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Clinical Nurse Specialists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $53,456 at the floor to $170,469 at the ceiling, with an average of $88,683. 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 Clinical Nurse Specialists. The top sponsor is Lifeline Nursing Solutions, LLC with 8 petitions at an average offered wage of $68,975, followed by The Caroline Kline Galland Home, University of Maryland Charles Regional Medical Center, NeuKloud Inc. Geographically, TX leads with 14 filings (avg $72,090), followed by NY, WA, MD. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Clinical Nurse Specialists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.