H-1B demand profile: Nurse Practitioners. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 29-1171-00, employers filed 244 Labor Condition Applications for Nurse Practitioners positions across 168 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 95.9% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Nurse Practitioners among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Nurse Practitioners. Offered wages on LCAs range from $80,000 at the floor to $200,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $127,330. 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 Nurse Practitioners. The top sponsor is Apogee Medical Group, New York, PC with 7 petitions at an average offered wage of $154,831, followed by Golden Valley Health Centers, Sanford Clinic North, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Geographically, NY leads with 58 filings (avg $139,321), followed by CA, FL, WA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Nurse Practitioners actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.