H-1B demand profile: Hospitalists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 29-1229-02, employers filed 5,026 Labor Condition Applications for Hospitalists positions across 729 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 91.1% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Hospitalists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Hospitalists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $52,842 at the floor to $887,500 at the ceiling, with an average of $267,605. 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 Hospitalists. The top sponsor is Hospitalist Medicine Physicians of Texas, PLLC with 129 petitions at an average offered wage of $268,761, followed by USACS Medical Group Ltd, Apogee Medical Group, Delaware, Inc, South Sound Inpatient Physicians, PLLC. Geographically, NY leads with 461 filings (avg $220,142), followed by PA, MA, OH. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Hospitalists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.