H-1B demand profile: Genetic Counselors. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 29-9092-00, employers filed 109 Labor Condition Applications for Genetic Counselors positions across 59 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 99.1% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Genetic Counselors among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Genetic Counselors. Offered wages on LCAs range from $65,437 at the floor to $147,326 at the ceiling, with an average of $89,669. 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 Genetic Counselors. The top sponsor is SHARP HEALTHCARE with 5 petitions at an average offered wage of $140,254, followed by Baptist Health South Florida, Inc, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Northwestern Memorial HealthCare. Geographically, CA leads with 22 filings (avg $113,668), followed by FL, NY, WA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Genetic Counselors actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.