H-1B demand profile: Surgical Assistants. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 29-9093-00, employers filed 6 Labor Condition Applications for Surgical Assistants positions across 5 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 50% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Surgical Assistants among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Surgical Assistants. Offered wages on LCAs range from $55,000 at the floor to $119,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $72,171. 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 Surgical Assistants. The top sponsor is Adam N Summers MD LLC with 2 petitions at an average offered wage of $64,320, followed by Howard University, Maryland Plastic Surgery, Maryland Plastic Surgery, LLC. Geographically, MD leads with 4 filings (avg $62,160), followed by DC, NY. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Surgical Assistants actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.