H-1B demand profile: Personal Care Aides. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 31-1122-00, employers filed 20 Labor Condition Applications for Personal Care Aides positions across 17 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 Personal Care Aides among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Personal Care Aides. Offered wages on LCAs range from $20,800 at the floor to $78,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $36,094. 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 Personal Care Aides. The top sponsor is Amazing Support Home Care with 2 petitions at an average offered wage of $60,000, followed by Cardinal Home Care Agency LLC, Viola Ventures, AAA 24/7 CAREGIVER SERVICE LLC. Geographically, NC leads with 6 filings (avg $26,811), followed by CA, MN, FL. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Personal Care Aides actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.