H-1B demand profile: Nursing Assistants. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 31-1131-00, employers filed 21 Labor Condition Applications for Nursing Assistants positions across 12 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 52.4% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Nursing 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 Nursing Assistants. Offered wages on LCAs range from $24,107 at the floor to $68,640 at the ceiling, with an average of $42,467. 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 Nursing Assistants. The top sponsor is Meazi Staffing Agency LLC with 4 petitions at an average offered wage of $31,408, followed by Optimum Care Services, LLC, Integrate, LLC, ST ELIAS MEDICAL GROUP. Geographically, NJ leads with 5 filings (avg $41,184), followed by NY, WA, CA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Nursing Assistants actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.