Specialty (except Psychiatric and Substance Abuse) Hospitals H-1B Wage Premium
The DOL prevailing wage is the legal minimum an employer must pay for a given role, level, and location — not a target. Employers classified under Specialty (except Psychiatric and Substance Abuse) Hospitals (NAICS 6223) pay a median of 22.3% above that floor, but 11.6% of filings are at or within 1% of the legal minimum.
What "Wage Premium" Means
Every H-1B Labor Condition Application states a DOL-determined prevailing wage — the minimum legally required for that occupation, experience level, and worksite. Wage premium is how much an employer's actual offered wage exceeds that floor. A 0% premium means the filing states exactly the legal minimum; it is not evidence of a problem, but it means the offered wage carries no information beyond what the law already requires.
Premium varies enormously by employer within the same industry — some pay the floor on every filing, others consistently pay well above it. The table below is not a ranking of employer quality; it measures one thing only: how each employer's offered wage compares to the legal minimum for Specialty (except Psychiatric and Substance Abuse) Hospitals filings.
Employers Paying Furthest Above the Floor
| Employer | Certified Filings | Avg. Premium |
|---|---|---|
| H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute Lifetime Cancer Screening Center, Inc | 53 | +133.5% |
| The Nemours Foundation - Nemours Children's Health | 81 | +105.9% |
| Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center | 456 | +102.4% |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | 341 | +45.4% |
| New York Society for Relief of Ruptured & Crippled | 127 | +38.4% |
| St. Jude Children's Research Hospital | 1,365 | +35.8% |
| H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Inc. | 193 | +30.9% |
| Roswell Park Cancer Institute | 105 | +28.5% |
Employers with at least 30 certified filings in this industry, ranked by average premium over prevailing wage.
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Computed from US Department of Labor LCA disclosure files for employers classified under NAICS 6223 — Specialty (except Psychiatric and Substance Abuse) Hospitals — comparing each filing's offered annual wage to its own DOL prevailing wage figure (annualized from an hourly rate where filed hourly), filtered to certified petitions with annual wages between $30K and $1M and a positive prevailing wage on file. Per-employer premium is shown only where an employer has at least 30 qualifying filings in this industry, to keep the percentage from being driven by a handful of cases.