H-1B demand profile: Water Resource Specialists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 11-9121-02, employers filed 20 Labor Condition Applications for Water Resource Specialists positions across 13 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 100% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Water Resource Specialists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Water Resource Specialists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $50,000 at the floor to $142,251 at the ceiling, with an average of $79,235. 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 Water Resource Specialists. The top sponsor is Research Foundation for the State University of New York with 4 petitions at an average offered wage of $80,003, followed by Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, The Pennsylvania State University, Auburn University. Geographically, NY leads with 5 filings (avg $78,513), followed by NE, PA, AL. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Water Resource Specialists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.