H-1B demand profile: Cost Estimators. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 13-1051, employers filed 22 Labor Condition Applications for Cost Estimators positions across 18 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 Cost Estimators among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Cost Estimators. Offered wages on LCAs range from $60,000 at the floor to $154,960 at the ceiling, with an average of $103,269. 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 Cost Estimators. The top sponsor is HNTB Corporation with 3 petitions at an average offered wage of $141,565, followed by Blackwood of DC, BNBuilders, Inc, Adventures Outback. Geographically, CA leads with 5 filings (avg $110,156), followed by FL, DC, NY. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Cost Estimators actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.