H-1B demand profile: Cost Estimators. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 13-1051-00, employers filed 2,255 Labor Condition Applications for Cost Estimators positions across 1,013 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 95.7% 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 $27,456 at the floor to $882,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $97,509. 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 Turner & Townsend, Inc with 98 petitions at an average offered wage of $131,477, followed by Cumming Management Group, Inc, Currie & Brown Inc, Fluor Enterprises, Inc. Geographically, NY leads with 384 filings (avg $94,174), followed by CA, TX, FL. 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.