H-1B demand profile: Sustainability Specialists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 13-1199-05, employers filed 739 Labor Condition Applications for Sustainability Specialists positions across 322 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 96.3% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Sustainability 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 Sustainability Specialists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $40,102 at the floor to $240,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $96,092. 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 Sustainability Specialists. The top sponsor is ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE, INC with 120 petitions at an average offered wage of $96,311, followed by Jones Lang LaSalle Americas, Inc, Deloitte & Touche LLP, Amazon.com Services LLC. Geographically, NY leads with 171 filings (avg $101,993), followed by CA, TX, WA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Sustainability Specialists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.