H-1B demand profile: Penetration Testers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 15-1299-04, employers filed 66 Labor Condition Applications for Penetration Testers positions across 40 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 95.5% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Penetration Testers among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Penetration Testers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $58,802 at the floor to $224,297 at the ceiling, with an average of $120,904. 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 Penetration Testers. The top sponsor is Praetorian Security, Inc with 8 petitions at an average offered wage of $120,375, followed by Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, Dell USA LP, Equifax Inc. Geographically, TX leads with 19 filings (avg $127,570), followed by CA, NJ, NC. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Penetration Testers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.