H-1B demand profile: Information Security Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 15-1299-05, employers filed 4,049 Labor Condition Applications for Information Security Engineers positions across 1,565 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 98.1% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Information Security Engineers among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Information Security Engineers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $31,200 at the floor to $593,034 at the ceiling, with an average of $128,156. 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 Information Security Engineers. The top sponsor is Google LLC with 162 petitions at an average offered wage of $181,722, followed by Hcl America Inc, Amazon.com Services LLC, Visa Technology & Operations LLC. Geographically, CA leads with 870 filings (avg $162,583), followed by TX, NJ, NY. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Information Security Engineers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.