H-1B demand profile: Aerospace Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2011, employers filed 20 Labor Condition Applications for Aerospace Engineers positions across 9 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 Aerospace 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 Aerospace Engineers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $55,000 at the floor to $165,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $111,790. 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 Aerospace Engineers. The top sponsor is Hi-Tek Professionals, Inc with 6 petitions at an average offered wage of $144,442, followed by CTS Technical Services, Inc, Texas A&m Engineering Experiment Station, Florida A&M University. Geographically, FL leads with 3 filings (avg $60,667), followed by GA, NC, TX. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Aerospace Engineers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.