H-1B demand profile: Aerospace Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2011-00, employers filed 999 Labor Condition Applications for Aerospace Engineers positions across 285 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97.4% 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 $53,061 at the floor to $300,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $122,885. 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 SIA ENGINERING (USA) INC with 48 petitions at an average offered wage of $123,665, followed by Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, Joby Aero, Inc, The Boeing Company. Geographically, CA leads with 355 filings (avg $143,143), followed by GA, FL, WA. 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.