H-1B demand profile: Agricultural Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2021-00, employers filed 281 Labor Condition Applications for Agricultural Engineers positions across 127 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 94% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Agricultural 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 Agricultural Engineers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $45,843 at the floor to $637,224 at the ceiling, with an average of $85,570. 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 Agricultural Engineers. The top sponsor is Texas A&M AgriLife Research with 12 petitions at an average offered wage of $78,477, followed by Pinebloom Packing, LLC, Qcworldfruit Limited Liability Company, Sortpack Inc. Geographically, CA leads with 63 filings (avg $100,123), followed by TX, NJ, GA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Agricultural Engineers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.