H-1B demand profile: Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2031-00, employers filed 4,817 Labor Condition Applications for Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers positions across 1,316 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Bioengineers and Biomedical 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 Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $42,245 at the floor to $888,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $102,838. 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 Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers. The top sponsor is Medtronic, Inc with 99 petitions at an average offered wage of $109,828, followed by The Leland Stanford, Jr University, St Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc, University of California, San Francisco. Geographically, CA leads with 1,444 filings (avg $116,943), followed by MA, TX, NY. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.