Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers
SOC Code: 17-2031.00
The DOL disclosure extract lists 5,330 H-1B LCA filings for Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers from 1,354 employer filers, with a 97.1% DOL certification rate and an average listed offered wage of $103,425. The highest-volume worksite state is CA with 1,575 filings. The highest-volume filer is Medtronic, Inc.. These filings are not USCIS petition approvals or visa outcomes.
LCA filing profile: Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2031.00, the extract lists 5,330 Labor Condition Application filings from 1,354 distinct employer filers. The DOL certified 97.1% of those filings, a DOL record status for the wage and working-condition attestations. Filing volume does not establish that a role qualifies for H-1B, that a USCIS petition was filed or approved, or that anyone was hired.
Where this occupation sits in the corpus. By disclosed LCA volume, Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers ranks #55 of 1,219 occupational codes in the current PlainVisa dataset, placing it in the top 5% by filings. This is a corpus-relative rank computed from the same FY2023–FY2026 DOL disclosure snapshot as this profile, not a measure of job quality, worker demand, or visa approval odds.
Where LCA filings are recorded for Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers. The highest-volume employer filer is Medtronic, Inc. with 103 filings at an average listed offered wage of $110,836, followed by The Leland Stanford, Jr University, University of California, San Francisco, Children's Hospital Corporation. Geographically, CA leads with 1,575 filings (average listed wage $117,776), followed by MA, TX, NY. These distributions describe DOL filing records only; they do not measure labor-market demand, confirmed sponsorship, hiring, or visa outcomes.
Top Employers for Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers
Employer filers with the most listed LCAs for this occupation
| Employer | LCA filings | Avg. Salary |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic, Inc. | 103 | $110,836 |
| The Leland Stanford, Jr University | 100 | $94,313 |
| University of California, San Francisco | 63 | $84,798 |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | 56 | $96,957 |
| Johns Hopkins University | 55 | $74,898 |
| St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc. | 55 | $119,589 |
| Eli Lilly and Company | 53 | $134,921 |
| Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | 53 | $141,716 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | 51 | $73,402 |
| Amgen Inc. | 47 | $117,862 |
| Emory University | 47 | $79,825 |
| Bio-Med Services, INC. | 42 | $75,819 |
| Becton, Dickinson and Company | 41 | $128,015 |
| Columbia University | 39 | $83,064 |
| Alcon Research, LLC | 36 | $92,289 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 34 | $131,014 |
| University of Michigan | 33 | $63,551 |
| Harvard University | 31 | $77,655 |
| Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc. | 30 | $123,197 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 29 | $77,067 |
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