H-1B demand profile: Chemical Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2041-00, employers filed 3,442 Labor Condition Applications for Chemical Engineers positions across 1,139 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 Chemical 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 Chemical Engineers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $44,595 at the floor to $931,512 at the ceiling, with an average of $112,667. 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 Chemical Engineers. The top sponsor is THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY with 78 petitions at an average offered wage of $116,860, followed by Amgen Inc, Applied Materials, Inc, Battelle Memorial Institute. Geographically, CA leads with 611 filings (avg $124,660), followed by TX, MA, IL. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Chemical Engineers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.