Chemical Engineers
SOC Code: 17-2041.00
The DOL disclosure extract lists 3,803 H-1B LCA filings for Chemical Engineers from 1,162 employer filers, with a 97.1% DOL certification rate and an average listed offered wage of $113,506. The highest-volume worksite state is CA with 674 filings. The highest-volume filer is The Dow Chemical Company. These filings are not USCIS petition approvals or visa outcomes.
LCA filing profile: Chemical Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2041.00, the extract lists 3,803 Labor Condition Application filings from 1,162 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, Chemical Engineers ranks #71 of 1,219 occupational codes in the current PlainVisa dataset, placing it in the top 7% 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 Chemical Engineers. The highest-volume employer filer is The Dow Chemical Company with 83 filings at an average listed offered wage of $117,541, followed by Amgen Inc., Applied Materials, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Geographically, CA leads with 674 filings (average listed wage $125,767), followed by TX, MA, IL. These distributions describe DOL filing records only; they do not measure labor-market demand, confirmed sponsorship, hiring, or visa outcomes.
Top Employers for Chemical Engineers
Employer filers with the most listed LCAs for this occupation
| Employer | LCA filings | Avg. Salary |
|---|---|---|
| The Dow Chemical Company | 83 | $117,541 |
| Amgen Inc. | 79 | $118,481 |
| Applied Materials, Inc. | 62 | $138,625 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 60 | $72,225 |
| Battelle Memorial Institute | 59 | $95,734 |
| Eli Lilly and Company | 54 | $132,803 |
| Micron Technology, Inc. | 50 | $118,246 |
| Western Digital Technologies, Inc. | 37 | $140,593 |
| ModernaTX, Inc. | 36 | $117,709 |
| Ut-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) | 36 | $100,293 |
| L&t Technology Services Limited | 35 | $92,663 |
| Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 31 | $123,973 |
| Tesla, INC. | 30 | $146,265 |
| Worley Group, Inc. | 24 | $160,744 |
| Evonik Corporation | 22 | $112,279 |
| University of Wisconsin System | 22 | $60,071 |
| Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC | 20 | $87,339 |
| Apple Inc. | 20 | $157,577 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | 20 | $65,067 |
| Technip Energies USA, Inc. | 20 | $135,553 |
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