H-1B demand profile: Civil Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2051, employers filed 315 Labor Condition Applications for Civil Engineers positions across 79 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 98.4% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Civil 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 Civil Engineers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $50,000 at the floor to $239,117 at the ceiling, with an average of $93,001. 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 Civil Engineers. The top sponsor is Black & Veatch Corporation with 49 petitions at an average offered wage of $87,166, followed by HNTB Corporation, TranSystems Corporation, LEGO Construction Co. Geographically, FL leads with 57 filings (avg $79,479), followed by TX, CA, WA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Civil Engineers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.