H-1B demand profile: Civil Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2051-00, employers filed 15,295 Labor Condition Applications for Civil Engineers positions across 3,850 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 91.4% 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 $20,280 at the floor to $998,400 at the ceiling, with an average of $94,327. 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 WSP USA Inc with 314 petitions at an average offered wage of $100,652, followed by Amazon Data Services, Inc, AECOM Technical Services Inc, Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. Geographically, TX leads with 2,346 filings (avg $94,692), followed by CA, NY, FL. 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.