H-1B demand profile: Transportation Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2051-01, employers filed 1,034 Labor Condition Applications for Transportation Engineers positions across 238 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 Transportation 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 Transportation Engineers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $48,568 at the floor to $864,360 at the ceiling, with an average of $94,166. 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 Transportation Engineers. The top sponsor is California Department of Transportation with 189 petitions at an average offered wage of $92,930, followed by WSP USA Inc, HDR Engineering, Inc, AECOM Technical Services Inc. Geographically, CA leads with 259 filings (avg $97,789), followed by TX, FL, VA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Transportation Engineers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.