H-1B demand profile: Water/Wastewater Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2051-02, employers filed 522 Labor Condition Applications for Water/Wastewater Engineers positions across 154 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 96.2% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Water/Wastewater 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 Water/Wastewater Engineers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $54,480 at the floor to $321,100 at the ceiling, with an average of $93,717. 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 Water/Wastewater Engineers. The top sponsor is HDR Engineering, Inc with 41 petitions at an average offered wage of $95,218, followed by WSP USA Inc, Arcadis US, Inc, Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. Geographically, TX leads with 98 filings (avg $95,008), followed by CA, VA, FL. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Water/Wastewater Engineers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.