H-1B demand profile: Civil Engineers, R&D. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2053-00, employers filed 346 Labor Condition Applications for Civil Engineers, R&D positions across 85 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 96.8% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Civil Engineers, R&D 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, R&D. Offered wages on LCAs range from $33,259 at the floor to $171,400 at the ceiling, with an average of $81,250. 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, R&D. The top sponsor is Battelle Memorial Institute with 20 petitions at an average offered wage of $107,733, followed by Ut-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Texas A&M Transportation Institute, The University of Texas at Austin. Geographically, TX leads with 44 filings (avg $89,363), followed by CO, CA, TN. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Civil Engineers, R&D actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.