H-1B demand profile: Computer Hardware Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2061, employers filed 9 Labor Condition Applications for Computer Hardware Engineers positions across 5 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 100% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Computer Hardware 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 Computer Hardware Engineers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $68,571 at the floor to $225,709 at the ceiling, with an average of $154,596. 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 Computer Hardware Engineers. The top sponsor is LATTICE SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION with 3 petitions at an average offered wage of $160,347, followed by Meta Platforms, Inc, Quasistatics Inc, Grey Orange Incorporated. Geographically, CA leads with 4 filings (avg $205,699), followed by IN, OR, OH. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Computer Hardware Engineers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.