H-1B demand profile: Computer Hardware Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2061-00, employers filed 3,903 Labor Condition Applications for Computer Hardware Engineers positions across 489 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 98.9% 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 $49,358 at the floor to $460,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $166,499. 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 Google LLC with 856 petitions at an average offered wage of $181,054, followed by Amazon.com Services LLC, Microsoft Corporation, Meta Platforms, Inc. Geographically, CA leads with 2,198 filings (avg $184,500), followed by TX, WA, MA. 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.