H-1B demand profile: Electrical Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2071, employers filed 533 Labor Condition Applications for Electrical Engineers positions across 81 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 98.5% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Electrical 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 Electrical Engineers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $60,195 at the floor to $225,451 at the ceiling, with an average of $105,837. 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 Electrical Engineers. The top sponsor is Black & Veatch Corporation with 161 petitions at an average offered wage of $95,531, followed by Global Technology Associates, LLC, NextGen Global Resources, LLC, T-Mobile USA, Inc. Geographically, TX leads with 98 filings (avg $100,149), followed by MI, CA, KS. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Electrical Engineers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.