H-1B demand profile: Electrical Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2071-00, employers filed 22,530 Labor Condition Applications for Electrical Engineers positions across 4,340 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 90.7% 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 $30,720 at the floor to $977,916 at the ceiling, with an average of $122,687. 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 Apple Inc with 994 petitions at an average offered wage of $164,407, followed by Microsoft Corporation, Micron Technology, Inc, Cummins Inc. Geographically, CA leads with 5,847 filings (avg $153,328), followed by TX, MI, IL. 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.