H-1B demand profile: Electrical Engineers, R&D. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2074-00, employers filed 821 Labor Condition Applications for Electrical Engineers, R&D positions across 114 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97.4% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Electrical 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 Electrical Engineers, R&D. Offered wages on LCAs range from $25,189 at the floor to $240,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $90,165. 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, R&D. The top sponsor is Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC with 81 petitions at an average offered wage of $92,598, followed by Battelle Memorial Institute, Ut-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. Geographically, CO leads with 108 filings (avg $89,103), followed by CA, TN, NY. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Electrical 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.