H-1B demand profile: Environmental Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2081-00, employers filed 1,459 Labor Condition Applications for Environmental Engineers positions across 512 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97.3% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Environmental 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 Environmental Engineers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $36,213 at the floor to $960,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $99,335. 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 Environmental Engineers. The top sponsor is Geosyntec Consultants, Inc with 65 petitions at an average offered wage of $104,710, followed by Carollo Engineers, Inc, WSP USA Inc, Arcadis US Inc. Geographically, CA leads with 304 filings (avg $111,756), followed by TX, NJ, NY. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Environmental Engineers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.