Environmental Engineers
SOC Code: 17-2081.00
The DOL disclosure extract lists 1,611 H-1B LCA filings for Environmental Engineers from 523 employer filers, with a 97.3% DOL certification rate and an average listed offered wage of $99,781. The highest-volume worksite state is CA with 334 filings. The highest-volume filer is Geosyntec Consultants, Inc.. These filings are not USCIS petition approvals or visa outcomes.
LCA filing profile: Environmental Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2081.00, the extract lists 1,611 Labor Condition Application filings from 523 distinct employer filers. The DOL certified 97.3% of those filings, a DOL record status for the wage and working-condition attestations. Filing volume does not establish that a role qualifies for H-1B, that a USCIS petition was filed or approved, or that anyone was hired.
Where this occupation sits in the corpus. By disclosed LCA volume, Environmental Engineers ranks #112 of 1,219 occupational codes in the current PlainVisa dataset, placing it in the top 10% by filings. This is a corpus-relative rank computed from the same FY2023–FY2026 DOL disclosure snapshot as this profile, not a measure of job quality, worker demand, or visa approval odds.
Where LCA filings are recorded for Environmental Engineers. The highest-volume employer filer is Geosyntec Consultants, Inc. with 69 filings at an average listed offered wage of $105,637, followed by Carollo Engineers, INC., WSP USA Inc., UChicago Argonne LLC. Geographically, CA leads with 334 filings (average listed wage $112,279), followed by TX, NY, NJ. These distributions describe DOL filing records only; they do not measure labor-market demand, confirmed sponsorship, hiring, or visa outcomes.
Top Employers for Environmental Engineers
Employer filers with the most listed LCAs for this occupation
| Employer | LCA filings | Avg. Salary |
|---|---|---|
| Geosyntec Consultants, Inc. | 69 | $105,637 |
| Carollo Engineers, INC. | 45 | $94,024 |
| WSP USA Inc. | 44 | $100,441 |
| UChicago Argonne LLC | 36 | $87,542 |
| Arcadis U.S. Inc. | 33 | $101,573 |
| Stantec Consulting Services Inc. | 31 | $110,315 |
| Energy and Environmental Economics, Inc. | 29 | $108,000 |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | 29 | $69,089 |
| California Air Resources Board | 27 | $100,537 |
| AECOM Technical Services, Inc. | 26 | $97,324 |
| Battelle Memorial Institute | 22 | $110,493 |
| Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. | 21 | $118,086 |
| Environmental Resources Management, Inc. | 15 | $122,602 |
| Ut-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) | 15 | $100,043 |
| Ernst & Young U.S. LLP | 14 | $128,366 |
| CDM Smith Inc. | 13 | $97,469 |
| Distinct Engineering Solutions, INC. | 13 | $87,064 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | 13 | $92,720 |
| Kleinfelder, Inc. | 10 | $103,892 |
| Langan Engineering and Environmental Services, LLC | 10 | $82,963 |
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