H-1B demand profile: Industrial Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2112-00, employers filed 16,945 Labor Condition Applications for Industrial Engineers positions across 4,091 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 90.1% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Industrial 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 Industrial Engineers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $41,413 at the floor to $900,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $110,940. 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 Industrial Engineers. The top sponsor is TESLA, INC with 836 petitions at an average offered wage of $131,053, followed by Apple Inc, Amazon.com Services LLC, Rivian Automotive, LLC. Geographically, CA leads with 3,732 filings (avg $135,261), followed by TX, MI, IL. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Industrial Engineers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.