H-1B demand profile: Human Factors Engineers and Ergonomists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2112-01, employers filed 1,037 Labor Condition Applications for Human Factors Engineers and Ergonomists positions across 287 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 98.6% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Human Factors Engineers and Ergonomists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Human Factors Engineers and Ergonomists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $56,294 at the floor to $550,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $133,574. 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 Human Factors Engineers and Ergonomists. The top sponsor is ServiceNow, Inc with 109 petitions at an average offered wage of $108,240, followed by Cisco Systems, Inc, Meta Platforms, Inc, Google LLC. Geographically, CA leads with 474 filings (avg $147,384), followed by WA, NY, MA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Human Factors Engineers and Ergonomists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.