H-1B demand profile: Manufacturing Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2112-03, employers filed 5,963 Labor Condition Applications for Manufacturing Engineers positions across 1,589 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97.6% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Manufacturing 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 Manufacturing Engineers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $41,413 at the floor to $841,338 at the ceiling, with an average of $111,216. 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 Manufacturing Engineers. The top sponsor is TESLA, INC with 1,133 petitions at an average offered wage of $133,985, followed by Google LLC, Intellectt Inc, Ford Motor Company. Geographically, CA leads with 1,579 filings (avg $134,961), followed by TX, MI, MA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Manufacturing Engineers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.