Manufacturing Engineers
SOC Code: 17-2112.03
The DOL disclosure extract lists 6,802 H-1B LCA filings for Manufacturing Engineers from 1,635 employer filers, with a 97.6% DOL certification rate and an average listed offered wage of $113,114. The highest-volume worksite state is CA with 1,830 filings. The highest-volume filer is Tesla, INC.. These filings are not USCIS petition approvals or visa outcomes.
LCA filing profile: Manufacturing Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2112.03, the extract lists 6,802 Labor Condition Application filings from 1,635 distinct employer filers. The DOL certified 97.6% 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, Manufacturing Engineers ranks #45 of 1,219 occupational codes in the current PlainVisa dataset, placing it in the top 5% 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 Manufacturing Engineers. The highest-volume employer filer is Tesla, INC. with 1,353 filings at an average listed offered wage of $134,803, followed by Google LLC, Intellectt Inc, Ford Motor Company. Geographically, CA leads with 1,830 filings (average listed wage $137,323), followed by TX, MI, MA. These distributions describe DOL filing records only; they do not measure labor-market demand, confirmed sponsorship, hiring, or visa outcomes.
Top Employers for Manufacturing Engineers
Employer filers with the most listed LCAs for this occupation
| Employer | LCA filings | Avg. Salary |
|---|---|---|
| Tesla, INC. | 1,353 | $134,803 |
| Google LLC | 106 | $168,695 |
| Intellectt Inc | 86 | $98,436 |
| Ford Motor Company | 83 | $102,248 |
| Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. | 77 | $136,504 |
| Rivian Automotive, LLC | 75 | $130,708 |
| Lucid USA, Inc. | 74 | $117,672 |
| Medtronic, Inc. | 71 | $110,071 |
| Apple Inc. | 68 | $149,012 |
| Zimmer, Inc. | 64 | $97,163 |
| Cepheid | 63 | $134,142 |
| L&t Technology Services Limited | 61 | $88,206 |
| VAStek Inc. | 59 | $90,048 |
| Fusion Life Sciences Technologies LLC | 57 | $97,045 |
| Eli Lilly and Company | 47 | $116,263 |
| Micron Technology, Inc. | 43 | $109,833 |
| Applied Materials, Inc | 42 | $118,394 |
| Amgen Inc. | 40 | $121,663 |
| General Motors | 39 | $125,573 |
| First Solar, Inc. | 38 | $82,714 |
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