H-1B demand profile: Marine Engineers and Naval Architects. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2121-00, employers filed 186 Labor Condition Applications for Marine Engineers and Naval Architects positions across 83 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97.3% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Marine Engineers and Naval Architects among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Marine Engineers and Naval Architects. Offered wages on LCAs range from $41,538 at the floor to $278,067 at the ceiling, with an average of $105,078. 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 Marine Engineers and Naval Architects. The top sponsor is American Bureau of Shipping with 17 petitions at an average offered wage of $117,735, followed by TAI Engineers LLC, Cabras Marine Corporation, Carnival Corporation. Geographically, TX leads with 78 filings (avg $110,031), followed by FL, LA, CA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Marine Engineers and Naval Architects actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.