H-1B demand profile: Marine Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2121-01, employers filed 4 Labor Condition Applications for Marine Engineers positions across 4 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 100% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Marine 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 Marine Engineers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $82,700 at the floor to $93,392 at the ceiling, with an average of $90,583. 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. The top sponsor is American Bureau of Shipping with 1 petitions at an average offered wage of $92,990, followed by Ice Floe, LLC, Subsea 7 US LLC, University of California, San Diego. Geographically, TX leads with 2 filings (avg $93,191), followed by CA, WA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Marine Engineers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.