H-1B demand profile: Materials Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2131-00, employers filed 6,108 Labor Condition Applications for Materials Engineers positions across 953 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 98.7% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Materials 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 Materials Engineers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $46,862 at the floor to $283,500 at the ceiling, with an average of $112,602. 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 Materials Engineers. The top sponsor is Intel Corporation with 2,648 petitions at an average offered wage of $109,470, followed by Lam Research Corporation, Asm America Inc, Applied Materials, Inc. Geographically, OR leads with 2,170 filings (avg $111,570), followed by CA, AZ, TX. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Materials Engineers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.