H-1B demand profile: Mechanical Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2141-00, employers filed 31,143 Labor Condition Applications for Mechanical Engineers positions across 6,372 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 89.6% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Mechanical 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 Mechanical Engineers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $42,266 at the floor to $996,304 at the ceiling, with an average of $108,329. 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 Mechanical Engineers. The top sponsor is Cummins Inc with 971 petitions at an average offered wage of $94,817, followed by TESLA, INC, Rivian Automotive, LLC, Apple Inc. Geographically, CA leads with 7,061 filings (avg $138,707), followed by MI, TX, IL. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Mechanical Engineers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.