H-1B demand profile: Fuel Cell Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2141-01, employers filed 119 Labor Condition Applications for Fuel Cell Engineers positions across 50 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97.5% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Fuel Cell 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 Fuel Cell Engineers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $64,251 at the floor to $214,340 at the ceiling, with an average of $120,468. 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 Fuel Cell Engineers. The top sponsor is Lyten Inc with 12 petitions at an average offered wage of $137,488, followed by Tesla, Inc, Bloom Energy Corporation, FuelCell Energy Inc. Geographically, CA leads with 52 filings (avg $139,767), followed by MI, MA, IL. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Fuel Cell Engineers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.