H-1B demand profile: Automotive Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2141-02, employers filed 2,817 Labor Condition Applications for Automotive Engineers positions across 408 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97.8% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Automotive 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 Automotive Engineers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $47,445 at the floor to $297,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $116,367. 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 Automotive Engineers. The top sponsor is FORD MOTOR COMPANY with 331 petitions at an average offered wage of $116,299, followed by Lucid USA, Inc, General Motors, LER TechForce, LLC. Geographically, MI leads with 1,457 filings (avg $107,982), followed by CA, IN, OH. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Automotive Engineers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.