H-1B demand profile: Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2151-00, employers filed 437 Labor Condition Applications for Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers positions across 149 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 Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety 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 Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $58,032 at the floor to $300,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $114,404. 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 Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers. The top sponsor is Nevada Gold Mines LLC with 35 petitions at an average offered wage of $139,309, followed by Kennecott Utah Copper LLC, Freeport-McMoRan Morenci Inc, Srk Consulting (US), Inc. Geographically, AZ leads with 90 filings (avg $101,521), followed by CO, NV, UT. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.