H-1B demand profile: Nuclear Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2161-00, employers filed 232 Labor Condition Applications for Nuclear Engineers positions across 47 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 98.3% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Nuclear 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 Nuclear Engineers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $50,000 at the floor to $244,061 at the ceiling, with an average of $112,064. 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 Nuclear Engineers. The top sponsor is BATTELLE ENERGY ALLIANCE, LLC with 49 petitions at an average offered wage of $129,098, followed by Ut-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), UChicago Argonne LLC, Triad National Security, LLC. Geographically, ID leads with 43 filings (avg $127,182), followed by TN, IL, NM. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Nuclear Engineers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.