H-1B demand profile: Petroleum Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2171-00, employers filed 334 Labor Condition Applications for Petroleum Engineers positions across 137 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 95.2% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Petroleum 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 Petroleum Engineers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $66,360 at the floor to $468,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $142,266. 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 Petroleum Engineers. The top sponsor is Chevron Corporation with 23 petitions at an average offered wage of $181,287, followed by EOG Resources, Inc, Occidental Petroleum Corporation, Triad National Security, LLC. Geographically, TX leads with 232 filings (avg $149,628), followed by NM, WY, CA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Petroleum Engineers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.