H-1B demand profile: Validation Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2199-02, employers filed 163 Labor Condition Applications for Validation Engineers positions across 74 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 100% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Validation 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 Validation Engineers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $38,520 at the floor to $155,854 at the ceiling, with an average of $92,572. 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 Validation Engineers. The top sponsor is UNICON PHARMA INC with 15 petitions at an average offered wage of $90,638, followed by Covidien LP, The Veritas Healthcare Solutions LLC, Validation Associates LLC. Geographically, CA leads with 36 filings (avg $100,211), followed by MA, MI, PA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Validation Engineers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.