H-1B demand profile: Manufacturing Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2199-04, employers filed 115 Labor Condition Applications for Manufacturing Engineers positions across 69 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 Manufacturing 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 Manufacturing Engineers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $40,518 at the floor to $195,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $92,839. 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 Manufacturing Engineers. The top sponsor is CEPHEID with 4 petitions at an average offered wage of $126,073, followed by Covidien LP, Rivian Automotive, LLC, The Fountain Group, LLC. Geographically, CA leads with 45 filings (avg $107,629), followed by IN, NC, TN. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Manufacturing Engineers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.