H-1B demand profile: Photonics Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 17-2199-07, employers filed 862 Labor Condition Applications for Photonics Engineers positions across 194 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97.8% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Photonics 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 Photonics Engineers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $52,229 at the floor to $350,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $136,472. 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 Photonics Engineers. The top sponsor is Apple Inc with 100 petitions at an average offered wage of $162,918, followed by Asml US, LP, Meta Platforms, Inc, Asml US, LLC. Geographically, CA leads with 456 filings (avg $150,689), followed by CT, NY, WA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Photonics Engineers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.