H-1B demand profile: Animal Scientists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-1011-00, employers filed 462 Labor Condition Applications for Animal Scientists positions across 166 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 95.9% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Animal Scientists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Animal Scientists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $34,029 at the floor to $247,667 at the ceiling, with an average of $71,088. 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 Animal Scientists. The top sponsor is Vytelle, LLC with 27 petitions at an average offered wage of $62,156, followed by Zoetis, Inc, Mississippi State University, Texas A&M AgriLife Research. Geographically, TX leads with 59 filings (avg $64,977), followed by MN, CO, OK. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Animal Scientists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.