H-1B demand profile: Food Scientists and Technologists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-1012, employers filed 18 Labor Condition Applications for Food Scientists and Technologists positions across 6 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 Food Scientists and Technologists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Food Scientists and Technologists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $37,665 at the floor to $140,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $69,669. 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 Food Scientists and Technologists. The top sponsor is MSI Express, Inc with 10 petitions at an average offered wage of $69,212, followed by Texas A&m Agrilife Research, Hissho International, LLC, Barry Callebaut USA LLC. Geographically, IL leads with 5 filings (avg $66,781), followed by TX, IN, NC. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Food Scientists and Technologists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.