H-1B demand profile: Food Scientists and Technologists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-1012-00, employers filed 1,493 Labor Condition Applications for Food Scientists and Technologists positions across 602 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 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 $37,565 at the floor to $980,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $92,046. 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 Impossible Foods Inc with 36 petitions at an average offered wage of $105,369, followed by Kerry Inc, Archer Daniels Midland Company, David Oppenheimer & Company I, LLC. Geographically, CA leads with 298 filings (avg $98,062), followed by IL, NJ, NY. 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.