H-1B demand profile: Soil and Plant Scientists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-1013-00, employers filed 1,598 Labor Condition Applications for Soil and Plant Scientists positions across 247 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 96.7% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Soil and Plant 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 Soil and Plant Scientists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $29,848 at the floor to $599,280 at the ceiling, with an average of $70,285. 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 Soil and Plant Scientists. The top sponsor is University of California, Davis with 83 petitions at an average offered wage of $74,433, followed by Texas A&M AgriLife Research, North Carolina State University, Michigan State University. Geographically, CA leads with 262 filings (avg $84,588), followed by TX, MO, NC. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Soil and Plant Scientists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.