H-1B demand profile: Biochemists and Biophysicists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-1021-00, employers filed 11,044 Labor Condition Applications for Biochemists and Biophysicists positions across 1,022 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 79.3% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Biochemists and Biophysicists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Biochemists and Biophysicists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $33,446 at the floor to $960,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $83,491. 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 Biochemists and Biophysicists. The top sponsor is University of California, San Francisco with 646 petitions at an average offered wage of $79,151, followed by ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL, Duke University, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO. Geographically, CA leads with 2,557 filings (avg $92,378), followed by MA, TX, TN. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Biochemists and Biophysicists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.