H-1B demand profile: Microbiologists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-1022-00, employers filed 1,501 Labor Condition Applications for Microbiologists positions across 403 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 96.4% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Microbiologists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Microbiologists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $35,006 at the floor to $247,272 at the ceiling, with an average of $75,848. 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 Microbiologists. The top sponsor is Albert Einstein College of Medicine with 51 petitions at an average offered wage of $69,077, followed by University of Wisconsin System, Emory University, The Pennsylvania State University. Geographically, CA leads with 184 filings (avg $99,633), followed by NY, GA, MA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Microbiologists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.