H-1B demand profile: Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-1023-00, employers filed 204 Labor Condition Applications for Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists positions across 79 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97.5% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $38,245 at the floor to $139,395 at the ceiling, with an average of $70,935. 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 Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists. The top sponsor is University of Washington with 11 petitions at an average offered wage of $70,551, followed by Oregon State University, Research Foundation for the State University of New York, University of California, Santa Cruz. Geographically, CA leads with 32 filings (avg $85,797), followed by NY, WA, FL. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.