H-1B demand profile: Molecular and Cellular Biologists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-1029-02, employers filed 6,638 Labor Condition Applications for Molecular and Cellular Biologists positions across 917 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 79.9% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Molecular and Cellular 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 Molecular and Cellular Biologists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $33,509 at the floor to $385,700 at the ceiling, with an average of $83,102. 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 Molecular and Cellular Biologists. The top sponsor is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute with 306 petitions at an average offered wage of $75,507, followed by The Leland Stanford, Jr University, National Institutes of Health, HHS, Yale University. Geographically, CA leads with 1,524 filings (avg $92,927), followed by MA, MD, TX. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Molecular and Cellular Biologists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.