H-1B demand profile: Geneticists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-1029-03, employers filed 527 Labor Condition Applications for Geneticists positions across 136 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 96.8% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Geneticists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Geneticists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $40,352 at the floor to $757,440 at the ceiling, with an average of $88,644. 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 Geneticists. The top sponsor is National Institutes of Health, HHS with 63 petitions at an average offered wage of $103,379, followed by Harvard University, The Leland Stanford, Jr University, University of Michigan. Geographically, MA leads with 97 filings (avg $89,294), followed by CA, MD, NY. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Geneticists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.