H-1B demand profile: Conservation Scientists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-1031-00, employers filed 104 Labor Condition Applications for Conservation Scientists positions across 58 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97.1% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Conservation Scientists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Conservation Scientists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $22,256 at the floor to $126,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $72,976. 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 Conservation Scientists. The top sponsor is WORLD WILDLIFE FUND US with 6 petitions at an average offered wage of $102,433, followed by Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, The Nature Conservancy, Washington State University. Geographically, CA leads with 10 filings (avg $78,286), followed by NE, TX, VA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Conservation Scientists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.