H-1B demand profile: Physicists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-2012-00, employers filed 3,954 Labor Condition Applications for Physicists positions across 454 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 77.2% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Physicists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Physicists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $36,317 at the floor to $804,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $98,252. 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 Physicists. The top sponsor is Brookhaven National Laboratory with 192 petitions at an average offered wage of $120,276, followed by Triad National Security, LLC, Fermi Research Alliance, LLC, UT-BATTELLE, LLC (OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY). Geographically, CA leads with 666 filings (avg $114,938), followed by IL, NY, MA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Physicists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.