Physicists
SOC Code: 19-2012.00
The DOL disclosure extract lists 4,567 H-1B LCA filings for Physicists from 460 employer filers, with a 97.1% DOL certification rate and an average listed offered wage of $99,625. The highest-volume worksite state is CA with 746 filings. The highest-volume filer is Brookhaven National Laboratory. These filings are not USCIS petition approvals or visa outcomes.
LCA filing profile: Physicists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-2012.00, the extract lists 4,567 Labor Condition Application filings from 460 distinct employer filers. The DOL certified 97.1% of those filings, a DOL record status for the wage and working-condition attestations. Filing volume does not establish that a role qualifies for H-1B, that a USCIS petition was filed or approved, or that anyone was hired.
Where this occupation sits in the corpus. By disclosed LCA volume, Physicists ranks #61 of 1,219 occupational codes in the current PlainVisa dataset, placing it in the top 6% by filings. This is a corpus-relative rank computed from the same FY2023–FY2026 DOL disclosure snapshot as this profile, not a measure of job quality, worker demand, or visa approval odds.
Where LCA filings are recorded for Physicists. The highest-volume employer filer is Brookhaven National Laboratory with 316 filings at an average listed offered wage of $119,632, followed by Triad National Security, LLC, Fermi Research Alliance, LLC, Ut-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge National Laboratory). Geographically, CA leads with 746 filings (average listed wage $116,808), followed by NY, IL, MA. These distributions describe DOL filing records only; they do not measure labor-market demand, confirmed sponsorship, hiring, or visa outcomes.
Top Employers for Physicists
Employer filers with the most listed LCAs for this occupation
| Employer | LCA filings | Avg. Salary |
|---|---|---|
| Brookhaven National Laboratory | 316 | $119,632 |
| Triad National Security, LLC | 183 | $122,852 |
| Fermi Research Alliance, LLC | 139 | $75,590 |
| Ut-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) | 131 | $120,380 |
| University of Maryland College Park | 118 | $75,956 |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | 115 | $94,736 |
| UChicago Argonne LLC | 111 | $78,916 |
| Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC | 105 | $85,127 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 95 | $80,715 |
| Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC | 94 | $165,178 |
| Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | 83 | $124,438 |
| California Institute of Technology | 70 | $86,797 |
| Harvard University | 68 | $72,091 |
| The Leland Stanford, Jr University | 65 | $89,431 |
| Michigan State University | 63 | $89,456 |
| University of California, Berkeley | 60 | $76,673 |
| Columbia University | 51 | $83,147 |
| University of Illinois | 48 | $64,865 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | 47 | $65,281 |
| Cornell University | 43 | $78,655 |
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