H-1B demand profile: Chemists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-2031, employers filed 82 Labor Condition Applications for Chemists positions across 23 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97.6% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Chemists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Chemists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $46,467 at the floor to $155,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $78,386. 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 Chemists. The top sponsor is University of Michigan with 37 petitions at an average offered wage of $64,165, followed by Leland Stanford Jr Univ/SLAC National Accelerator Lab, Epic Pharma LLC, Clariant Corporation. Geographically, MI leads with 37 filings (avg $64,165), followed by CA, NY, DE. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Chemists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.