H-1B demand profile: Chemists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-2031-00, employers filed 7,017 Labor Condition Applications for Chemists positions across 1,559 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 87.6% 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 $25,126 at the floor to $889,320 at the ceiling, with an average of $91,960. 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 Novitium Pharma LLC with 85 petitions at an average offered wage of $82,481, followed by ELI LILLY AND COMPANY, Amgen Inc, Emory University. Geographically, NJ leads with 1,187 filings (avg $90,794), followed by CA, NY, MA. 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.