H-1B demand profile: Materials Scientists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-2032, employers filed 48 Labor Condition Applications for Materials Scientists positions across 13 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 95.8% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Materials 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 Materials Scientists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $52,000 at the floor to $172,640 at the ceiling, with an average of $77,414. 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 Materials Scientists. The top sponsor is University of Michigan with 27 petitions at an average offered wage of $69,604, followed by University of Southern Mississippi, Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, Florida A&M University. Geographically, MI leads with 27 filings (avg $69,604), followed by CA, MS, NV. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Materials Scientists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.