H-1B demand profile: Materials Scientists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-2032-00, employers filed 2,474 Labor Condition Applications for Materials Scientists positions across 549 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97% 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 $39,600 at the floor to $295,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $89,630. 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 UT-BATTELLE, LLC (OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY) with 161 petitions at an average offered wage of $100,534, followed by Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Battelle Memorial Institute, Brookhaven National Laboratory. Geographically, CA leads with 379 filings (avg $110,381), followed by TX, TN, NY. 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.