H-1B demand profile: Environmental Restoration Planners. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-2041-02, employers filed 15 Labor Condition Applications for Environmental Restoration Planners positions across 11 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 100% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Environmental Restoration Planners among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Environmental Restoration Planners. Offered wages on LCAs range from $55,000 at the floor to $130,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $82,091. 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 Environmental Restoration Planners. The top sponsor is The Nature Conservancy with 2 petitions at an average offered wage of $70,000, followed by The University of Texas at Austin, University of California, Santa Cruz, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. Geographically, CA leads with 4 filings (avg $99,787), followed by MD, AZ, TX. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Environmental Restoration Planners actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.