H-1B demand profile: Industrial Ecologists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-2041-03, employers filed 41 Labor Condition Applications for Industrial Ecologists positions across 31 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 Industrial Ecologists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Industrial Ecologists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $39,000 at the floor to $133,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $75,812. 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 Industrial Ecologists. The top sponsor is Oregon State University with 6 petitions at an average offered wage of $57,992, followed by Re-Nuble, Inc, Swift Transportation Services, LLC, The Curators of the University of Missouri. Geographically, OR leads with 6 filings (avg $57,992), followed by MA, NY, TX. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Industrial Ecologists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.