H-1B demand profile: Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-2042-00, employers filed 1,069 Labor Condition Applications for Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers positions across 273 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 98% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $44,533 at the floor to $989,280 at the ceiling, with an average of $99,803. 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 Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers. The top sponsor is The University of Texas at Austin with 71 petitions at an average offered wage of $83,171, followed by California Institute of Technology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Oregon State University. Geographically, TX leads with 259 filings (avg $118,391), followed by CA, MA, CO. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.