H-1B demand profile: Hydrologists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-2043-00, employers filed 332 Labor Condition Applications for Hydrologists positions across 108 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97.3% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Hydrologists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Hydrologists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $46,176 at the floor to $137,922 at the ceiling, with an average of $77,854. 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 Hydrologists. The top sponsor is SRK CONSULTING (US), INC with 13 petitions at an average offered wage of $86,492, followed by The Trustees of Princeton University, University of Colorado, Texas A&M AgriLife Research. Geographically, TX leads with 40 filings (avg $65,138), followed by CA, CO, AZ. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Hydrologists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.