H-1B demand profile: Physical Scientists, All Other. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-2099, employers filed 12 Labor Condition Applications for Physical Scientists, All Other positions across 7 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 Physical Scientists, All Other among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Physical Scientists, All Other. Offered wages on LCAs range from $30,000 at the floor to $130,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $78,142. 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 Physical Scientists, All Other. The top sponsor is Leland Stanford Jr Univ/SLAC National Accelerator Lab with 5 petitions at an average offered wage of $96,617, followed by Stanford University/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Florida A&M University, Howard University. Geographically, CA leads with 7 filings (avg $90,902), followed by DC, FL, LA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Physical Scientists, All Other actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.