H-1B demand profile: Remote Sensing Scientists and Technologists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-2099-01, employers filed 234 Labor Condition Applications for Remote Sensing Scientists and Technologists positions across 82 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 96.2% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Remote Sensing Scientists and Technologists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Remote Sensing Scientists and Technologists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $46,858 at the floor to $266,500 at the ceiling, with an average of $91,552. 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 Remote Sensing Scientists and Technologists. The top sponsor is California Institute of Technology/Jet Propulsion Laboratory with 42 petitions at an average offered wage of $115,112, followed by University of Maryland College Park, California Institute of Technology, Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii. Geographically, CA leads with 77 filings (avg $113,553), followed by MD, CO, TX. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Remote Sensing Scientists and Technologists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.