H-1B demand profile: Environmental Economists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-3011-01, employers filed 233 Labor Condition Applications for Environmental Economists positions across 97 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97.9% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Environmental Economists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Environmental Economists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $50,000 at the floor to $846,312 at the ceiling, with an average of $105,120. 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 Environmental Economists. The top sponsor is Columbia University with 12 petitions at an average offered wage of $80,865, followed by Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, ICF Resources, LLC, The Brattle Group. Geographically, NY leads with 35 filings (avg $111,286), followed by CA, DC, IL. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Environmental Economists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.