H-1B demand profile: Geographers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-3092-00, employers filed 261 Labor Condition Applications for Geographers positions across 93 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 93.5% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places 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 Geographers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $51,210 at the floor to $160,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $76,644. 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 Geographers. The top sponsor is University of Maryland College Park with 40 petitions at an average offered wage of $88,694, followed by University of Colorado, Michigan State University, Battelle Memorial Institute. Geographically, MD leads with 38 filings (avg $87,999), followed by CA, NY, CO. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Geographers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.