H-1B demand profile: Political Scientists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-3094-00, employers filed 367 Labor Condition Applications for Political Scientists positions across 163 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 95.9% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Political Scientists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Political Scientists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $46,696 at the floor to $720,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $105,122. 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 Political Scientists. The top sponsor is The Leland Stanford, Jr University with 16 petitions at an average offered wage of $133,996, followed by The Trustees of Princeton University, Georgetown University, Columbia University. Geographically, DC leads with 113 filings (avg $123,072), followed by CA, NY, MA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Political Scientists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.