H-1B demand profile: Transportation Planners. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-3099-01, employers filed 431 Labor Condition Applications for Transportation Planners positions across 102 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 96.8% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Transportation Planners among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Transportation Planners. Offered wages on LCAs range from $51,022 at the floor to $206,502 at the ceiling, with an average of $90,234. 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 Transportation Planners. The top sponsor is Cambridge Systematics, Inc with 59 petitions at an average offered wage of $91,723, followed by WSP USA Inc, AECOM Technical Services Inc, Fehr & Peers. Geographically, CA leads with 94 filings (avg $96,617), followed by TX, FL, NY. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Transportation Planners actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.