H-1B demand profile: Food Science Technicians. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-4013-00, employers filed 53 Labor Condition Applications for Food Science Technicians positions across 26 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 83% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Food Science Technicians among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Food Science Technicians. Offered wages on LCAs range from $35,360 at the floor to $130,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $46,109. 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 Food Science Technicians. The top sponsor is Wine by Joe, LLC with 16 petitions at an average offered wage of $39,130, followed by Stoller Vineyards, Inc, Ocean Star International, Inc, Boisset Family Estates. Geographically, OR leads with 31 filings (avg $40,030), followed by CA, UT, WA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Food Science Technicians actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.