H-1B demand profile: Biological Technicians. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-4021-00, employers filed 3,087 Labor Condition Applications for Biological Technicians positions across 546 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 97% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Biological 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 Biological Technicians. Offered wages on LCAs range from $28,280 at the floor to $955,091 at the ceiling, with an average of $58,659. 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 Biological Technicians. The top sponsor is Emory University with 104 petitions at an average offered wage of $51,344, followed by University of Pittsburgh, Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories Professional Scientific Services, LLC, Baylor College of Medicine. Geographically, NY leads with 396 filings (avg $65,271), followed by CA, PA, MA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Biological Technicians actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.