Biological Technicians
SOC Code: 19-4021.00
The DOL disclosure extract lists 3,461 H-1B LCA filings for Biological Technicians from 563 employer filers, with a 97.1% DOL certification rate and an average listed offered wage of $58,875. The highest-volume worksite state is NY with 446 filings. The highest-volume filer is Emory University. These filings are not USCIS petition approvals or visa outcomes.
LCA filing profile: Biological Technicians. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-4021.00, the extract lists 3,461 Labor Condition Application filings from 563 distinct employer filers. The DOL certified 97.1% of those filings, a DOL record status for the wage and working-condition attestations. Filing volume does not establish that a role qualifies for H-1B, that a USCIS petition was filed or approved, or that anyone was hired.
Where this occupation sits in the corpus. By disclosed LCA volume, Biological Technicians ranks #73 of 1,219 occupational codes in the current PlainVisa dataset, placing it in the top 7% by filings. This is a corpus-relative rank computed from the same FY2023–FY2026 DOL disclosure snapshot as this profile, not a measure of job quality, worker demand, or visa approval odds.
Where LCA filings are recorded for Biological Technicians. The highest-volume employer filer is Emory University with 116 filings at an average listed offered wage of $51,232, followed by University of Pittsburgh, Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories Professional Scientific Services, LLC, Baylor College of Medicine. Geographically, NY leads with 446 filings (average listed wage $64,984), followed by CA, PA, MA. These distributions describe DOL filing records only; they do not measure labor-market demand, confirmed sponsorship, hiring, or visa outcomes.
Top Employers for Biological Technicians
Employer filers with the most listed LCAs for this occupation
| Employer | LCA filings | Avg. Salary |
|---|---|---|
| Emory University | 116 | $51,232 |
| University of Pittsburgh | 111 | $45,142 |
| Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories Professional Scientific Services, LLC | 91 | $55,837 |
| Baylor College of Medicine | 87 | $52,724 |
| University of California, San Diego | 86 | $78,661 |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | 73 | $68,329 |
| Stowers Institute for Medical Research | 69 | $56,229 |
| Mayo Clinic | 67 | $65,321 |
| The Rockefeller University | 57 | $64,068 |
| The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | 53 | $48,176 |
| Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center | 52 | $56,265 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | 52 | $70,951 |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | 51 | $61,932 |
| New York University | 51 | $80,839 |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | 50 | $86,933 |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine | 41 | $57,170 |
| Duke University | 41 | $57,042 |
| The University of Chicago | 41 | $52,640 |
| Temple University--A Commonwealth University | 40 | $48,919 |
| University of Wisconsin System | 37 | $50,605 |
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