H-1B demand profile: Remote Sensing Technicians. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 19-4099-03, employers filed 9 Labor Condition Applications for Remote Sensing Technicians positions across 5 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 77.8% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Remote Sensing 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 Remote Sensing Technicians. Offered wages on LCAs range from $43,742 at the floor to $77,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $50,882. 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 Remote Sensing Technicians. The top sponsor is Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) with 3 petitions at an average offered wage of $62,333, followed by Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, NV5 Geospatial, Inc, Digital Mapping Inc. Geographically, CA leads with 4 filings (avg $58,799), followed by OR, NE. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Remote Sensing Technicians actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.