H-1B demand profile: Sales Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 41-9031-00, employers filed 7,723 Labor Condition Applications for Sales Engineers positions across 2,024 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 92.5% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Sales Engineers among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Sales Engineers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $45,000 at the floor to $900,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $143,668. 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 Sales Engineers. The top sponsor is Cisco Systems, Inc with 313 petitions at an average offered wage of $133,875, followed by Google LLC, ServiceNow, Inc, Microsoft Corporation. Geographically, CA leads with 2,574 filings (avg $157,974), followed by TX, NY, WA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Sales Engineers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.