H-1B demand profile: Agricultural Inspectors. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 45-2011-00, employers filed 467 Labor Condition Applications for Agricultural Inspectors positions across 41 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 84.6% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Agricultural Inspectors among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Agricultural Inspectors. Offered wages on LCAs range from $27,664 at the floor to $227,857 at the ceiling, with an average of $45,502. 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 Agricultural Inspectors. The top sponsor is DECOFRUT INC with 230 petitions at an average offered wage of $49,423, followed by QIMA US LLC, Nova Produce Inspection Services LLC, Saniglobal Sanitation LLC. Geographically, NJ leads with 191 filings (avg $49,743), followed by CA, FL, PA. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Agricultural Inspectors actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.