H-1B demand profile: Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 53-2011-00, employers filed 976 Labor Condition Applications for Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers positions across 64 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 87.8% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight 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 Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers. Offered wages on LCAs range from $46,675 at the floor to $487,240 at the ceiling, with an average of $205,082. 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 Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers. The top sponsor is SkyWest Airlines with 194 petitions at an average offered wage of $234,093, followed by Spirit Airlines, Frontier Airlines, Atlas Air, Inc. Geographically, FL leads with 245 filings (avg $183,740), followed by IL, GA, CO. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.