H-1B demand profile: Airfield Operations Specialists. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 53-2022-00, employers filed 12 Labor Condition Applications for Airfield Operations Specialists positions across 6 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 75% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Airfield Operations Specialists among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Airfield Operations Specialists. Offered wages on LCAs range from $37,814 at the floor to $105,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $66,649. 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 Airfield Operations Specialists. The top sponsor is City of Midland with 3 petitions at an average offered wage of $56,932, followed by Washington International Flight Academy, J & M Alaska Air Tours, Inc, Washington International Flight Academy LLC. Geographically, MD leads with 5 filings (avg $76,436), followed by TX, AK, FL. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Airfield Operations Specialists actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.