H-1B demand profile: Transportation Inspectors. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 53-6051-00, employers filed 34 Labor Condition Applications for Transportation Inspectors positions across 17 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 88.2% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Transportation 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 Transportation Inspectors. Offered wages on LCAs range from $41,205 at the floor to $137,000 at the ceiling, with an average of $77,848. 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 Transportation Inspectors. The top sponsor is AmSpec LLC with 7 petitions at an average offered wage of $61,782, followed by FMC International LLC, MARITECH COMMERCIAL, INC, Marine Commercial LLC. Geographically, LA leads with 15 filings (avg $87,408), followed by TX, FL, NY. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Transportation Inspectors actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.