We now have Quarter 4 H1B visa FY 2023 data and Quarter 4 PERM visa FY 2023 data and Quarter 4 H2A visa FY 2023 data.
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Minnesota Foreign Labor Visa Stats (All Years)

Total Visas	% of all Visas	Average Wage	Visa Type
95,542	92.35%	$76,975	H-1B
5,315	5.14%	$390,756	PERM
2,055	1.99%	$28,936	H-2A
544	0.53%	$86,285	E-3 Australian

As of May 2023, Minnesota has seen a total of 103,456 visa workers across all visa types. The most common visa class in Minnesota is the H-1B visa with 95,542 H-1B visas on record over all years accounting for 92.35% of Minnesota's total visas. The second most prevalent visa is the PERM visa with 5,315 PERM visas on record over all years accounting for 5.14% of Minnesota's total visas.

Top Occupations in Minnesota (All Years)

Occupation	# of Jobs	Avg Wage	Approval %
Commercial and Industrial Designers	561	$46,275	89.47%
Information Technology Project Managers	524	$86,330	94.41%
Family and General Practitioners	479	$140,688	92.29%
Statisticians	423	$73,352	89.05%
Electronics Engineers, Except Computer	421	$80,078	88.82%
Information Security Analysts	399	$86,930	85.99%
Financial Analysts	389	$66,554	93.51%
Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education	349	$44,721	87.91%
Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists	345	$51,507	91.51%
Biomedical Engineers	329	$73,822	87.97%

Occupation	# of Jobs	Avg Wage	Approval %

Occupation	# of Jobs	Avg Wage	Approval %
Family and General Practitioners	36	$129,515	92.31%
Agricultural Equipment Operators	35	$44,718	102.94%
Combined Food Preparation and Serving Workers, Including Fast Food	32	$21,445	96.97%
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers	31	$56,245	96.88%
Network and Computer Systems Administrators	30	$82,627	103.45%
Home Health Aides	30	$26,190	107.14%
Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals	27	$27,661	96.43%
Information Security Analysts	25	$90,932	96.15%
Biomedical Engineers	25	$93,761	104.17%
Civil Engineers	23	$67,740	95.83%

Minnesota Employees Over Time

Minnesota has been in the H1B Visa program since 2011 where 4,846 employees were hired. Minnesota peaked in 2018 with 9,407 employees, and has since been on a decline with the most recent number of employees being 6,096 in 2023.

Top Countries with Workers in Minnesota From PERM Program (All Years)

Country	# of Jobs	Avg Wage	Approval %
Slovenia	2	$65,447	40.00%
Bahamas	2	$55,822	40.00%
Tajikistan	2	$23,816	40.00%
Albania	2	$54,746	40.00%
Tunisia	2	$59,023	50.00%
Nicaragua	2	$39,557	50.00%
Cambodia	2	$22,995	50.00%
Trinidad And Tobago	2	$67,070	50.00%
Czech Republic	2	$90,709	50.00%
Moldova	2	$69,961	50.00%

Top Hiring Companies in Minnesota (All Years)

Company	# of Jobs	Avg Wage	Approval %
Tata Consultancy Services Limited	6,293	$63,410	99.42%
Infosys Limited	4,077	$69,516	99.54%
Mayo Clinic	3,551	$72,818	96.02%
Accenture Llp	3,000	$77,305	98.17%
Wipro Limited	2,668	$68,337	91.94%
University Of Minnesota	2,578	$50,372	89.76%
Cognizant Technology Solutions Us Corp	2,342	$88,337	97.79%
Target Enterprise Inc	1,626	$107,327	91.45%
Optum Services Inc	1,427	$101,800	97.01%
Deloitte Consulting Llp	1,180	$78,417	84.95%

Company	# of Jobs	Avg Wage	Approval %

Company	# of Jobs	Avg Wage	Approval %
Optum Services Inc	430	$92,633	67.82%
Best Buy Co Inc	201	$111,098	46.74%
Presbyterian Homes And Services	159	$30,782	40.56%
Ameriprise Financial Inc	141	$106,122	38.52%
Group Health Plan Inc	115	$1,729,654	37.22%
Turkey Valley Farms Inc	95	$23,939	38.00%
Oracle America Inc	69	$90,305	32.39%
General Mills Inc	55	$120,907	27.36%
Titan Data Group Inc	53	$104,549	31.36%
Veritas Technologies Llc	50	$85,026	29.94%

Top Industries in Minnesota (All Years)

Industry	# of Jobs	Avg Wage	Approval %
Direct Health And Medical Insurance Carriers	364	$96,564	96.04%
All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing	346	$88,037	92.51%
Temporary Help Services	312	$85,914	86.91%
Offices Of Physicians Except Mental Health Specialists	297	$138,450	90.27%
All Other Miscellaneous Electrical Equipment And Component Manufacturing	295	$61,595	94.86%
Offices Of Physicians	253	$130,788	81.88%
Computing Infrastructure Providers Data Processing Web Hosting And Related Services	235	$88,312	82.46%
Basic Chemical Manufacturing	233	$94,371	85.98%
Breakfast Cereal Manufacturing	220	$89,736	86.27%
All Other Professional Scientific And Technical Services	216	$81,597	88.52%

Industry	# of Jobs	Avg Wage	Approval %
Greenhouse Nursery And Floriculture Production	18	$32,055	100.00%
Corn Farming	17	$29,027	94.44%
Other Vegetable Except Potato And Melon Farming	17	$26,891	100.00%
Dual Purpose Cattle Ranching And Farming	15	$31,516	88.24%
Beef Cattle Ranching And Farming	14	$27,483	93.33%
Soybean Farming	13	$30,885	92.86%
Dairy Cattle And Milk Production	10	$28,737	76.92%
Floriculture Production	9	$26,199	90.00%
Soil Preparation Planting And Cultivating	9	$31,859	100.00%
All Other Personal Services	8	$30,051	88.89%

Industry	# of Jobs	Avg Wage	Approval %
Nursery And Tree Production	28	$29,743	28.57%
Offices Of Lawyers	25	$64,790	27.47%
Educational Support Services	25	$91,977	29.41%
Medical Dental And Hospital Equipment And Supplies Merchant Wholesalers	23	$99,212	30.26%
All Other Miscellaneous Ambulatory Health Care Services	23	$93,266	35.94%
General Line Grocery Merchant Wholesalers	21	$59,996	33.33%
Nail Salons	19	$28,379	31.67%
Other Chemical And Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers	16	$93,518	28.07%
Relay And Industrial Control Manufacturing	16	$87,567	28.57%
General Freight Trucking Long Distance Truckload	15	$59,098	27.78%

Minnesota Wage Comparison to Other States (All Years)

The chart below compares The average wage in Minnesota to that of the top 9 states with the highest overall average H1-B wage. The average wage in Minnesota over all years is $76,975. The state with the highest average wage of H1-B workers for all states is CA with an average wage of $100,819.