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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As of February 2024, there are 825 distinct job titles with current H1B workers in the United States, accross 1,536 distinct industries (by SOC code).

This page displays the top paying H1B Visa Jobs in the USA. Click any job title or company name to learn more about it, or use the dropdowns to sort and filter the data.


Top paying H1B Visa Jobs (2024)




The table below shows the top paying H1-B visa jobs for the year 2023 across all job categories. The top paying H1-B visa job in 2023 is Orthodontist, with an average salary of $240,057 across 33 jobs with 30 distinct hiring companies. The second top paying H1-B visa job in 2023 is Software Developers, Systems Software with an average salary of $217,423 across 1 jobs with 1 distinct hiring companies

Job Title Average Wage Number Of Jobs Hiring Companies
Clinical Nurse Specialists $79,818.22 12 Adventist Health System/sunbelt, Inc. , Barlow Respiratory Hospital , 9 more
Aerospace Engineering And Operations Technicians $79,772.78 9 Coulson Aviation (usa), Inc. , Hawker Pacific Aerospace, Inc. , 4 more
Commercial Pilots $79,245.63 33 Air Transport International , Air Transport International Llc , 22 more
Logisticians $79,231.43 689 3plus Logistics Co. , 888 Ttc Llc , 352 more
Speech-language Pathologists $78,846.70 291 360 Degree Customer Inc , A-1 Rehab & Recruitment Services, Inc. , 87 more
Commercial And Industrial Designers $78,737.80 587 Doordash, Inc. , Incode Technologies Inc. , 295 more
Talent Directors $78,631.00 3 146 Broadway Associates, Llc , Aussie All Star Productions Llc , 1 more
Cardiovascular Technologists And Technicians $78,630.67 3 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. , Peacehealth , 1 more
Insurance Sales Agents $78,618.77 8 American Services Group Llc , Amwins Group, Llc , 4 more
Accountants And Auditors $78,256.02 8,342 All Area Realty Services Inc. , Ameen Ali Cpa, P.c. , 2045 more
Chemists $78,163.46 1,706 California Bees, Inc. Dba Am Wax, Inc. , Clark Atlanta University , 723 more
Transportation Inspectors $77,854.33 11 Amspec Llc , Fernandes Maritime Consultants, Llc , 6 more
Compliance Officers $77,720.85 128 Doordash, Inc. , Abbvie Biotherapeutics Inc. , 100 more
Bioinformatics Scientists $77,456.98 1,250 Janssen Research & Development, Llc , 2seventy Bio, Inc , 427 more
Occupational Therapists $77,451.56 237 21st Century Home Health Services, Inc. , Ability Builders For Children, Llc , 108 more

Average Salary Over Time For all H1B visa jobs

In 2010, the salary for all H1B visa jobs was $76,011. It peaked in 2023 with an average salary of $104,257, and the recent trend shows the salary on an incline.


Number of H1B Visa Employees by Category (All Years)

As of May 2023, there has been a total of 5,450,552 H1-B visa workers across all job types. The most common job type is Computer and Mathematical Occupations with 3,559,698 Computer and Mathematical Occupations jobs on record over all years accounting for 65.31% of total H1-B jobs. The second most prevalent job is the Business and Financial Operations Occupations job with 498,397 Business and Financial Operations Occupations jobs on record over all years accounting for 9.14% of 's total H1-B jobs.