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
Audiologists $77,415.71 11 Bexar County Hospital District , East Coast Audiology And Physical Therapy, Pllc , 8 more
Environmental Economists $77,376.30 44 Aepnus Technology Inc. , Alliance For Sustainable Energy, Llc , 32 more
Physicists $76,814.69 874 Lahey Clinic Hospital, Inc. , Accelerated Medical Physics Service Llc , 235 more
Food Scientists And Technologists $76,767.57 356 E & J Gallo Winery , 4 Brothers Blended Beer Co, Llc. , 239 more
Acute Care Nurses $76,642.77 8 Baycare Health System, Inc. , Emory Healthcare, Inc. , 5 more
Genetic Counselors $76,034.70 31 Banner University Medical Group , Baptist Health South Florida, Inc. , 23 more
Editors $75,914.34 79 American Physical Society , Anonymous Content Llc , 62 more
Sustainability Specialists $75,914.29 143 281 Solutions, Inc. , 3r, Llc , 84 more
Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, And Gaugers $75,712.00 1 Pipeline Conditioning, Llc
Financial Specialists, All Other $75,589.64 130 All Prime Investment, Inc. , Altfest Personal Wealth Management , 87 more
Transportation Planners $75,230.24 99 Aecom Technical Services Inc , Alliance For Sustainable Energy, Llc , 37 more
Accountants $74,864.25 4 Cognizance Technologies Llc , King Real Estate , 2 more
Urban And Regional Planners $74,812.35 171 4leaf, Inc. , Aecom Technical Services Inc , 128 more
Avionics Technicians $74,588.80 1 Job Aire Group, Inc.
Climate Change Analysts $74,339.18 66 Battelle Memorial Institute , Cdp North America Inc. , 21 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.