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
Paralegals And Legal Assistants $60,514.72 146 Atash Law Pc , B.j. Kang Law, Pc , 110 more
Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary $60,494.20 173 Adler University , Arizona State University , 132 more
Buyers And Purchasing Agents, Farm Products $60,401.55 12 Alltech Inc , Aurora International Corporation , 10 more
Philosophy And Religion Teachers, Postsecondary $60,392.47 144 Administrators Of The Tulane Educational Fund , Alfred University , 102 more
First-line Supervisors Of Mechanics, Installers, And Repairers $60,299.50 2 Custom Food Solutions Llc , Pennsylvania Transformer Technology Inc
Designers, All Other $60,263.92 52 Betz Contracting & Machining Inc. , Blueprint Llc , 41 more
Civil Engineering Technicians $60,196.41 17 Baumann Consulting, Inc. , Burns & Mcdonnell Engineering Company, Inc. , 11 more
Legal Support Workers, All Other $60,025.89 36 Cameron Micheroni & Silvia Llc , Carolyn Lee Pllc , 25 more
Instructional Coordinators $59,967.73 344 A. T. Still University Of Health Sciences , Adelphi University , 231 more
Media And Communication Equipment Workers, All Other $59,654.20 3 Mcs Sales & Services, Inc. , Tcs Us Productions 10, Inc. , 1 more
Photographers $59,571.20 4 Arashi Image Inc , Getty Images (us), Inc. , 2 more
Museum Technicians And Conservators $59,400.64 24 American Museum Of Natural History , Brink's Global Services Usa, Inc. , 14 more
Dietitians And Nutritionists $59,297.79 80 The Fort Wayne Community School Corporation , Adventist Health Delano , 65 more
Home Economics Teachers, Postsecondary $58,898.70 20 Auburn University , Illinois State University , 14 more
Environmental Compliance Inspectors $58,884.67 3 Omnova Solutions Inc. , The Epsten Group

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.