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
Chefs And Head Cooks $58,868.36 48 5 Fusion Llc , A Halibut Inc , 40 more
History Teachers, Postsecondary $58,764.95 106 Administrators Of The Tulane Educational Fund , Arizona State University , 81 more
Equal Opportunity Representatives And Officers $58,760.00 2 Boston College , Sul Ross State University
Healthcare Practitioners And Technical Workers, All Other $58,676.24 437 Albany College Of Pharmacy And Health Sciences , Albert Einstein Medical Center , 58 more
Zoologists And Wildlife Biologists $58,666.33 49 Auburn University , Boston College , 34 more
Film And Video Editors $58,497.72 69 16w22 Ventures Llc , A China Global Logistics Inc. , 58 more
Adult Basic And Secondary Education And Literacy Teachers And Instructors $58,211.41 16 American Education Elites, Llc. , Bluedata International, Inc. , 10 more
Environmental Engineering Technicians $58,035.02 7 Ensol, Inc. , Locus Technologies , 4 more
Government Property Inspectors And Investigators $57,970.00 1 New York City Department Of Investigation
Psychologists, All Other $57,940.69 61 Behavioral Ideas Lab Inc. , Blue Sprig Pediatrics, Inc. , 40 more
Industrial Engineering Technicians $57,921.55 16 Hailiang Copper Texas Inc , Adv-tech International, Llc , 10 more
Physical Scientists, All Other $57,886.29 40 Arizona State University , Carnegie Mellon University , 15 more
Vocational Education Teachers, Postsecondary $57,759.14 17 Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute Of Technology , F.i.t. Aviation, Llc , 12 more
Physical Therapist Assistants $57,637.00 1 University Of Georgia; Oge
Foresters $57,601.40 10 Anew Climate, Llc , North Carolina State University , 5 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.