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
Podiatrists $95,365.38 20 Catholic Health System, Inc. , Eastern Virginia Medical School , 13 more
Radiation Therapists $94,210.00 3 Genesiscare Usa Services, Llc , Team Net Medical
Mechatronics Engineers $93,947.39 427 Phaidra Inc. , Vertech Industrial Systems, Llc , 223 more
Engineers, All Other $92,863.73 200 10x Genomics, Inc. , 3s Network, Inc. , 159 more
Industrial Engineers $92,075.99 3,577 Embraer Engineering & Technology Center Usa, Inc. , Axtria Inc , 1524 more
Diagnostic Medical Sonographers $91,936.00 1 Allina Health System
Aviation Inspectors $91,686.33 3 Lan Cargo Repair Station, Llc. , Lan Cargo S.a. , 1 more
Health And Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers And Inspectors $91,603.86 89 Abbvie Inc. , Accenture Llp , 68 more
Biostatisticians $91,467.66 748 Abbott Molecular Inc. , Abbvie Inc. , 266 more
Fire-prevention And Protection Engineers $91,321.77 13 Aecom Technical Services Inc , American Automatic Sprinkler Co Inc , 9 more
Automotive Engineers $91,310.55 529 Auto Motive Power, Inc. , Actalent, Inc. , 168 more
Mechanical Engineers $91,032.85 7,186 Globe Trailer Manufacturing, Inc. , Ch2m Hill Engineers, Inc. , 2635 more
Operations Research Analysts $90,814.97 5,926 Tte Technology, Inc. , Appsys Global, Inc. , 1625 more
Mining And Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers $90,619.36 82 Asarco Llc , Ash Grove Cement Company , 47 more
Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary $90,579.08 1,598 St. Lawrence University , A. T. Still University Of Health Sciences , 256 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.