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
Emergency Management Directors $90,438.00 1 Fusion Risk Management, Inc.
Solar Energy Systems Engineers $90,401.67 111 Cs Energy, Llc , Nextracker Llc , 84 more
Credit Analysts $90,321.27 158 2nd Order Solutions, Inc. , Aaxy Llc , 93 more
Intelligence Analysts $90,240.75 4 County Of Hamilton , Middle East Media & Research Institute Inc. , 2 more
Anesthesiologist Assistants $89,835.15 4 Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis , Iu Health Care Associates , 1 more
Financial Examiners $89,677.15 39 Amexlog Corporation , Bank Of China , 21 more
Energy Engineers $89,577.76 223 Brady Services Holdings, Inc. , Aecom Technical Services Inc , 123 more
Mathematicians $88,869.91 242 Advantest America, Inc. , Affirm, Inc. , 92 more
Clinical Research Coordinators $88,307.74 207 Abbvie Inc. , Administrators Of The Tulane Educational Fund , 117 more
Insurance Underwriters $87,630.30 29 Ace American Insurance Company , Allianz Global Risks Us Insurance Company , 18 more
Personal Financial Advisors $87,515.65 26 American International Financial And Insurance Marketing, Inc. , Apcm Wealth Management For Individuals Llc , 17 more
Financial Quantitative Analysts $87,485.55 1,372 Doordash, Inc. , 10t Holdings Llc , 496 more
Life Scientists, All Other $87,421.80 40 Arizona State University , Baruch S. Blumberg Institute , 22 more
Sales Representatives, Wholesale And Manufacturing, Technical And Scientific Products $87,018.85 121 Activefence Inc , Adams International Llc , 96 more
Biomedical Engineers $86,817.22 1,200 Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Inc. , Neuro42 Inc , 609 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.