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
Technical Directors/managers $82,235.00 15 Berklee College Of Music , Cmc Neptune , 13 more
Writers And Authors $82,177.95 37 Adam & Eve Inc. , Anomaly Partners Llc , 29 more
Atmospheric And Space Scientists $82,108.91 122 Northwest Research Associates, Inc. , Battelle Memorial Institute , 45 more
Online Merchants $81,509.75 4 Aesop Usa Inc. , Iro Inc. , 2 more
Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists And Geographers $81,121.00 259 2678 Holdings Llc , Achievement Engineering Corp. , 135 more
Environmental Restoration Planners $81,093.25 4 Noble Research Institute Llc , The Field Museum Of Natural History , 2 more
Transportation Engineers $80,482.27 233 Aecom Technical Services Inc , Alliance Texas Engineering , 96 more
Program Directors $80,343.51 3 Rippl Labs, Inc. , The University Of Southern California , 1 more
Wind Energy Engineers $80,197.85 27 Alliance For Sustainable Energy, Llc , Constellation Wind Llc , 9 more
Ship Engineers $80,163.00 2 Ship Guard America Llc , Va Enterprises, Llc
Agents And Business Managers Of Artists, Performers, And Athletes $80,131.11 15 Amplify Live, Llc , Bckors, Llc , 12 more
Producers And Directors $80,110.09 129 2d Photo Production Llc , Aardvark International, Inc. , 109 more
Civil Engineers $79,990.36 3,583 2m Associates Llc , 3 Rocks Engineering Llc , 1607 more
Physical Therapists $79,857.51 1,330 Ace Healthcare Resources, Llc , Core One Physical Therapy And Chiropractic Pllc , 482 more
Regulatory Affairs Specialists $79,822.46 631 Aaa Virginia Consulting Inc , Ab Infotek Llc , 369 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.