Comprehensive H2A Visa Data: Salaries, Top Paying Jobs, Employers Trends Information

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As of February 2024, there are 28 distinct job titles with current H2A workers in the United States, accross 142 distinct industries (by SOC code).

This page displays the top paying H2A 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 H2A Visa Jobs (2024)

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The table below shows the top paying H2-A visa jobs for the year 2023 across all job categories. The top paying H2-A 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 H2-A 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
Structural Iron And Steel Workers	$65,416.00	1	Signet Construction, Llc
Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines	$54,392.00	3	G. Lavoie Inc. , Pepin Lumber Inc. , 1 more
Carpenters	$52,066.56	5	Integrity Builders & Supply Inc. , North Star Ag Construction, Inc. , 2 more
Commercial Pilots	$52,000.00	2	Air Works, Llc
Soil And Plant Scientists	$52,000.00	1	Tira Nanza Wines, Llc
Animal Breeders	$50,106.40	4	Lindy Farm Of Ct Llc , Rooker Training Stable, Inc. , 1 more
Roofers	$49,873.20	4	Signet Construction, Llc
First-line Supervisors Of Farming, Fishing, And Forestry Workers	$49,703.43	79	Ag Labor Llc , Araona Labor Logistics, Llc , 67 more
Heavy And Tractor-trailer Truck Drivers	$45,477.78	169	Abk Company , Acorn Farms, Inc. , 144 more
Operating Engineers And Other Construction Equipment Operators	$45,069.44	5	Black Dirt Drainage, Llc , Edmond Roy & Sons Inc. , 3 more
Bus And Truck Mechanics And Diesel Engine Specialists	$44,647.20	2	Teche Vermilion Sugar Cane Growers' Association, Inc. , Walther Farms Llc - Mi
Crane And Tower Operators	$44,356.00	6	Pepin Lumber Inc. , Signet Construction, Llc , 1 more
Logging Equipment Operators	$43,896.32	20	Bd&r Timber Inc. , Conifor , 8 more
Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, And Ambulance	$43,555.20	2	South Central Sugar Cane Growers' Association , Teche Vermilion Sugar Cane Growers' Association, Inc.
Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, And Tenders, Wood	$42,640.00	1	Louis Lessard Inc.

Average Salary Over Time For all H2A visa jobs

In 2010, the salary for all H2A visa jobs was $18,056. It peaked in 2023 with an average salary of $32,604, and the recent trend shows the salary on an incline.

Below is a list of each H2A Visa in our database

Visa ID
H-300-23270-387281
H-300-23264-366954
H-300-23263-362678
H-300-23263-362595
H-300-23262-356798
H-300-23261-354875
H-300-23261-354824
H-300-23261-354246
H-300-23261-354153
H-300-23261-353987

Number of H2A Visa Employees by Category (All Years)

As of May 2023, there has been a total of 5,450,552 H2-A 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 H2-A 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 H2-A jobs.