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
Orthodontists $240,056.56 33 Brident Dds Pc , Brident Dental Associates Pc , 28 more
Software Developers, Systems Software $217,423.00 1 Meta Platforms, Inc.
Chief Executives $205,926.97 431 Castle Branch, Inc. , Chenmark Capital Management, Llc , 385 more
Airline Pilots, Copilots, And Flight Engineers $177,053.00 245 Abx Air, Inc. , Agriflite Services Inc. , 36 more
Loss Prevention Managers $176,010.00 1 Betmgm, Llc
Investment Fund Managers $170,934.00 1 Michaels Organization Llc
Computer And Information Systems Managers $164,572.14 8,577 Avail Medsystems, Inc. , Axtria Inc , 2386 more
Biofuels Production Managers $164,382.00 1 Sempra Corporation Dba Sempra Services Corporation
Financial Managers $159,106.24 927 Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. , 213 Management, Llc , 633 more
Architectural And Engineering Managers $155,023.64 1,618 Auto Motive Power, Inc. , Doordash, Inc. , 870 more
Marketing Managers $152,530.60 1,563 Netspend Corporation , Bala Bangles Inc. , 1026 more
Dentists, All Other Specialists $149,482.82 49 Acorn Dentistry For Kids, Llc , Bronxcare Health System , 39 more
Physicians And Surgeons, All Other $148,647.00 2 Carolinas Physicians Network, Inc. D/b/a Atrium Health Medical Group , Howard University
Nurse Anesthetists $147,977.30 10 American Anesthesiology Of North Carolina, P.c. , Perfusion.com Inc , 3 more
Lawyers $145,827.35 1,664 City Of Philadelphia , Direct Counsel Llc , 674 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.