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 836 distinct job titles with current H1B workers in the United States, accross 1,580 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 (2025)




The table below shows the top paying H1-B visa jobs for the year 2025 across all job categories. The top paying H1-B visa job in 2025 is Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineer, with an average salary of $216,588 across 48 jobs with 12 distinct hiring companies. The second top paying H1-B visa job in 2025 is Chief Executives with an average salary of $216,282 across 128 jobs with 120 distinct hiring companies

Job Title Average Wage Number Of Jobs Hiring Companies
Network And Computer Systems Administrators $73,798.00 1 Ubs Business Solutions Us Llc
Nuclear Medicine Technologists $73,777.60 1 Kettering Network Services
Astronomers $73,708.66 29 American University , Association Of Universities For Research In Astronomy , 18 more
Social Scientists And Related Workers, All Other $73,579.80 10 Arizona State University , Northeastern University , 8 more
Food Scientists And Technologists $73,478.66 32 Delight Farm, Inc. , Bcfoods, Inc. , 27 more
Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary $72,500.44 188 Administrators Of The Tulane Educational Fund , Arizona State University , 118 more
Landscape Architects $72,484.39 34 Aecom Technical Services Inc , Agency Landscape & Planning, Llc. , 28 more
Survey Researchers $72,482.48 19 Albert Einstein College Of Medicine , American Dental Education Association , 14 more
Atmospheric And Space Scientists $72,435.58 35 Battelle Memorial Institute , Brookhaven National Laboratory , 22 more
Business Teachers, Postsecondary $72,331.13 153 Angelo State University , Appalachian State University , 114 more
Social And Community Service Managers $72,013.65 46 Alchemist Cdc , Aliento Education Fund , 36 more
Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, And Farm Products $71,854.84 34 Abb Inc. , Aesc Us Llc , 28 more
First-line Supervisors Of Farming, Fishing, And Forestry Workers $71,669.87 3 City Of Portland Oregon , Meena Packing Company, Inc. , 1 more
Critical Care Nurses $71,571.08 49 Carnegie Health & Life Sciences Inc , Cavalier County Memorial Hospital Association , 14 more
Mathematical Science Occupations, All Other $71,406.00 1 Planet Labs Pbc

Average Salary Over Time For all H1B visa jobs

In 2010, the salary for all H1B visa jobs was $76,011. It peaked in 2025 with an average salary of $121,908, 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 5,633,498 H1-B visa workers across all job types. The most common job type is Computer and Mathematical Occupations with 3,567,094 Computer and Mathematical Occupations jobs on record over all years accounting for 63.32% of total H1-B jobs. The second most prevalent job is the Business and Financial Operations Occupations job with 538,821 Business and Financial Operations Occupations jobs on record over all years accounting for 9.56% of 's total H1-B jobs.