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
Archivists $71,167.00 2 Armenian Heritage Museum A California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation , The Leland Stanford, Jr University
Environmental Scientists And Specialists, Including Health $71,069.62 56 Aecom Technical Services Inc , Alliance For Sustainable Energy, Llc , 47 more
Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary $70,865.80 84 Ball State University , Baylor College Of Medicine , 62 more
Molecular And Cellular Biologists $70,513.17 364 Abbvie Bioresearch Center Inc. , Actus Bio, Inc. , 144 more
Farmers, Ranchers, And Other Agricultural Managers $70,257.31 14 Acm Human Resources Llc , Atlantic Sapphire Usa Llc , 8 more
Public Relations Specialists $70,010.36 82 5w Public Relations, Llc , Alpha Kilo Creative Llc , 74 more
Chiropractors $69,950.40 5 E1 Spine Pllc , Khalsa Chiropractic Office, P.c. , 3 more
History Teachers, Postsecondary $69,880.58 18 Adelphi University , Brown University , 15 more
Health Technologists And Technicians, All Other $69,742.67 3 Stanford Health Care , The Lowell General Hospital
Set And Exhibit Designers $69,735.20 3 Lucas Museum Of Narrative Art , Open Avenues Foundation , 1 more
Technical Directors/managers $69,659.00 4 George P. Johnson Company , Human Llc , 1 more
Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, And Space Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary $69,410.83 23 Colorado State University , Columbia University , 18 more
Architectural And Civil Drafters $69,289.22 24 3d Model Management Llc , Amenta Emma Architects P.c. , 19 more
Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists $69,286.98 1,045 Abbvie Biotherapeutics Inc. , Abbvie Inc. , 263 more
Anthropology And Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary $69,238.50 4 The University Of Tennessee , University Of California, Santa Cruz , 2 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 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.