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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
Radiologic Technologists $66,844.40 3 Father Flanagan's Boys' Home , Kimball County Hospital , 1 more
Interior Designers $66,752.16 50 Appenin Cabinets Llc , Architecture & Information Pc , 43 more
Physics Teachers, Postsecondary $66,708.64 45 Clark Atlanta University , Bard College At Simon's Rock , 32 more
Paralegals And Legal Assistants $66,613.37 12 Foundation To Support Animal Protection , Gabrovski Law Firm , 9 more
Industrial Ecologists $66,585.56 5 Oregon State University , The Curators Of The University Of Missouri , 2 more
First-line Supervisors Of Construction Trades And Extraction Workers $65,853.00 1 Nehemiah Commercial Construction, Llc
Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary $65,739.83 35 Board Of Regents Of The University Of Nebraska , California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo , 25 more
Geographers $65,669.72 10 Arizona State University , Battelle Memorial Institute , 7 more
Postsecondary Teachers, All Other $65,442.22 24 Andrews University , Board Of Regents Of The University Of Nebraska , 13 more
Remote Sensing Scientists And Technologists $65,389.10 10 Dndc Applications Research And Training , Northern Arizona University , 6 more
Recreational Therapists $65,236.00 5 Department Of State Hospitals - Coalinga , Hanger Prosthetics & Orthotics Inc. , 2 more
Zoologists And Wildlife Biologists $64,941.63 19 Auburn University , Bat Conservation International , 16 more
Cardiovascular Technologists And Technicians $64,917.00 1 Ihc Health Services, Inc.
Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary $64,900.83 163 Appalachian State University , Arizona State University , 112 more
Area, Ethnic, And Cultural Studies Teachers, Postsecondary $64,586.62 8 Appalachian State University , Cornell University , 6 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.