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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
Environmental Science Teachers, Postsecondary $64,517.28 23 Administrators Of The Tulane Educational Fund , Ball State University , 19 more
Hydrologists $64,000.46 17 Board Of Regents Of The University Of Nebraska , Boskalis Offshore Management, Llc , 13 more
Vocational Education Teachers, Postsecondary $63,804.10 4 Florida Institute Of Technology , Halifax County Schools North Carolina , 2 more
Interpreters And Translators $63,795.12 15 Appen Ai, Inc. , Boviet Solar Technologies , 10 more
Training And Development Specialists $63,035.01 51 Aliento Education Fund , Alleviant Medical, Inc. , 36 more
Special Education Teachers, All Other $62,949.45 16 Camp Group Llc , Edtheory Llc , 10 more
Therapists, All Other $62,857.50 2 American Medical, Inc. , The Learning Center For The Deaf, Inc.
Fashion Designers $62,799.59 14 A Belle Usa Inc , Envogue International Llc. , 8 more
Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary $62,573.00 12 Georgia Institute Of Technology , Iowa State University Of Science And Technology , 9 more
Healthcare Practitioners And Technical Workers, All Other $62,572.23 7 Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai , Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital , 4 more
Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary $62,487.18 26 Arkansas State University , Barry University , 23 more
Music Directors And Composers $62,427.47 3 Larchmont Music Academy Ltd , New Place Players New York Inc , 1 more
Dietitians And Nutritionists $62,316.01 31 Adventist Health System/sunbelt, Inc. , Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital Of Chicago , 25 more
Special Education Teachers, Preschool $62,110.93 9 Ahrc Nyc , Bright Start Child Care, Llc. , 5 more
Civil Engineering Technicians $61,928.47 3 Seiler/lankes Group, Llc , Softel Techsource Llc , 1 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.