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
Software Quality Assurance Engineers And Testers $110,261.00 1 Archer Technologies Llc
Nurse Practitioners $107,987.30 63 24 On Physicians, Pc , Ability Works Rehab Services, Llc , 51 more
Aerospace Engineers $107,612.85 236 Embraer Executive Aircraft, Inc. , Adventa Corporation , 128 more
Robotics Engineers $107,250.84 429 Imperative Care, Inc. , 1x Technologies, Inc , 199 more
Training And Development Managers $107,163.81 69 Jama Food Services, Inc , Acrolect Solutions, Llc , 52 more
Medical And Health Services Managers $106,787.08 423 Horizons Healthcare Services , Ab Health Corp Llc , 308 more
Transportation, Storage, And Distribution Managers $106,729.43 112 Evana Tool & Engineering, Inc. , Adidas America, Inc. , 78 more
Physician Assistants $105,604.62 35 Albany Medical College , Bass Medical Group , 27 more
Radio Frequency Identification Device Specialists $104,263.01 20 Danta Technologies, Inc. , Dbspectra, Inc. , 10 more
Fuel Cell Engineers $103,564.93 27 American Battery Solutions, Inc. , Asius Llc , 16 more
Human Factors Engineers And Ergonomists $103,368.50 235 Advantis Global, Llc , Airbnb, Inc. , 97 more
Electrical Engineers $102,965.56 5,115 Auto Motive Power, Inc. , Dc Group, Inc , 1804 more
Materials Engineers $102,924.57 1,537 Imperative Care, Inc. , 3m Company , 338 more
Database Administrators $102,898.00 1 Motorola Solutions, Inc.
Economists $102,788.29 534 Axtria Inc , A.t. Kearney, Inc. , 208 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.