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 First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Worker, with an average salary of $60,359 across 17 jobs with 13 distinct hiring companies. The second top paying H1-B visa job in 2025 is Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers with an average salary of $55,833 across 33 jobs with 32 distinct hiring companies

Job Title Average Wage Number Of Jobs Hiring Companies
Technical Writers $101,459.71 34 A P Ventures, Llc , Abbvie Inc. , 25 more
Energy Engineers $100,572.25 40 Aecom Technical Services Inc , Affiliated Engineers, Inc. , 31 more
Solar Energy Systems Engineers $100,329.69 13 Caelux Corporation , Florida Power & Light Company , 9 more
Operations Research Analysts $99,777.39 1,181 Axtria Inc , John Hancock Life Insurance Company (usa) , 470 more
Education Administrators, Postsecondary $98,277.10 50 Arizona State University , Bard College , 40 more
Anesthesiologist Assistants $97,993.00 5 Indiana University Health Care Associates, Inc. , Shands Teaching Hospital And Clinics, Inc. , 2 more
Financial Examiners $96,704.82 11 Aus Merchant Services, Inc. , Barton Cpa Pllc , 5 more
Fire-prevention And Protection Engineers $95,825.60 5 Buro Happold Consulting Engineers, Inc. , Factory Mutual Insurance Company , 2 more
Avionics Technicians $95,513.60 1 Michael Houtchens
Business Continuity Planners $94,972.75 4 General Motors Financial Company, Inc. , Jpmorgan Chase & Co. , 2 more
Foresters $94,099.00 1 Jpmorgan Chase & Co.
Sales Representatives, Wholesale And Manufacturing, Technical And Scientific Products $93,360.38 23 Admera Health Llc , Amazon Web Services, Inc. , 21 more
Insurance Underwriters $92,938.60 5 Aegis Service Corp. , Applied Underwriters, Inc. , 3 more
Political Scientists $92,930.69 13 Alliance For Middle East Peace, Inc. , Define American , 11 more
Engineers, All Other $92,708.58 45 A Professional Aviation Services Corp. , Ab Electronics Llc , 37 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.