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
Wind Energy Engineers $92,643.00 1 Goldwind Usa, Inc.
Climate Change Analysts $91,814.20 10 Environmental Investigation Agency , Inter-american Dialogue , 7 more
Compensation, Benefits, And Job Analysis Specialists $91,751.83 7 Christus Health , Gallaudet University , 4 more
Radiation Therapists $91,644.60 2 Team Net Medical , University Of Vermont Medical Center, Inc.
Biostatisticians $91,567.45 157 Abbvie Us Llc , Adaptimmune Llc , 96 more
Biomedical Engineers $91,511.17 225 3d Systems , Abbvie Bioresearch Center Inc. , 153 more
Clinical Nurse Specialists $91,235.60 3 Neukloud Inc , The Caroline Kline Galland Home
Mechanical Engineering Technicians $91,169.40 5 Old Dominion University Research Foundation , Tesla, Inc. , 1 more
Law Teachers, Postsecondary $91,059.40 10 Cornell University , Duke University , 6 more
Executive Secretaries And Executive Administrative Assistants $90,875.20 1 Draco Natural Products, Inc
Education Administrators, Elementary And Secondary School $90,811.57 7 Framingham Public Schools , International Leadership Of Texas , 4 more
Tax Examiners And Collectors, And Revenue Agents $90,688.00 1 Kpmg Llp
Clinical Research Coordinators $89,999.20 63 Abbvie Inc. , Aids Healthcare Foundation , 48 more
Transportation Planners $89,987.37 19 Aecom Technical Services Inc , Cambridge Systematics, Inc. , 11 more
Environmental Engineers $89,219.09 63 Aarc Environmental, Inc. , Aecom Technical Services Inc , 51 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.