H-1B Job Titles & Salaries

H-1B visas are granted for "specialty occupations" requiring at least a bachelor's degree. The most common roles are in technology (software engineers, data scientists), healthcare (physicians, researchers), business (analysts, accountants), and academia (professors, researchers). We track 995 unique job titles across these categories.

The highest-paying H-1B roles are typically senior technical positions: Staff Software Engineer, Principal Engineer, Engineering Manager, and Data Science Lead roles at major tech companies often exceed $200,000 in base salary. Management and director-level positions also command premium salaries.

This data comes from official US Department of Labor Labor Condition Application (LCA) filings. Companies are legally required to report accurate salary information when sponsoring H-1B workers. Falsifying this data is federal fraud. This makes our data more reliable than self-reported salary sites like Glassdoor or Levels.fyi.

Job titles are what companies call the position (e.g., "Staff Software Engineer"). SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) codes are government categories used to group similar occupations. For example, SOC 15-1252 covers "Software Developers" regardless of what individual companies call the role.