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2026 Hiring Signals by Occupation

Early employer job plans, salary levels, and workforce expansion trends — Based on FY2025 prevailing wage filings (latest full year of data).

All Job Title Occupation Law Firm Attorney Industry City State Status

Rank	Occupation	No. of Determinations ^*	Average Salary
1	IT and Math	85,345	$131,179
2	Healthcare	25,692	$77,450
3	Business and Finance	23,615	$99,928
4	Architecture and Engineering	22,916	$113,333
5	Management	17,451	$154,546
6	Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance	11,343	$37,894
7	Food Preparation and Serving	9,500	$38,430
8	Education, Training, and Library	5,921	$61,095
9	Construction and Extraction	5,599	$51,324
10	Office and Administrative Support	4,548	$48,580
11	Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media	3,951	$75,779
12	Personal Care and Service	3,656	$35,068
13	Sales	3,227	$90,983
14	Life, Physical, and Social science	3,217	$75,177
15	Transportation and Material Moving	3,148	$50,788
16	Installation, Maintenance and Repair	2,916	$49,634
17	Healthcare Support	2,868	$35,120
18	Production	2,861	$43,622
19	Farming, Fishing and Forestry	1,524	$41,334
20	Legal	1,412	$115,567
21	Community and Social services	1,069	$53,267
22	Protective Service	163	$44,758

All Job Title Occupation Law Firm Attorney Industry City State Status

The above report lists the top Occupations submitted by US emplloyer in fiscal year 2025. The H1B Visa Petitions is the number of Labor Condition Application(LCA) for H1B Visa. . The number includes new, renew and transfer of LCA. The Average Salary is the average proffered salary on LCA or Form 9035. Sometimes the visa sponsors(employers) does not enter a specific salary, but a salary range. Our algorithm uses the middle point of the range to calculate the average salary.

For Example, the first record on this report means that in fiscal 2026 85,345 LCA submitted for H1B Visa are IT and Math. The average salary of those 85,345 LCA is $131,179.

*: The number of LCA includes renewed, transferred and cap-exempt LCA. Department of Labor(DOL) typically certifies more than 3 times the number of foreign work requests than the number of H-1B visas issued by USCIS.

A new LCA is needed if the foreigner worker changes his or her work location(even within the same state and same company), because the prevailing wage of the position depends on geographic location. However, if the new location is within the same Metropolitan Statistical Area or normal commuting distance, no new LCA is needed.