Industry comparison

Administrative & Support Services vs Health Care & Social Assistance

NAICS-sector comparison built from the H1B Report corpus. Filing volume, distinct sponsor count, sponsor concentration and dominant occupations.

Summary

Administrative & Support Services (NAICS 56) and Health Care & Social Assistance (NAICS 62) represent two distinct H-1B labor markets in the United States.

Health Care & Social Assistance dominates H-1B sponsorship, with 383,320 filings across 13,141 employers—more than 3.5 times the volume of Administrative & Support Services. The health care sector's heavy reliance on H-1B visa sponsorship reflects persistent demand for nurses, medical technicians, and care workers. By contrast, Administrative & Support Services filed 110,482 H-1B applications from 3,695 employers, a smaller but still significant user of the visa program.

Both sectors employ multiple sponsors, but Health Care & Social Assistance shows deeper penetration: an average of 29 filings per employer versus 30 for Administrative Services, indicating comparable sponsorship intensity despite the vast difference in total volume. The gap reflects health care's ongoing staffing pressures and the administrative sector's smaller footprint in H-1B recruitment.

H-1B sectors comparison
health care H-1B filings
administrative services sponsorship
NAICS sector H-1B
health care vs admin H-1B
H-1B employer sectors

Sector A

Administrative & Support Services

NAICS 56Rank #10

Sector B

Health Care & Social Assistance

NAICS 62Rank #6

Key metrics

Filings / employer is a concentration hint — higher means a few sponsors do most of the filing.

Metric	Administrative & Support Services	Health Care & Social Assistance
Total filings	110,482	383,320▲
National share %	1.18%	4.11%▲
Distinct sponsors	3,695	13,141▲
Filings / employer	30	29
Rank	#10	#6▲
Top sponsor	Populus Group LLC	General Hospital Corporation
Top occupation	Software Developers	Physicians, All Other

Filings by fiscal year

Year-over-year H-1B demand within each sector.

Administrative & Support Services

Time series
Period	Value
FY2010	5,457
FY2011	5,449
FY2012	5,846
FY2013	5,311
FY2014	5,741
FY2015	6,709
FY2016	6,966
FY2017	7,272
FY2018	8,341
FY2019	6,795
FY2020	5,807
FY2021	8,722
FY2022	6,473
FY2023	6,758
FY2024	7,284
FY2025	8,882
FY2026	2,669

Health Care & Social Assistance

Time series
Period	Value
FY2010	26,430
FY2011	23,800
FY2012	23,070
FY2013	21,135
FY2014	21,240
FY2015	21,154
FY2016	21,615
FY2017	21,197
FY2018	22,736
FY2019	20,895
FY2020	19,124
FY2021	30,749
FY2022	22,415
FY2023	26,181
FY2024	23,804
FY2025	27,620
FY2026	10,155