Industry comparison

Administrative & Support Services vs Information

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

Summary

The Information sector and Administrative & Support Services represent two very different scales of H-1B sponsorship in the US economy.

Information dominates by filing volume, with 624,447 H-1B petitions filed across 11,007 employers. This reflects the sector's heavy reliance on skilled foreign talent in software development, IT consulting, data science, and telecommunications. By contrast, Administrative & Support Services shows significantly lower H-1B activity, with 110,482 filings from 3,695 employers—a roughly 5.7× smaller filing count.

On employer participation, Information also leads with 11,007 H-1B sponsors compared to 3,695 in Administrative & Support Services. However, the filings-per-employer ratio tells a different story: Information averages 56.7 filings per employer, while Administrative & Support Services averages 29.9 filings per employer, suggesting that Information sector companies tend to file more H-1B petitions per sponsoring firm.

Information sector H-1B filings
Administrative Support H-1B sponsorship
H-1B filings by industry
Information vs Administrative H-1B
NAICS 51 vs 56 H-1B

Sector A

Administrative & Support Services

NAICS 56Rank #10

Sector B

Information

NAICS 51Rank #3

Key metrics

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

Metric	Administrative & Support Services	Information
Total filings	110,482	624,447▲
National share %	1.18%	6.69%▲
Distinct sponsors	3,695	11,007▲
Filings / employer	30	57
Rank	#10	#3▲
Top sponsor	Populus Group LLC	Microsoft Corporation
Top occupation	Software Developers	Software Developers

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

Information

Time series
Period	Value
FY2010	18,990
FY2011	20,340
FY2012	21,781
FY2013	21,714
FY2014	24,089
FY2015	27,468
FY2016	30,224
FY2017	32,458
FY2018	37,065
FY2019	39,766
FY2020	40,038
FY2021	70,034
FY2022	60,549
FY2023	54,770
FY2024	49,619
FY2025	55,080
FY2026	20,462