Industry comparison

Educational Services vs Manufacturing (paper/chemicals)

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

Summary

Educational Services and Manufacturing (paper/chemicals) represent vastly different scales of H-1B sponsorship. Educational Services dominates with 613,346 filings across 6,945 employers, reflecting heavy reliance on visa-sponsored faculty, researchers, and administrators at universities and schools. Manufacturing (paper/chemicals) filed 119,027 petitions with 4,712 employers, a five-fold difference driven by the sector's smaller workforce and higher automation.

The employer-to-filing ratio reveals distinct sponsorship patterns. Educational Services averages 88 filings per employer, suggesting concentrated hiring at large institutions. Manufacturing averages 25 filings per employer, indicating more dispersed sponsorship across plants and operations. Educational Services' scale reflects competitive global talent recruitment in academia and research, while Manufacturing's lower volume reflects regional production facilities and more localized hiring.

Educational Services H-1B filings
Manufacturing H-1B sponsorship comparison
NAICS 61 vs NAICS 32 H-1B
sector H-1B sponsorship trends
university H-1B vs manufacturing

Sector A

Educational Services

NAICS 61Rank #4

Sector B

Manufacturing (paper/chemicals)

NAICS 32Rank #8

Key metrics

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

Metric	Educational Services	Manufacturing (paper/chemicals)
Total filings	613,346▲	119,027
National share %	6.57%▲	1.28%
Distinct sponsors	6,945▲	4,712
Filings / employer	88	25
Rank	#4▲	#8
Top sponsor	University of Michigan	Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Top occupation	Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary	Software Developers

Filings by fiscal year

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

Educational Services

Time series
Period	Value
FY2010	39,175
FY2011	34,146
FY2012	35,379
FY2013	34,165
FY2014	33,842
FY2015	34,126
FY2016	34,254
FY2017	32,741
FY2018	34,175
FY2019	34,638
FY2020	29,870
FY2021	48,175
FY2022	36,695
FY2023	46,343
FY2024	41,453
FY2025	45,692
FY2026	18,477

Manufacturing (paper/chemicals)

Time series
Period	Value
FY2010	4,986
FY2011	5,266
FY2012	5,421
FY2013	5,098
FY2014	5,815
FY2015	6,136
FY2016	6,406
FY2017	7,243
FY2018	7,664
FY2019	8,270
FY2020	7,489
FY2021	12,502
FY2022	8,500
FY2023	8,497
FY2024	7,756
FY2025	9,221
FY2026	2,757