Industry comparison

Finance & Insurance vs Educational Services

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

Summary

Educational Services and Finance & Insurance are among the largest H-1B sponsoring sectors in the US economy. Educational Services has filed 613,346 H-1B petitions across 6,945 employers, while Finance & Insurance has filed 588,317 petitions across 9,250 employers.

Educational Services leads in total filings by about 25,000 petitions, reflecting heavy reliance on visa sponsorship for faculty, researchers, and specialized academic roles. Finance & Insurance, despite fewer total filings, spreads sponsorship across significantly more employers—1,600+ additional firms—suggesting a more distributed approach to H-1B hiring across banks, insurance companies, and financial services firms.

Both sectors are major participants in the H-1B program, with Educational Services concentrated among fewer large institutions and Finance & Insurance distributed across a broader employer base.

Educational Services H-1B filings
Finance Insurance H-1B sponsorship
H-1B sector comparison
Educational Services vs Finance H-1B
NAICS 61 vs NAICS 52

Sector A

Finance & Insurance

NAICS 52Rank #5

Sector B

Educational Services

NAICS 61Rank #4

Key metrics

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

Metric	Finance & Insurance	Educational Services
Total filings	588,317	613,346▲
National share %	6.30%	6.57%▲
Distinct sponsors	9,250▲	6,945
Filings / employer	64	88
Rank	#5	#4▲
Top sponsor	GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. LLC	University of Michigan
Top occupation	Software Developers	Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary

Filings by fiscal year

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

Finance & Insurance

Time series
Period	Value
FY2010	18,669
FY2011	18,090
FY2012	18,557
FY2013	19,216
FY2014	22,794
FY2015	27,044
FY2016	28,760
FY2017	32,036
FY2018	38,729
FY2019	39,814
FY2020	39,659
FY2021	69,522
FY2022	51,485
FY2023	51,662
FY2024	42,693
FY2025	50,637
FY2026	18,950

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