Industry comparison

Finance & Insurance 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

Finance & Insurance (NAICS 52) and Health Care & Social Assistance (NAICS 62) are among the largest H-1B sponsoring sectors. Finance & Insurance dominates on filing volume with 588,317 total H-1B filings across 9,250 employers, reflecting heavy recruitment in roles like data analysts, software engineers, and quantitative specialists. Health Care & Social Assistance filed 383,320 H-1B petitions but does so through a larger employer base of 13,141 organizations, indicating more distributed sponsorship across hospitals, clinics, and social service providers.

Finance & Insurance's higher filing count reflects concentrated hiring among major financial institutions and technology-driven roles. Health Care's greater number of sponsor employers reflects its fragmented structure—many smaller healthcare systems, individual hospitals, and care facilities each sponsoring smaller cohorts of workers, often in nursing, medical specialist, and support roles.

Finance vs Health Care H-1B
H-1B filings by sector
Finance insurance sponsorship
Health care H-1B employers
NAICS 52 vs 62

Sector A

Finance & Insurance

NAICS 52Rank #5

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	Finance & Insurance	Health Care & Social Assistance
Total filings	588,317▲	383,320
National share %	6.30%▲	4.11%
Distinct sponsors	9,250	13,141▲
Filings / employer	64	29
Rank	#5▲	#6
Top sponsor	GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. LLC	General Hospital Corporation
Top occupation	Software Developers	Physicians, All Other

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

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