Industry comparison

Finance & Insurance vs Retail Trade (general)

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

Summary

Finance & Insurance and Retail Trade represent two distinct sectors of H-1B sponsorship activity in the US labor market. Finance & Insurance filed 305,658 H-1B petitions across 6,009 employers, nearly double the filings in Retail Trade. Retail Trade (general) reported 161,910 filings from 1,806 employers, reflecting lower overall H-1B sponsorship intensity in the retail segment.

On a per-employer basis, Finance & Insurance employers averaged approximately 50.8 filings per company, while Retail Trade employers averaged roughly 89.6 filings per company. This suggests that although Finance & Insurance dominates in total volume, individual retail employers that do sponsor H-1B workers tend to file at higher rates. Finance & Insurance's larger employer base (6,009 vs 1,806) and substantially higher filing count reflect greater reliance on foreign specialty workers in financial roles, whereas Retail Trade shows more selective and concentrated H-1B usage.

Finance and Insurance H-1B sponsorship
Retail Trade H-1B filings
H-1B sector comparison
Finance vs retail H-1B
NAICS 52 vs 45 H-1B

Sector A

Finance & Insurance

NAICS 52Rank #4

Sector B

Retail Trade (general)

NAICS 45Rank #6

Key metrics

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

Metric	Finance & Insurance	Retail Trade (general)
Total filings	305,658▲	161,910
National share %	7.98%▲	4.23%
Distinct sponsors	6,009▲	1,806
Filings / employer	51	90
Rank	#4▲	#6
Top sponsor	Fidelity Technology Group, LLC	AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC (WA)
Top occupation	Software Developers	Software Developers