Industry comparison

Finance & Insurance vs Wholesale Trade

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

Summary

Finance & Insurance and Wholesale Trade represent distinct H-1B sponsorship patterns. Finance & Insurance leads substantially on filing volume with 588,317 total H-1B filings across 9,250 employers, reflecting heavy reliance on skilled visa workers in banking, insurance, and financial services. Wholesale Trade filed 118,161 H-1B applications from 7,818 employers—significantly lower activity but still a material source of visa sponsorship in distribution and logistics sectors.

Finance & Insurance sponsors roughly five times as many H-1B positions as Wholesale Trade, and employs more sponsors overall. Wholesale Trade sponsors concentrate visa petitions in a smaller employer base, suggesting either fewer high-volume filers or less intensive H-1B use compared to the financial services sector. Both sectors reflect how H-1B sponsorship varies by industry structure and the availability of domestic talent in specialty roles.

Finance and Insurance H-1B sponsorship
Wholesale Trade H-1B filings
H-1B sector comparison
Finance vs Wholesale H-1B
NAICS 52 vs NAICS 42 H-1B

Sector A

Finance & Insurance

NAICS 52Rank #5

Sector B

Wholesale Trade

NAICS 42Rank #9

Key metrics

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

Metric	Finance & Insurance	Wholesale Trade
Total filings	608,260▲	121,762
National share %	6.36%▲	1.27%
Distinct sponsors	10,091▲	8,673
Filings / employer	60	14
Rank	#5▲	#9
Top sponsor	GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. LLC	Dell Marketing L.P.
Top occupation	Software Developers	Software Developers

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	38,893

Wholesale Trade

Time series
Period	Value
FY2010	7,558
FY2011	6,511
FY2012	6,434
FY2013	6,584
FY2014	7,128
FY2015	7,692
FY2016	8,054
FY2017	7,652
FY2018	7,960
FY2019	8,069
FY2020	6,028
FY2021	8,904
FY2022	6,766
FY2023	6,670
FY2024	6,255
FY2025	7,627
FY2026	5,870