Industry comparison

Health Care & Social Assistance 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 (NAICS 61) and Health Care & Social Assistance (NAICS 62) are two major H-1B sectors with distinct sponsorship patterns. Educational Services leads significantly on total filings with 613,346 H-1B applications across 6,945 employers, reflecting heavy reliance on foreign talent in higher education, research institutions, and international student services. Health Care & Social Assistance, while filing fewer applications (383,320), operates through a larger employer base of 13,141 companies—indicating more distributed sponsorship across hospitals, clinics, nursing facilities, and social service agencies.

The contrast reveals different recruitment strategies: Educational Services concentrates H-1B sponsorship among fewer, larger institutions; Health Care & Social Assistance spreads sponsorships more widely among diverse provider types and sizes. Filings per employer average 88 in Educational Services versus 29 in Health Care, underscoring the sector's heavier visa dependency. Both sectors represent critical H-1B users but serve different labor markets—one academic and research-focused, the other clinical and care-delivery-focused.

H-1B Educational Services vs Health Care
NAICS 61 vs NAICS 62 H-1B filings
H-1B sector comparison
Educational Services H-1B sponsorship
Health Care H-1B employers

Sector A

Health Care & Social Assistance

NAICS 62Rank #6

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	Health Care & Social Assistance	Educational Services
Total filings	383,320	613,346▲
National share %	4.11%	6.57%▲
Distinct sponsors	13,141▲	6,945
Filings / employer	29	88
Rank	#6	#4▲
Top sponsor	General Hospital Corporation	University of Michigan
Top occupation	Physicians, All Other	Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary

Filings by fiscal year

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

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

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