Industry comparison

Health Care & Social Assistance vs Information

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

Summary

Health Care & Social Assistance (NAICS 62) and Information (NAICS 51) represent two of the largest H-1B sponsoring sectors in the U.S. economy, but they differ significantly in scale and structure.

Information leads on raw H-1B filings with 624,447 total filings compared to Health Care's 383,320—a difference of over 240,000 petitions. However, Health Care & Social Assistance sponsors those filings across 13,141 employers, while Information concentrates its filings among just 11,007 employers. This suggests Health Care has a more distributed sponsorship base, whereas Information filings are more concentrated among fewer, larger employers.

Information's dominance reflects the sector's reliance on specialized technical and professional roles, while Health Care's broader employer count reflects its diverse landscape of hospitals, clinics, and care providers spread across the country.

Health Care vs Information H-1B
H-1B filings by sector
NAICS 62 vs NAICS 51
H-1B sponsorship comparison
sector H-1B analysis

Sector A

Health Care & Social Assistance

NAICS 62Rank #6

Sector B

Information

NAICS 51Rank #3

Key metrics

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

Metric	Health Care & Social Assistance	Information
Total filings	393,204	645,895▲
National share %	4.11%	6.76%▲
Distinct sponsors	14,334▲	12,106
Filings / employer	27	53
Rank	#6	#3▲
Top sponsor	General Hospital Corporation	Microsoft Corporation
Top occupation	Physicians, All Other	Software Developers

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	20,039

Information

Time series
Period	Value
FY2010	18,990
FY2011	20,340
FY2012	21,781
FY2013	21,714
FY2014	24,089
FY2015	27,468
FY2016	30,224
FY2017	32,458
FY2018	37,065
FY2019	39,766
FY2020	40,038
FY2021	70,034
FY2022	60,549
FY2023	54,770
FY2024	49,619
FY2025	55,080
FY2026	41,910