Industry comparison

Health Care & Social Assistance vs Manufacturing (paper/chemicals)

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

Summary

Health Care & Social Assistance and Manufacturing (paper/chemicals) represent two distinct segments of H-1B sponsorship in the United States.

Health Care & Social Assistance leads significantly in H-1B activity, with 383,320 total filings across 13,141 employers. This reflects broad reliance on foreign-skilled workers in nursing, clinical support, and administrative healthcare roles. Manufacturing (paper/chemicals) filed 119,027 H-1B cases across 4,712 employers—roughly one-third the volume—reflecting more specialized hiring for technical and engineering positions in those subsectors.

Health Care sponsors more than three times as many H-1B petitions as Manufacturing, and fields more than 2.8 times as many employers in the program. Manufacturing's lower employer count suggests more concentrated sponsorship among larger firms, while Health Care's broader base indicates distributed hiring across many smaller and mid-sized facilities.

health care vs manufacturing H-1B
H-1B sector comparison
health care H-1B filings
manufacturing H-1B sponsorship
NAICS sector H-1B

Sector A

Health Care & Social Assistance

NAICS 62Rank #6

Sector B

Manufacturing (paper/chemicals)

NAICS 32Rank #8

Key metrics

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

Metric	Health Care & Social Assistance	Manufacturing (paper/chemicals)
Total filings	393,204▲	123,144
National share %	4.11%▲	1.29%
Distinct sponsors	14,334▲	5,110
Filings / employer	27	24
Rank	#6▲	#8
Top sponsor	General Hospital Corporation	Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
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

Manufacturing (paper/chemicals)

Time series
Period	Value
FY2010	4,986
FY2011	5,266
FY2012	5,421
FY2013	5,098
FY2014	5,815
FY2015	6,136
FY2016	6,406
FY2017	7,243
FY2018	7,664
FY2019	8,270
FY2020	7,489
FY2021	12,502
FY2022	8,500
FY2023	8,497
FY2024	7,756
FY2025	9,221
FY2026	6,874