Industry comparison

Information vs Health Care & Social Assistance

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 Information are two major H-1B sponsoring sectors, but they differ significantly in scale and sponsor base.

Information leads substantially on H-1B filings with 624,447 total petitions versus Health Care's 383,320—a difference of over 241,000 filings. This reflects the tech sector's heavy reliance on skilled visa workers for software engineering, data science, and IT infrastructure roles. However, Health Care sponsors filings across 13,141 employers, a notably higher employer count than Information's 11,007, indicating that health care H-1B sponsorship is more distributed across facilities and practices.

The contrast highlights two distinct sponsorship models: Information concentrates filings among fewer, larger technology firms, while Health Care distributes petitions across a broader employer base of hospitals, clinics, and service providers competing for specialized medical and technical talent.

Health Care vs Information H-1B
Information sector H-1B filings
Health Care H-1B employers
H-1B comparison by industry
tech vs healthcare H-1B sponsorship
NAICS sector H-1B data

Sector A

Information

NAICS 51Rank #3

Sector B

Health Care & Social Assistance

NAICS 62Rank #6

Key metrics

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

Metric	Information	Health Care & Social Assistance
Total filings	624,447▲	383,320
National share %	6.69%▲	4.11%
Distinct sponsors	11,007	13,141▲
Filings / employer	57	29
Rank	#3▲	#6
Top sponsor	Microsoft Corporation	General Hospital Corporation
Top occupation	Software Developers	Physicians, All Other

Filings by fiscal year

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

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	20,462

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