Industry comparison

Information vs Wholesale Trade

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

Summary

Information and Wholesale Trade represent two distinct patterns of H-1B sponsorship in the U.S. economy.

The Information sector leads decisively on H-1B activity, with 330,090 filings across 6,078 employers. This reflects the sector's heavy reliance on specialty occupations in software development, IT infrastructure, data analysis, and related technical roles. Wholesale Trade, by contrast, filed 42,250 H-1B applications across 4,119 employers—about one-seventh the volume. Despite fewer filings, Wholesale Trade maintains a higher employer-to-filing ratio, suggesting more concentrated or selective sponsorship.

Information's significantly larger filing count underscores the technology sector's dominant role in H-1B sponsorship, while Wholesale Trade's smaller but still material participation reflects niche demand for specialized roles such as logistics, supply chain management, and technical sales.

Information vs Wholesale Trade H-1B
H-1B filings by sector comparison
Information sector H-1B sponsorship
Wholesale Trade H-1B filings
NAICS sector H-1B activity

Sector A

Information

NAICS 51Rank #2

Sector B

Wholesale Trade

NAICS 42Rank #10

Key metrics

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

Metric	Information	Wholesale Trade
Total filings	330,090▲	42,250
National share %	8.61%▲	1.10%
Distinct sponsors	6,078▲	4,119
Filings / employer	54	10
Rank	#2▲	#10
Top sponsor	Microsoft Corporation	EMC Corporation
Top occupation	Software Developers	Software Developers