Industry comparison

Professional, Scientific & Technical Services vs Finance & Insurance

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

Summary

Finance & Insurance and Professional, Scientific & Technical Services represent two major H-1B sponsoring sectors in the US economy. Professional Services dominates by volume, with 1,972,263 total H-1B filings across 39,035 employers. Finance & Insurance follows at 305,658 filings from 6,009 employers.

The gap reflects the scale and labor intensity of each sector. Professional Services covers IT, engineering, consulting, and scientific research—fields with heavy reliance on specialized visa sponsorship. Finance & Insurance filings cluster in banking, insurance, and investment roles, which tend to draw fewer H-1B applications relative to employer count, suggesting more localized or domestic hiring patterns in many finance roles.

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Sector A

Professional, Scientific & Technical Services

NAICS 54Rank #1

Sector B

Finance & Insurance

NAICS 52Rank #4

Key metrics

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

Metric	Professional, Scientific & Technical Services	Finance & Insurance
Total filings	1,972,263▲	305,658
National share %	51.47%▲	7.98%
Distinct sponsors	39,035▲	6,009
Filings / employer	51	51
Rank	#1▲	#4
Top sponsor	COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS US CORP	Fidelity Technology Group, LLC
Top occupation	Software Developers	Software Developers