Industry comparison

Wholesale Trade vs Educational Services

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

Summary

Educational Services and Wholesale Trade represent distinct H-1B sponsorship patterns. Educational Services leads significantly on petition volume with 613,346 total H-1B filings across 6,945 employers, reflecting the sector's reliance on foreign talent for faculty, researchers, and specialized academic roles. Wholesale Trade, by contrast, filed 118,161 H-1B petitions—roughly one-fifth the volume—but sponsors those positions across 7,818 employers, indicating a wider but shallower distribution of H-1B use.

The comparison reveals that Educational Services concentrates H-1B sponsorship among fewer, larger employers with higher per-employer filing rates, while Wholesale Trade spreads petitions across a larger employer base. Educational Services dominates absolute H-1B activity, reflecting its labor model and the visa's role in recruiting international talent to academic institutions.

Educational Services vs Wholesale Trade H-1B
H-1B filings by sector
Educational Services H-1B sponsor
Wholesale Trade H-1B
sector comparison H-1B

Sector A

Wholesale Trade

NAICS 42Rank #9

Sector B

Educational Services

NAICS 61Rank #4

Key metrics

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

Metric	Wholesale Trade	Educational Services
Total filings	118,161	613,346▲
National share %	1.27%	6.57%▲
Distinct sponsors	7,818▲	6,945
Filings / employer	15	88
Rank	#9	#4▲
Top sponsor	Dell Marketing L.P.	University of Michigan
Top occupation	Software Developers	Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary

Filings by fiscal year

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

Wholesale Trade

Time series
Period	Value
FY2010	7,558
FY2011	6,511
FY2012	6,434
FY2013	6,584
FY2014	7,128
FY2015	7,692
FY2016	8,054
FY2017	7,652
FY2018	7,960
FY2019	8,069
FY2020	6,028
FY2021	8,904
FY2022	6,766
FY2023	6,670
FY2024	6,255
FY2025	7,627
FY2026	2,269

Educational Services

Time series
Period	Value
FY2010	39,175
FY2011	34,146
FY2012	35,379
FY2013	34,165
FY2014	33,842
FY2015	34,126
FY2016	34,254
FY2017	32,741
FY2018	34,175
FY2019	34,638
FY2020	29,870
FY2021	48,175
FY2022	36,695
FY2023	46,343
FY2024	41,453
FY2025	45,692
FY2026	18,477