Industry comparison

Wholesale Trade vs Retail Trade (general)

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

Summary

Retail Trade and Wholesale Trade represent distinct sectors in H-1B sponsorship patterns. Retail Trade dominates by filing volume, with 161,910 H-1B filings across 1,806 employers, while Wholesale Trade accounts for 42,250 filings from a notably larger employer base of 4,119 companies.

Retail Trade's higher filing count reflects concentrated H-1B sponsorship activity, averaging roughly 90 filings per employer. In contrast, Wholesale Trade's filings are distributed across a much broader set of employers, averaging approximately 10 filings per employer. This suggests Retail Trade has more intensive H-1B recruitment strategies among a smaller set of participating companies, while Wholesale Trade draws from a more dispersed network of smaller-scale sponsors.

Retail Trade H-1B filings
Wholesale Trade H-1B sponsorship
H-1B sector comparison
Retail vs Wholesale H-1B
NAICS H-1B employer data
H-1B filing volume by industry

Sector A

Wholesale Trade

NAICS 42Rank #10

Sector B

Retail Trade (general)

NAICS 45Rank #6

Key metrics

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

Metric	Wholesale Trade	Retail Trade (general)
Total filings	42,250	161,910▲
National share %	1.10%	4.23%▲
Distinct sponsors	4,119▲	1,806
Filings / employer	10	90
Rank	#10	#6▲
Top sponsor	EMC Corporation	AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC (WA)
Top occupation	Software Developers	Software Developers