The jobs H-1B workers fill, 2010 to 2025
Computer and mathematical occupations accounted for 351,454 of the 567,907 H-1B applications certified in fiscal year 2025, a 61.9 percent share. Architecture and engineering follows at 56,088, then business and financial operations at 46,673.
How it is measured
Each Labor Condition Application carries a Standard Occupational Classification code for the job. Kitegraph groups certified applications by the code's major group and counts them per federal fiscal year, from the Department of Labor disclosure files. The 2008 and 2009 files predate consistent SOC coding, so occupation figures start in fiscal 2010.
What the chart shows
The treemap is the program's job mix in one frame: software and IT roles fill most of the board, and engineering, business, science, and healthcare share the rest. Computer occupations' share climbed from 48.9 percent of filings in 2010 to a peak of 70.9 percent in 2016, and has eased to 61.9 percent as the mix diversified.
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