The United States grants work visas to foreigners every year, however, they are focused on specific occupations.
Find out which are the ten jobs with the highest number of applications from foreigners and what are the average salaries they offer.
- Software and mobile application developer: This occupation offers salaries an average of $ 48.84 per hour and more than 27 thousand applications are made per year.
- Software developer, system software: This profession has an average salary of $ 53.73 per hour, and 9 thousand 93 applications were received in the year in which the report was made.
- Computer systems analyst: With 8,430 applications and an average salary of $ 44.70 an hour.
- Landscaping workers: 4,613 applications and $ 12.85 per hour.
- Information systems managers: 3,953 applications, with a salary of $ 70.26 an hour.
- Electronics Engineers: 3,866 applications and pay of $ 48.43 per hour.
7. Marketing managers: 3,115 requests and $ 67.31 an hour.
8. Computer positions: 2,500 applications and $ 44.61 per hour.
9. Financial managers: 2,293 requests and $ 71.50 per hour, the highest on the list, which is equivalent to more than 1,400 Mexican pesos.
10. Accountants and auditors: 2,241 requests and payments of $ 35.99 per hour.
On the other hand, software and application developers, industrial engineers and computer systems analysts are the three most requested occupations by Mexicans in the United States, and the most accepted visa for Mexican workers is the H-1B.
Additionally, the top three cities where H-1B migrants work are New York, Philadelphia and Chicago.
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
https://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/annual_report.cfm
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/performance
https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ETA/oflc/pdfs/OFLC_Annual_Report_FY2016.pdf
