Far more Americans employed than H1-B visa holders. Just like there are far too many Putinsky Russian harasser bots posing as Americans to psyops to try to get rioting in the streets.
More likely to get Tomahawk missles instead! 😅🤣😅
Approximately 163 million employed people in the U.S. (vast majority U.S. citizens) vs. an estimated 600,000–800,000 active H-1B visa holders (commonly cited around 700,000).19165
Overall U.S. Employment (Latest BLS Data, as of May 2026)
•Total employed: 162.8 million (nonfarm payroll/establishment survey; household survey figures are similar, around 163 million).
•This includes U.S. citizens (native-born naturalized), lawful permanent residents, temporary visa holders (like H-1B), and others.
•U.S. citizens make up the overwhelming share — native-born workers (nearly all citizens) plus naturalized citizens (part of the foreign-born group) account for roughly 80–85% of the workforce. Foreign-born workers overall were about 19.1% of the civilian labor force in 2025 (BLS), but this group includes both naturalized citizens and non-citizens. Non-citizen temporary workers like H-1B holders are a small subset.38
H-1B visa holders are all employed by definition (the visa requires a sponsoring U.S. job offer in a specialty occupation). They represent roughly 0.4% of total U.S. employment.
H-1B Visa Holders Specifically
•Active/employed H-1B population: Estimates from government analyses, think tanks (e.g., NFAP), and recent reports place it at ~700,000 in 2025–early 2026 (range commonly 600,000–800,000). This stock figure accounts for the 3- or 6-year visa duration, extensions, and renewals — not just the annual ~85,000 new cap-subject visas.528
•USCIS data shows ~400,000 H-1B petitions approved in FY2024 (mostly renewals/extensions, not new workers), with similar trends into FY2025–2026.3
•Older USCIS estimate (2019) was ~583,000; the figure has grown modestly with program demand.35
Context for Tech/STEM (Relevant to H-1B Debate)
H-1B visas are heavily concentrated in computer-related occupations (≈60–65% of approvals in recent years, median salary ~$124,000).29 Foreign-born workers (including H-1B and others) are overrepresented in computer/mathematical occupations compared to their share of the overall workforce, but exact citizen vs. H-1B splits in tech require occupation-specific BLS USCIS cross-data (H-1B remains a small absolute number even there).
Bottom line: U.S. citizens dominate total employment by orders of magnitude (hundreds of millions vs. hundreds of thousands on H-1B). H-1B holders fill targeted specialty roles, mostly in tech/professional services, but they are a tiny fraction of the overall employed population. Data comes from BLS (employment) and USCIS/NFAP analyses (H-1B stock); exact real-time H-1B counts aren’t published because of extensions, transfers, and status changes.