KSL.com reports the ski industry uses about 8,000 J-1 visas. Overall America’s roughly 460 ski resorts hire about 100,000 seasonal workers each fall. I ran this by a mathematician friend and he crunched the numbers and said that J-1’s make up 8% of the seasonal workforce. Thanks Count Dracula.
We at Unofficial have made many lifelong friendships with skiers and snowboarders brought to the states through the J-1 Program and cherish the opportunity for cultural exchange and sharing the experience of our nation’s alpine treasures.