Austin, TX

For Austin, TX (TX), PlainEmployers rolls up 999 employers whose federal filings map to this regional labor market at a $134,849 median disclosed H-1B wage across 19,184 H-1B LCAs, with Professional & Technical Services the largest tracked sector (580 employers, ~58% of the local roster). Read these metro figures first, then judge any single local employer against them.

Corpus placement: Austin, TX ranks #4 of 6069 metros by employer count (about the 100th percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 580 of 999 tracked employers (~58%); next sectors in the mix are Manufacturing and Information & Media. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: Google LLC, Capgemini America INC, and IBM Corporation (4,953 filings combined, ~26% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Austin, TX: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records; state WARN Act layoff notices, including 48 employers with WARN history.

Headline sponsors: Google LLC, Capgemini America INC, and IBM Corporation, together 4,953 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.

Austin, TX reads as a concentrated labor market: Professional & Technical Services alone covers about 58% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.

Google LLC plus Capgemini America INC account for about 26% of Austin, TX's H-1B filings in this corpus, so local wage medians are sensitive to those sponsors' role mix.

Among employers with a worksite mapped to Austin, TX, 48 carry WARN Act history (405 notices, about 31,517 workers named across credible filings). That is a local stability signal separate from H-1B hiring volume.

Same-state context for Austin, TX: Houston, TX (1,044 employers); Plano, TX (878 employers); Irving, TX (833 employers). Employer-count gaps between these metros are why a wage offer that looks high in one city can look ordinary in another.