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Austin, TX

Austin, TX is a Professional & Technical Services-heavy labor market: 1,309 tracked employers at a $140,000 median H-1B wage across 39,320 LCAs.

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1,309
Employers
$140,000
Median H-1B wage
39,320
H-1B filings

Austin, TX: 1,309 tracked employers at a $140,000 median H-1B wage across 39,320 LCAs; Professional & Technical Services leads the local roster.

According to DOL OFLC H-1B disclosures, OSHA injury logs, and state WARN Act notices mapped to worksites in Austin, TX (TX), PlainEmployers rolls up 1,309 employers at a $140,000 disclosed median with 48 employers carrying WARN history. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.

  • 1,309 employers
  • $140,000 median H-1B
  • 39,320 H-1B LCAs
  • 48 WARN employers

Where Austin, TX's median H-1B wage sits nationally

Metro median disclosed wage vs every credible H-1B wage row

$140,000 Top 38% higher than 62% of 272,125 credible H-1B wage rows

$0–$20,000: 1 credible H-1B wage rows (0%). Below this entry. $20,000–$40,000: 401 credible H-1B wage rows (0%). Below this entry. $40,000–$60,000: 7,591 credible H-1B wage rows (3%). Below this entry. $60,000–$80,000: 24,066 credible H-1B wage rows (9%). Below this entry. $80,000–$100,000: 43,829 credible H-1B wage rows (16%). Below this entry. $100,000–$120,000: 49,740 credible H-1B wage rows (18%). Below this entry. $120,000–$140,000: 42,626 credible H-1B wage rows (16%). Below this entry. $140,000–$160,000: 33,306 credible H-1B wage rows (12%). This entry sits in this band. $160,000–$180,000: 22,983 credible H-1B wage rows (8%). Above this entry. $180,000–$200,000: 15,711 credible H-1B wage rows (6%). Above this entry. $200,000–$220,000: 10,825 credible H-1B wage rows (4%). Above this entry. $220,000–$240,000: 6,806 credible H-1B wage rows (3%). Above this entry. $240,000–$260,000: 4,579 credible H-1B wage rows (2%). Above this entry. $260,000–$280,000: 2,975 credible H-1B wage rows (1%). Above this entry. $280,000–$300,000: 1,671 credible H-1B wage rows (1%). Above this entry. $300,000–$320,000: 5,015 credible H-1B wage rows (2%). Above this entry. Austin, TX $0 $320,000 every credible H-1B wage row, bucketed by value

Each bar is a $20K-wide band; taller bars hold more credible H-1B wage rows. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source DOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification, H-1B Disclosure Data · August 2026

Metro Labor Presence

Austin, TX (1,309 employers) sits beside Houston, TX, Plano, TX, Irving, TX in TX's tracked roster. Open a peer metro to compare H-1B wage and WARN density. Among metros with employers in this corpus, Austin, TX ranks #4 of 6906 by employer count (about the 100th percentile).

Houston, TX 1,370 Plano, TX 1,025 Irving, TX 944 Dallas, TX 905 Frisco, TX 610 Mckinney, TX 378
Top industries Professional & Technical ServicesManufacturingInformation & MediaFinance & InsuranceHealthcare & Social Assistance

What the data says about Austin, TX

Corpus placement: Austin, TX ranks #4 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 100th percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 580 of 1,309 tracked employers (~44%); next sectors in the mix are Manufacturing and Information & Media. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: Google LLC, Capgemini America INC, and NVIDIA Corporation (9,685 filings combined, ~25% 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 NVIDIA Corporation, together 9,685 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 44% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.

Google LLC plus Capgemini America INC account for about 25% 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 (1,370 employers); Plano, TX (1,025 employers); Irving, TX (944 employers). Employer-count gaps between these metros are why a wage offer that looks high in one city can look ordinary in another.

WARN layoff activity in Austin, TX

48 tracked employers with a worksite here have filed 405 WARN notices , naming about 31,517 workers across credible records. Compare those employers' profiles before treating any local offer as stable; see largest WARN layoffs for corpus-wide notices.

Top employers in Austin, TX

#EmployerH-1B filingsMedian wage
1Google LLCProfessional & Technical Services5,397$193,915
2Capgemini America INCProfessional & Technical Services2,299$131,748
3NVIDIA CorporationManufacturing1,989$189,066
4IBM CorporationProfessional & Technical Services1,558$157,316
5Cisco Systems, Inc.Manufacturing1,167$148,800
6Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.Manufacturing1,150$152,506
7Adobe Inc.Professional & Technical Services1,071$177,064
8TT Commerce & Global Services LLC901$195,843
9Amazon Data Services, IncInformation & Media763$142,200
10People Tech Group, IncProfessional & Technical Services562$117,749
11Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.Manufacturing552$154,606
12Bytedance INC.Administrative & Waste Services548$210,000
13Expedia, Inc.Information & Media412$149,240
14Applied Materials, Inc.Manufacturing342$155,251
15At&T Services, INC.340$167,126
16V-Soft Consulting Group, INCProfessional & Technical Services308$105,500
17McKinsey & Company, Inc. United States303$192,000
18Htc Global Services INC.Professional & Technical Services302$109,283
19Humana Inc.Management of Companies284$140,754
20Arm, Inc.Manufacturing283$143,437
21Intellectt, INC.Professional & Technical Services272$108,160
22Charles Schwab & Company, Inc.Finance & Insurance266$155,995
23Visa Technology & Operations LLC239$150,467
24Visa U.S.A. Inc.219$153,109
25Cadence Design Systems, Inc.Manufacturing212$155,168
Sources, citation, and related links for Austin, TX

Disclaimer: The Austin, TX overview is informational only and is not professional advice. Consult a qualified professional before employment, hiring, or compliance decisions based on this data.

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PlainEmployers renders Austin, TX from DOL H-1B disclosure filings, OSHA Injury Tracking Application records and state WARN Act layoff notices, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.