Metro area · TX
Austin, TX
H-1B hiring, wages and employer concentration across 1,223 employers in the Austin, TX metro.
- 1,223
- Employers
- $134,895
- Median H-1B wage
- 19,180
- H-1B filings
The metro at a glance
Austin, TX, TX aggregates 1,223 tracked employers at a $134,895 median H-1B wage and 19,180 H-1B filings on record, with hiring concentrated in Professional & Technical Services and Information & Media.
- 1,223
- employers
- $134,895
- median H-1B wage
- 19,180
- H-1B filings
- 5
- top industries
What the data says about this metro
Metro pages on PlainEmployers gather every employer whose federal filings tie to a single regional labor market, so you can see where H-1B hiring concentrates, which sectors dominate, and how often layoffs are filed in one place. Every figure below comes from the same three public datasets behind individual profiles, the Department of Labor H-1B disclosures, OSHA injury records, and state WARN Act notices, aggregated across the metro. Use these regional numbers as the backdrop against which any single local employer should be read.
Austin, TX, TX aggregates 1,223 employers at a median disclosed H-1B wage of $134,895, with hiring concentrated in Professional & Technical Services, Information & Media, Manufacturing. The mix is computed from actual DOL/OSHA/WARN filings in this specific metro; see methodology for source documentation.
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.
Metro-area figures sum the employer records tied to this region's labor market, based on WARN Act notices and US Department of Labor data. Geographic boundaries are approximate: a filing is attributed to the metro of the affected worksite, so a multi-site employer may appear across several metros, and remote reductions can be hard to localize. Local economic conditions, seasonal patterns, and the presence of one or two very large employers can all skew a metro's totals. Use these numbers to understand the broad shape of activity in the area, not as a precise census, and consult the individual records and the methodology for the underlying detail.
Employer mix in Austin, TX
Which sectors the metro's tracked employers operate in
- Professional & Technical S…
Professional & Technical Services
579 employers
- Manufacturing 88
Manufacturing
88 employers
- Information & Media 81
Information & Media
81 employers
- Finance & Insurance 77
Finance & Insurance
77 employers
- Healthcare & Social Assist… 27
Healthcare & Social Assistance
27 employers
- Real Estate 21
Real Estate
21 employers
- Retail Trade 18
Retail Trade
18 employers
What this shows Professional & Technical Services is the largest tracked sector in Austin, TX, shaping the metro's wage and hiring profile.
Top employers in Austin, TX
| # | Employer | H-1B filings | Median wage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Google LLC Professional & Technical Services | 2,367 | $355,887 |
| 2 | CAPGEMINI AMERICA INC Professional & Technical Services | 1,420 | $363,409 |
| 3 | IBM Corporation Professional & Technical Services | 1,166 | - |
| 4 | NVIDIA Corporation Manufacturing | 752 | $210,677 |
| 5 | Cisco Systems, Inc. Manufacturing | 510 | $147,817 |
| 6 | Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Manufacturing | 480 | - |
| 7 | BYTEDANCE INC. Administrative & Waste Services | 392 | $220,469 |
| 8 | Amazon Data Services, Inc Information & Media | 343 | $150,039 |
| 9 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Manufacturing | 287 | $168,976 |
| 10 | Adobe Inc. Professional & Technical Services | 284 | $200,809 |
| 11 | Charles Schwab & Company, Inc. Finance & Insurance | 266 | $155,995 |
| 12 | Visa Technology & Operations LLC Finance & Insurance | 224 | $145,066 |
| 13 | Expedia, Inc. Information & Media | 186 | $152,114 |
| 14 | HTC GLOBAL SERVICES INC. Professional & Technical Services | 181 | $109,152 |
| 15 | V-Soft Consulting Group, INC Professional & Technical Services | 164 | $100,091 |
| 16 | People Tech Group, Inc Professional & Technical Services | 160 | $128,620 |
| 17 | Applied Materials, Inc. Manufacturing | 159 | $150,983 |
| 18 | INTELLECTT, INC. Professional & Technical Services | 153 | $98,842 |
| 19 | Visa U.S.A. Inc. Finance & Insurance | 146 | $181,819 |
| 20 | Humana Inc. Management of Companies | 134 | $193,847 |
| 21 | Baylor College of Medicine Educational Services | 130 | $118,331 |
| 22 | The University of Texas at Austin Educational Services | 130 | $94,142 |
| 23 | HEALTH CARE SERVICE CORPORATION Finance & Insurance | 118 | $138,186 |
| 24 | Cadence Design Systems, Inc. Manufacturing | 102 | $219,729 |
| 25 | Quadrant Technologies LLC Professional & Technical Services | 101 | $109,731 |
What this means if you work in Austin, TX
Use Austin, TX's $134,895 median as the local benchmark, H-1B wages are legally tied to each metro's prevailing wage, so the same role pays differently city to city.
- A same-role H-1B offer well below $134,895 is worth questioning, the median here is set by 1,223 tracked employers.
- Google LLC leads local H-1B sponsorship; compare its pay and safety grade against peers before applying. Compare employers
- Check an employer’s WARN layoff history for job-stability risk in this metro. Largest layoffs
Metro figures aggregate worksites by city; a multi-site employer can appear across several metros, and remote roles are hard to localize.