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Brownsville, TX

Brownsville, TX is a Manufacturing-heavy labor market: 9 tracked employers at a $122,828 median H-1B wage across 137 LCAs.

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9
Employers
$122,828
Median H-1B wage
137
H-1B filings

Brownsville, TX: 9 tracked employers at a $122,828 median H-1B wage across 137 LCAs; Manufacturing leads the local roster.

According to DOL OFLC H-1B disclosures, OSHA injury logs, and state WARN Act notices mapped to worksites in Brownsville, TX (TX), PlainEmployers rolls up 9 employers at a $122,828 disclosed median with 2 employers carrying WARN history. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.

  • 9 employers
  • $122,828 median H-1B
  • 137 H-1B LCAs
  • 2 WARN employers

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

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

$122,828 Top 51% higher than 49% 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%). This entry sits in this band. $140,000–$160,000: 33,306 credible H-1B wage rows (12%). Above this entry. $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. Brownsville, 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

Brownsville, TX (9 employers) sits beside Houston, TX, Austin, TX, Plano, 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, Brownsville, TX ranks #1072 of 6906 by employer count (about the 83rd percentile).

Houston, TX 1,370 Austin, TX 1,309 Plano, TX 1,025 Irving, TX 944 Dallas, TX 905 Frisco, TX 610
Top industries ManufacturingPublic AdministrationProfessional & Technical ServicesHealthcare & Social AssistanceEducational Services

What the data says about Brownsville, TX

Corpus placement: Brownsville, TX ranks #1072 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 83rd percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Manufacturing leads with 4 of 9 tracked employers (~44%); next sectors in the mix are Educational Services and Healthcare & Social Assistance. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: The University Of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Ellucian Company LLC, and NextDecade LNG LLC (110 filings combined, ~80% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Brownsville, TX: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records; state WARN Act layoff notices, including 2 employers with WARN history.

Headline sponsors: The University Of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Ellucian Company LLC, and NextDecade LNG LLC, together 110 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.

Brownsville, TX reads as a concentrated labor market: Manufacturing alone covers about 44% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.

The University Of Texas Rio Grande Valley plus Ellucian Company LLC account for about 80% of Brownsville, 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 Brownsville, TX, 2 carry WARN Act history (2 notices, about 303 workers named across credible filings). That is a local stability signal separate from H-1B hiring volume.

Within TX, Brownsville, TX is smaller than peers such as Houston, TX (1,370 employers); Austin, TX (1,309 employers); Plano, TX (1,025 employers); use those pages when you need a denser local sponsor list.

WARN layoff activity in Brownsville, TX

2 tracked employers with a worksite here have filed 2 WARN notices , naming about 303 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 Brownsville, TX

#EmployerH-1B filingsMedian wage
1The University Of Texas Rio Grande ValleyEducational Services67$86,679
2Ellucian Company LLCProfessional & Technical Services25$123,121
3NextDecade LNG LLCManufacturing18$182,000
4Space Exploration Technologies Corp.Manufacturing18$140,000
5HNI Medical ServicesHealthcare & Social Assistance3$290,797
6Calvary Robotics, Inc.2$115,726
7Seatrium AmFELS, Inc.Manufacturing2$71,927
8Cameron CountyPublic Administration1$63,000
9Trico Products CorporationManufacturing1$150,000
Sources, citation, and related links for Brownsville, TX

Disclaimer: The Brownsville, 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 Brownsville, 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.