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Houston, TX

Houston, TX is a Professional & Technical Services-heavy labor market: 1,370 tracked employers at a $122,543 median H-1B wage across 18,394 LCAs.

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1,370
Employers
$122,543
Median H-1B wage
18,394
H-1B filings

Houston, TX: 1,370 tracked employers at a $122,543 median H-1B wage across 18,394 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 Houston, TX (TX), PlainEmployers rolls up 1,370 employers at a $122,543 disclosed median with 20 employers carrying WARN history. Use the metro rollup before judging any single local employer profile.

  • 1,370 employers
  • $122,543 median H-1B
  • 18,394 H-1B LCAs
  • 20 WARN employers

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

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

$122,543 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. Houston, 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

Houston, TX (1,370 employers) sits beside Austin, 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, Houston, TX ranks #3 of 6906 by employer count (about the 100th percentile).

Austin, TX 1,309 Plano, TX 1,025 Irving, TX 944 Dallas, TX 905 Frisco, TX 610 Mckinney, TX 378
Top industries Professional & Technical ServicesManufacturingWholesale TradeMining & ExtractionFinance & Insurance

What the data says about Houston, TX

Corpus placement: Houston, TX ranks #3 of 6906 metros by employer count (about the 100th percentile) in this disclosure window. Sector inventory: Professional & Technical Services leads with 594 of 1,370 tracked employers (~43%); next sectors in the mix are Manufacturing and Wholesale Trade. Largest H-1B sponsors mapped here: Ernst & Young U.S. LLP, Mphasis Corporation, and Boston Consulting Group, Inc. (4,732 filings combined, ~26% of the metro total). Evidence tracks present for Houston, TX: DOL H-1B disclosure filings; OSHA Injury Tracking Application records; state WARN Act layoff notices, including 20 employers with WARN history.

Headline sponsors: Ernst & Young U.S. LLP, Mphasis Corporation, and Boston Consulting Group, Inc., together 4,732 H-1B filings in our dataset. Each links to a full profile with OSHA safety grade, WARN layoff history, and salary breakdown.

Houston, TX reads as a concentrated labor market: Professional & Technical Services alone covers about 43% of tracked employers, so wage and safety benchmarks here are heavily shaped by that sector.

Ernst & Young U.S. LLP plus Mphasis Corporation account for about 26% of Houston, 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 Houston, TX, 20 carry WARN Act history (128 notices, about 9,829 workers named across credible filings). That is a local stability signal separate from H-1B hiring volume.

Within TX, Houston, TX is among denser labor markets versus Austin, TX (1,309 employers); Plano, TX (1,025 employers); Irving, TX (944 employers); its median and mix are less likely to swing on a single filing.

WARN layoff activity in Houston, TX

20 tracked employers with a worksite here have filed 128 WARN notices , naming about 9,829 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 Houston, TX

#EmployerH-1B filingsMedian wage
1Ernst & Young U.S. LLPProfessional & Technical Services2,873$171,258
2Mphasis CorporationProfessional & Technical Services1,434$120,000
3Boston Consulting Group, Inc.Professional & Technical Services425$190,000
4Skilltune Technologies INCProfessional & Technical Services379$95,700
5Hewlett Packard Enterprise CompanyProfessional & Technical Services374$149,365
6Applied Materials, Inc.Manufacturing342$155,251
7Databricks, Inc.Professional & Technical Services333$167,024
8L&T Technology Services LimitedProfessional & Technical Services320$101,005
9SAP America, Inc.Professional & Technical Services312$163,419
10Insight Global, LLCAdministrative & Waste Services245$128,752
11Decision Six IncProfessional & Technical Services199$92,394
12Baylor College of MedicineEducational Services177$70,000
13The University Of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer CenterEducational Services171$119,311
14Natsoft CORPORATIONProfessional & Technical Services164$131,602
15Texas A&M UniversityEducational Services156$86,502
16Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.Information & Media107$131,227
17Citigroup Global Markets Inc.Finance & Insurance106$200,000
18The University of Texas Health Science Center at HoustonEducational Services101$72,010
19Bofa Securities, INC.Finance & Insurance98$200,000
20Schlumberger Technology CorporationMining & Extraction97$129,350
21Pricewaterhousecoopers LLPProfessional & Technical Services95$148,000
22Fred Hutchinson Cancer CenterHealthcare & Social Assistance94$88,691
23Birlasoft Solutions, Inc.Professional & Technical Services93$117,000
24Kiewit Engineering Group Inc.Construction87$99,069
25The Methodist Hospital Research InstituteProfessional & Technical Services87$74,767
Sources, citation, and related links for Houston, TX

Disclaimer: The Houston, 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 Houston, 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.