H-1B LCA Filings in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX
LCA filing records in the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX metro. U.S. Department of Labor disclosure data lists 44,233 Labor Condition Application filings from 7,754 distinct employer filers across the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX metropolitan area. DOL certified 97.2% of those filings, a DOL record status for the prevailing-wage and working-condition attestations. This filing record does not establish a USCIS petition, an approval, a hire, confirmed sponsorship, or a visa outcome.
Where this metro sits in the corpus. Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX ranks #12 of 113 published metro profiles by disclosed LCA filing volume, putting it in the top 11% of the current dataset. The comparison is only about recorded filing volume in this DOL snapshot; it does not estimate local job availability, confirmed sponsorship, visa approvals, or the size of the area’s overall workforce.
A completed-year rebound
The filing series first moved down, from 14,041 in FY2023 to 12,714 in FY2024 (-9%), then rose to 12,998 in FY2025 (+2%). That change in direction is visible in the reported LCAs only; it is not evidence about approvals or local employment conditions.
Filing volume vs. employer-filer breadth. By LCA filing volume, Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX ranks #12 of 113 metros. By count of distinct employer filers, it ranks #9 of 113. The two ranks sit close together, so LCA filing totals and employer-filer breadth move in step here more than in most metros. These are descriptive DOL filing counts only.
Offered wage. Across disclosed LCAs assigned to Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX, the average annualized offered wage is $111,149. That uses the same 15k–1M annualization guard as employer, occupation, and state pages, so a handful of unit-confused rows cannot drag the metro average into the millions.
National-scale filing hub
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX ranks #12 of 113 published metros with 44,233 disclosed LCAs across 7,754 employers (97.2% DOL-certified). That puts it in the top cohort by raw filing volume, a national hub, not a mid-market satellite.
| Peer hub | LCA filings | Employers |
|---|---|---|
| New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ | 226,133 | 25,755 |
| Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX | 166,609 | 14,256 |
| San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA | 160,647 | 7,776 |
| Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA | 120,200 | 6,263 |
| San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA | 111,539 | 11,831 |
LCA Filing Volume by Year
H-1B LCA filings in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX from FY2023 to FY2025
FY2026 is partial data (through Q1). Chart shows completed fiscal years only.
Annual Breakdown
| Year | LCA filings | Certified | Cert Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 14,041 | 13,683 | 97.5% |
| FY2024 | 12,714 | 12,332 | 97% |
| FY2025 | 12,998 | 12,621 | 97.1% |
| FY2026(partial) | 4,480 | 4,377 | 97.7% |
About This Data
H-1B Labor Condition Application (LCA) filing data is sourced from U.S. Department of Labor disclosure files. Data covers fiscal years 2023 through 2026. Metro assignment uses the Census Bureau's July 2023 CBSA county delineation plus principal-city crosswalk; average offered wages use the same 15k–1M annualization sanity band as employer, occupation, and state pages. These records do not establish USCIS petition outcomes, hiring, or actual compensation.
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