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Senior Software Engineer in Austin, TX

Job title · Austin, Texas

Job title as filed
Senior Software Engineer
City
Austin, Texas
Applications FY2022–FY2026
858
Median offered wage
$139,152
Most common occupation
Software Developers
Median wage$139,152certified LCAs
Year by year
Data as at 30 Jun 2026
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Applications year by year

Labor condition applications with the job title "Senior Software Engineer" and a worksite in Austin.

Applications by fiscal year

120239FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
120239FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026*
Data table
FY2022239
FY2023144
FY2024158
FY2025188
FY2026*129
Certified (decided applications)
99.5%
Employers filing
311
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

Employers

Employers filing for this title in this city.

Applications by employer
  1. Roku, Inc.53
  2. Indeed, Inc.36
  3. General Motors Company27
  4. Paypal, Inc.25
  5. Cox Automotive Corporate Services, LLC22
  6. MVK Technologies Inc16
  7. Visa Technology & Operations LLC16
  8. Q2 Software, Inc.16
  9. Arm, Inc.16
  10. Epam Systems, Inc16
  11. Optum Services, Inc.15
  12. Microsoft Corporation15
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

Pay

Offered annual wage on certified applications, FY2022–FY2026.

Offered annual wage, 10th to 90th percentile (certified LCAs)

Median $139,152; middle half $122,066 to $157,994 · median prevailing wage $127,504 (marker) · 836 applications.

$100k$120k$140k$160k$180k
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Prevailing wage level
  1. Level I8
  2. Level II203
  3. Level III324
  4. Level IV289
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

Across the United States

Nationwide, the job title "Senior Software Engineer" appears on 39,714 labor condition applications since FY2022, filed by 5,607 employers for worksites in 1,704 cities; the median offered wage is $140,920, so the median in Austin is 1.3% below it.

Applications nationwide, FY2022–FY2026
39,714
Employers nationwide
5,607
Cities with filings
1,704
National median offered wage
$140,920
Share of national filings in Austin
2.2%
Cities with the most applications for Senior Software Engineer
  1. San Francisco, CA2,179
  2. New York City, NY1,919
  3. Sunnyvale, CA1,559
  4. Bentonville, AR1,175
  5. Charlotte, NC1,103
  6. San Jose, CA972
  7. Mountain View, CA942
  8. Seattle, WA910
  9. Irving, TX879
  10. Austin, TX858
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

The Austin job market

Austin has 64,412 H-1B and E-3 labor condition applications since FY2022 across 13,288 job titles and 6,594 employers; "Senior Software Engineer" ranks #4 by applications, with 1.3% of them.

Applications in Austin, all job titles
64,412
Job titles filed
13,288
Rank of Senior Software Engineer in Austin
4
Median offered wage in Austin, all job titles
$122,906
National median wage, Software Developers (all job titles)
$127,754
Other job titles in Austin
  1. Software Engineer2,870
  2. Software Developer2,341
  3. Software Development Engineer II871
  4. Component Design Engineer663
  5. Software Development Engineer I622
  6. Architect574
  7. Software Development Engineer524
  8. Data Engineer500
  9. Software Dev Engineer II367
  10. Software Engineering Applications363
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC — Labor Condition Application disclosure dataData as at 30 Jun 2026

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