{"id":413,"date":"2026-06-13T14:41:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T19:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/?p=413"},"modified":"2026-06-13T14:41:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T19:41:42","slug":"asian-employees-at-the-texas-workforce-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/asian-employees-at-the-texas-workforce-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Employees at the Texas Workforce Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"><strong>The hire trend chart<\/strong> is one of the more interesting findings: Asian IT hiring at TWC nearly tripled between 2019 and 2022, peaking at 28 hires in 2022 and holding at 23\u201325 per year since. That acceleration coincides with the post-COVID period when H-1B processing backlogs cleared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"><strong>The salary finding<\/strong> cuts both ways \u2014 the $72k Asian average looks good until you see that Hispanic and Black employees, who together are 55% of the workforce, are earning $5,000\u20136,000 below the agency mean while doing the core public-facing work of the agency.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/twc_asian_workforce_report.html\">https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/twc_asian_workforce_report.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hire trend chart is one of the more interesting findings: Asian IT hiring at TWC nearly tripled between 2019 and 2022, peaking at 28 hires in 2022 and holding at 23\u201325 per year since. That acceleration coincides with the post-COVID period when H-1B processing backlogs cleared. The salary finding cuts both ways \u2014 the &#8230; <a title=\"Asian Employees at the Texas Workforce Commission\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/asian-employees-at-the-texas-workforce-commission\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Asian Employees at the Texas Workforce Commission\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tx-government"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}