{"id":674,"date":"2026-08-15T14:20:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T19:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/?p=674"},"modified":"2026-08-15T14:23:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T19:23:04","slug":"a-1-3-billion-staff-augmentation-pipeline-across-texas-state-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/a-1-3-billion-staff-augmentation-pipeline-across-texas-state-agencies\/","title":{"rendered":"A $1.3 Billion Staff Augmentation Pipeline Across Texas State Agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on the TWC 2026 vendor list published this week, we ran the same H-1B cross-reference against Staff Augmentation contracts at every Texas state agency going back to 2013 \u2014 5,853 contracts worth $1.346 billion, with the Health and Human Services Commission alone accounting for 44% of it. Of the 60 largest vendors, 29 are certified H-1B sponsors, several of them H-1B dependent staffing shops where 80-100% of their own LCA filings are for H-1B workers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/tx_staff_augmentation_h1b_sponsors.php\">https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/tx_staff_augmentation_h1b_sponsors.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The full 5,853-contract dataset is also browsable and exportable by agency, vendor, and status:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/tx_staff_augmentation_contracts.php\">https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/tx_staff_augmentation_contracts.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on the TWC 2026 vendor list published this week, we ran the same H-1B cross-reference against Staff Augmentation contracts at every Texas state agency going back to 2013 \u2014 5,853 contracts worth $1.346 billion, with the Health and Human Services Commission alone accounting for 44% of it. Of the 60 largest vendors, 29 &#8230; <a title=\"A $1.3 Billion Staff Augmentation Pipeline Across Texas State Agencies\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/a-1-3-billion-staff-augmentation-pipeline-across-texas-state-agencies\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about A $1.3 Billion Staff Augmentation Pipeline Across Texas State Agencies\">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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-h-1b","category-texas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","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=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guestworkervisas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}