Employment scorecards tracking monthly job creation and manufacturing trends, plus search and analysis tools built on publicly available government records — Texas payroll, payments, procurement contracts, tax exemptions, a full U.S. federal employee roster, and 19 years of H-1B visa petition data.
Search individual state employee records by name, agency, job class, ethnicity, and salary range. Drill into the full workforce with live filtering.
Browse all Texas state agencies ranked by workforce size. See full payroll totals, average salaries, and employee counts broken down by classification.
Browse employee and salary records at Texas public colleges and universities, ranked by workforce size. Drill into any institution's departments, job titles, and demographics — with a leadership badge flagging Presidents, Provosts, Deans, and Chief Officers.
Browse the entire Texas state workforce sorted by annual compensation. Visual salary bars make it easy to see the full range of pay across all agencies and job titles.
Generates a live PDF report showing how state salaries are distributed by ethnicity across five pay brackets — from under $50K to $200K and above.
Search the state computer services payment register. Find every payment made to technology vendors and service providers across all Texas state agencies.
Monthly Texas Comptroller expenditure data broken down by agency, category, and vendor — with a dedicated view of what's paid to each Texas public university, so you can see the totals for yourself and dig into individual line items.
Search organizations holding sales tax, franchise tax, or hotel occupancy tax exemptions issued by the Texas Comptroller. Includes geocoded map view.
Search and browse Texas state procurement contracts by agency, vendor, or subject. Click any Contract ID to view the associated documents on the state's contract management system.
Month-by-month job creation, unemployment, and native-born vs. foreign-born employment trends pulled live from FRED and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Month-by-month manufacturing employment trends — total, durable goods, and nondurable goods — updated automatically via the FRED API with data back to 2007.
Counting monthly "wins" hides the real signal, since the two groups aren't close to the same size. This compares each group's actual share of monthly job gains against the share they'd get if hiring simply matched their existing share of the workforce.
Monthly job creation and unemployment trends alongside native-born vs. foreign-born employment share and month-over-month gains, pulled live from FRED and BLS.
The full monthly record behind the scorecard, column by column, searchable and exportable back to Jan 2007 — plus a tool to compare any two months side by side.
Explore 38 years of nonimmigrant visa issuances by classification — from H-1B and L-1 to B1/B2 and F-1. Annual totals, per-class trend lines, and year-by-year breakdowns from 1987 through 2024.
Every Trade Adjustment Assistance petition filed with the Department of Labor, filterable by destination country, state, year, and certification outcome. The DOL's own public petition system (PAWS) was fully decommissioned in May 2025 — this is one of the only places left to see this data.
Search 19 years of H-1B Labor Condition Application records disclosed by the Department of Labor — over 10 million filings from 2008 through 2026. Search by employer, job title, worksite, secondary employer, law firm, wage, and more.
Certified, denied, withdrawn — broken down year by year, with a nationwide composition bar across all 10.8 million records. 86.5% of every LCA ever filed has been certified; denials have fallen from over 20% in 2009 to under 1% in recent years.
Cross-references every Texas state contractor paid under "Professional Service and Fees" against H-1B LCA filings from 2020 through 2026, so you can see which state-paid vendors also sponsor H-1B workers — how many filings, how many worker positions, and what share of their disclosed worksites are actually in Texas.
Search 18 years of H-2A temporary agricultural worker petitions — 1,275,703 records from 2008 through 2025. Search by employer, crop, job title, worksite, wage, and housing state. See which farms are importing the most workers and which crops drive the most demand.
Search 18 years of H-2B temporary non-agricultural worker petitions — 2008 through 2025. Landscaping, hospitality, construction, seafood processing. Search by employer, job title, worksite, and wage across 8 distinct schema generations.
Search 18 years of PERM permanent labor certification applications — the pathway to a green card through employment. DOL ETA disclosure data by employer, occupation, prevailing wage, education requirements, and country of citizenship.
Every employer filing certified H-1B petitions at Prevailing Wage Level I — the lowest entry-level tier — named and ranked. 33,755 certified LCAs from 8,018 employers across FY2026 Q1 & Q2. Click any employer to drill down to their individual filings.
Every school, university, college, K-12 district, and educational institution filing H-1B petitions in FY2026 — named and ranked. They train American students, collect their tuition, then import foreign workers rather than hire the graduates they just educated.
Every federal agency, DOE national lab, state department, public school district, and city government filing H-1B petitions in FY2026 — funded by your tax dollars, importing foreign workers. Filter by entity type: federal, labs, schools, state, or local.
Cognizant places H-1B workers at 539 different American companies. Tata at 485. At the same prevailing wage level, Indian IT outsourcing firms pay workers $66,016 less per year than direct tech employers. The H-1B scam — exposed in the data. Includes Norm Matloff's "good guys who aren't" analysis of Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft.
Bank of America. Apple. Fidelity. Google. The American corporations using H-1B body shops to import foreign workers — named, ranked, and exposed. Cisco and Google each use 9 body shops simultaneously. Bank of America uses 7. See every company, their placement counts, and which outsourcers they use.
Search any employer or secondary entity across all 18 years of H-1B data — 2009 through 2026. See total LCA filings, certification rates, and worker positions by year, then drill down into individual records for any year with one click.
Twelve years of H-1B prevailing wage level data (I–IV), nationwide and by employer. Level I share fell from 46.1% in 2015 to 15.9% in 2026 — but rose again from 14.3% in 2020 to 19.3% in 2025. See the full trend, and check any individual employer's wage level pattern.
Drill into 2 million federal employee records from OPM's FedScope Employment Cube. Navigate from department → agency → sub-element, then filter by state, pay, occupation, veteran status, and more.
All tools and scorecards are built from publicly available government records — the same data the state and federal government publish, made searchable and analyzable. No login required. No paywall.
These tools exist alongside the main GuestWorkerVisas.com analysis because the same question applies at every level: when taxpayer money is spent, or when foreign workers displace American workers, who benefits? The H-1B Historical Search answers that directly with 19 years of DOL petition records, spanning H-1B, H-2A, H-2B, and PERM. The employment scorecards track it nationally via BLS and FRED. The Texas workforce, payment, and contract records answer it at the state level. The U.S. Government Employee Roster extends it to the federal workforce.
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