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Texas State Agency Deep Dive · June 9, 2026

Texas Dept. of Transportation
Workforce & H-1B Analysis

TxDOT has long been a reliable path from working-class Texas into the middle class — stable government careers in engineering, IT, and administration. This report documents the current employee workforce composition alongside 132 H-1B workers placed at TxDOT by outside vendors in FY2026, asking who those jobs were meant for.

13,575
State Employees
$74,838
Avg Annual Salary
132
H-1B Workers (FY2026)
13
H-1B Sponsoring Vendors
$91,488
H-1B Avg Wage

For generations, a job at TxDOT meant something. It meant your kids could go to college. It meant a pension and health insurance in a state that doesn't offer much of either. It was one of the clearest on-ramps into the middle class available to working Texans — Black, Hispanic, White, and Native American families alike built careers there.

The data below shows that 132 H-1B workers are currently placed at TxDOT through 13 outside staffing and consulting firms. The largest single vendor, CGI Technologies, holds 100 petitions — 50 filed each quarter — all for the same job title at the same wage. Those are IT positions that Texas workers could fill. Nobody in Austin, San Antonio, or El Paso got a phone call first.

TxDOT Payroll — Current State Employees
13,575
Employees on Payroll
$74,838
Average Annual Salary
$1,015,921,291
Total Annual Payroll
$344,000
Highest Salary
54.7%
White / Non-Hispanic
31.1%
Hispanic / Latino
8.2%
Black / African American
4.1%
Asian
Employee Ethnicity Composition
Employee Count by Ethnicity
Average Salary by Ethnicity
Salary Band Distribution by Ethnicity
Ethnicity Detail
EthnicityEmployees% of AgencyAvg SalaryShare
WHITE 7,428 54.7% $75,392
HISPANIC 4,216 31.1% $72,502
BLACK 1,110 8.2% $74,177
ASIAN 559 4.1% $89,881
OTHER 179 1.3% $69,016
AM INDIAN 83 0.6% $63,977
Salary Band × Ethnicity
Ethnicity<$50K$50–75K$75–100K$100–150K>$150KTotal
WHITE 394 4,455 1,469 873 233 7,428
HISPANIC 381 2,482 819 451 80 4,216
BLACK 71 670 213 138 18 1,110
ASIAN 36 162 150 195 14 559
OTHER 25 100 28 25 1 179
AM INDIAN 8 63 9 3 0 83
H-1B Vendor Placements at TxDOT — FY2026 Q1 & Q2
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132 H-1B workers placed at TxDOT by 13 outside vendors in FY2026
None of these workers are direct TxDOT employees. They are employed by staffing and consulting firms that have filed H-1B petitions naming TxDOT facilities as the work site. The agency — funded by Texas taxpayers — is the end client. Texas workers were not required to be considered first. Data source: DOL LCA Disclosure Data FY2026 Q1 & Q2.
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CGI Technologies holds 100 of the 132 petitions — 76% of all H-1B placements
CGI filed 50 identical petitions in Q1 and 50 more in Q2, all for "Software Quality/Test Engineer" at Level II at $87,672/year. This is a major IT contract — these are career-level technology jobs that were never advertised to Texas workers through any public job posting requirement.
Vendor / Sponsor H-1B Workers Avg Wage Job Titles Level Quarter(s)
CGI Technologies and Solutions Inc.
100 identical petitions — 50 per quarter. Largest single H-1B presence at TxDOT.
 100 $87,672 Software Quality/Test Engineer II Q1+Q2
Genome International Corporation 6 $82,653 Systems Analyst II II Q1/Q2
RIZONTEK, INC.
⚠️ Filed at $47/hr — annualizes to ~$97,760. Listed as hourly; shown here annualized.
 6 $97,760 Systems Analyst II II Q1/Q2
Camelot Integrated Solutions Inc
Remote workers, Liberty Hill TX.
 4 $114,754 GIS Software Developer / Software Developer II Q1/Q2
PIONEER CONSULTING SERVICES LLC
Flower Mound & Celina TX.
 3 $115,461 SQL Server DBA / WEB APPLICATIONS PROGRAMMER II/III Q1/Q2
Archents Inc
Highest-wage petitions on file.
 2 $151,351 Software Developer III III/IV Q2
CYBEROBOTIX TECHNOLOGY, INC. 2 $90,605 Software Engineer II Q1
Kollasoft Inc 2 $105,976 APPLICATION DEVELOPER II Q1/Q2
LORVENK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
Justin TX.
 2 $114,754 APPLICATION DEVELOPER II Q1/Q2
TRANSCEND IT SOLUTIONS LLC. 2 $90,605 SOFTWARE DEVELOPER II Q1
Flexera Global, Inc. 1 $115,000 AWS DevOps Engineer II Q2
SkillzDepot Inc. 1 $114,754 SOFTWARE DEVELOPER 2 II Q2
The University of Texas at Austin
UT Austin as TxDOT worksite.
 1 $85,000 Research Engineering Scientist Associate III I Q1
TOTAL (13 vendors) 132 $91,488 FY2026 Q1 & Q2 combined
H-1B Workers by Vendor (FY2026)
Top 20 TxDOT Job Classifications
Class CodeTitleEmployeesAvg Salary
9306 TRANS MAINT SPEC II 1,257 $54,144
9307 TRANS MAINT SPEC III 990 $58,520
2129 ENGINEERING SPECIALIST III 667 $69,188
2128 ENGINEERING SPECIALIST II 564 $64,841
9309 TRANS MAINT SPEC V 537 $66,353
2130 ENGINEERING SPECIALIST IV 532 $74,912
9305 TRANS MAINT SPEC I 483 $50,535
2127 ENGINEERING SPECIALIST I 468 $58,923
9026 EQUIPMENT OPERATOR I 381 $59,971
2131 ENGINEERING SPECIALIST V 325 $79,914
1623 DIRECTOR IV 314 $136,108
9308 TRANS MAINT SPEC IV 281 $61,777
59 CLERK III 231 $25,405
2156 ENGINEER V 222 $112,327
2157 ENGINEER VI 208 $125,696
2119 ENGINEERING AIDE 206 $22,789
158 ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT V 194 $60,854
156 ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT IV 182 $54,878
2124 ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN II 153 $58,200
2155 ENGINEER IV 139 $102,975
25 Highest-Paid TxDOT Employees
NameTitleEthnicityAnnual Salary
WILLIAMS , MARC EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WHITE $344,000
BARTH , BRIAN DEPUTY DIRECTOR IV WHITE $335,710
HENDRICKSON , BRANDYE DEPUTY DIRECTOR IV WHITE $335,710
ASHER , BENJAMIN PORTFOLIO MANAGER VI WHITE $324,403
JOHNSON , CARL DEPUTY DIRECTOR IV WHITE $320,000
GRAHAM , JEFFREY DEPUTY DIRECTOR IV WHITE $318,636
STEWART , STEPHEN DEPUTY DIRECTOR IV WHITE $306,385
SELISSEN , ANH DEPUTY DIRECTOR IV ASIAN $306,385
DAVIS , JEFFREY DEPUTY DIRECTOR IV WHITE $300,000
BUTLER , JESSICA DEPUTY DIRECTOR III WHITE $288,655
BUR , MOHAMED DEPUTY DIRECTOR III BLACK $288,655
LYKINS , ERIC DEPUTY DIRECTOR III WHITE $288,655
MAYS , CAROLINE DEPUTY DIRECTOR III BLACK $272,934
TOWNSEND , PARSONS DEPUTY DIRECTOR III WHITE $267,750
BLEWETT , REBECCA GENERAL COUNSEL V WHITE $253,931
ANDERSON , DARRAN DEPUTY DIRECTOR III WHITE $250,610
CLEMENS , CEASON DISTRICT ENGINEER WHITE $248,313
GARCIA , ALEJANDRO DEPUTY DIRECTOR III HISPANIC $245,696
ALLBRITTON , THOMAS DISTRICT ENGINEER WHITE $244,800
FERGUSON JR , HAROLD DISTRICT ENGINEER WHITE $244,643
SALAZAR , DAVID DISTRICT ENGINEER HISPANIC $243,444
BENAVIDEZ , CHARLES DISTRICT ENGINEER HISPANIC $241,022
THOMAS , TRENT DEPUTY DIRECTOR II WHITE $227,678
TREVINO , TOMAS DISTRICT ENGINEER HISPANIC $226,937
BOHNE , CHAD DISTRICT ENGINEER WHITE $226,668
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About This Data
Employee payroll data is sourced from the Texas State Auditor's Office. Ethnicity classifications are as recorded in state HR systems. No employee shown here has been identified as an H-1B visa holder — ethnicity data does not indicate immigration or visa status. H-1B data sourced from DOL LCA Disclosure Data FY2026 Q1 (LCA_Disclosure_Data_FY2026_Q1) and Q2 (LCA_Disclosure_Data_FY2026_Q2), filtered to records listing TxDOT or Texas Department of Transportation as the secondary entity or worksite employer. Research by GuestWorkerVisas.com — one independent researcher, 23 years of data.