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Staff Engineer salary in Texas

A real-employer view of Staff Engineer pay, clustered from DOL OFLC certified filings. Variants like Senior, Lead, and II/III titles fold into this cluster — the wage range below reflects all of them.

Adrian Serafin, founder and editor of RateOrchardBy Adrian SerafinFounderUpdated May 4, 2026
Real disclosed salaries

Staff Engineer in Texas: actual employer-disclosed pay

Public records from 102 certified H-1B Labor Condition Applications filed with the U.S. Department of Labor. Median offered wage: $85,000. Every figure below is an actual offered salary an employer attested to under federal law.

By DOL wage level

DOL classifies every offer into one of four wage levels based on the role's experience and skill requirements.

LevelFilingsMedian offer
Level I — entry42$76,450
Level II — qualified29$88,254
Level III — experienced10$112,204
Level IV — fully competent7$121,477

Top employers filing for this role

Companies with the most certified filings for Staff Engineer in Texas. Median offer is across all of that employer's filings.

EmployerMost-filed titleFilingsMedian
Terracon Consultants, Inc.Staff Engineer11$85,000
Freese and Nichols, Inc.Engineer III8$86,154
Pape-Dawson Consulting Engineers, LLCEngineer I6$79,655
AtkinsRealis USA Inc.Sr Engineer I5$105,000
HVJ Associates, IncStaff Engineer3$83,000
THORNTON TOMASETTI, INC.Senior Engineer3$89,000
Stiver Engineering, Inc.Engineer I3$65,000
Allpro Consulting Group, Inc.Staff Engineer3$64,459
RDQ Inc.Engineer II2$106,000
Thornton Tomasetti, Inc.Senior Engineer2$88,000

Recent sample filings

A snapshot of recent certified offers. Each line is a real, public, verifiable record.

  • Engineer II at Pape-Dawson Consulting Engineers, LLC
    $80,000
    AustinDecided Dec 30, 2025I-200-25356-502327
  • Engineer I at Brand Shared Services, LLC
    $80,000
    HoustonDecided Dec 19, 2025I-200-25346-479499
  • Engineer at STV Incorporated
    $89,488
    DallasDecided Dec 18, 2025I-200-25345-477190
  • Engineer III at Freese and Nichols, Inc.
    $89,981
    HoustonDecided Dec 17, 2025I-200-25344-472140
  • Engineer II at Sabre Communications Corp
    $90,000
    ConroeDecided Dec 16, 2025I-200-25343-468219
  • Engineer III at Freese and Nichols, Inc.
    $89,981
    HoustonDecided Dec 8, 2025I-200-25335-446411
  • Senior Engineer II at AtkinsRealis USA Inc.
    $128,079
    LeanderDecided Dec 4, 2025I-200-25331-442774
  • Senior Staff Engineer at Terracon Consultants, Inc.
    $89,320
    AustinDecided Nov 26, 2025I-200-25323-423219

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Foreign Labor Certification. Disclosed wages reflect what employers attested to pay; actual paid wages may differ. Only certified filings are shown — denied and withdrawn cases are excluded.