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Salaries / Database Administrators / Austin

Database Administrators salaries in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX

Auto-summary H-1B filings: DOL disclosure data Prevailing wages: DOL wage year 2026-27

Employers filed 189 certified H-1B applications for database administrators in the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX area (July 2025 to June 2026), from 116 employers.

The middle half of offers were $88,000 to $134,500 a year, with a median of $111,000: 3% below the national median for this job ($115,000).

The most common wage level was Level II (46% of filings).

The 2026-27 prevailing wage floor here is $75,629 at Level I and $96,429 at Level II.

25th percentile$88,000
Median offer$111,000
75th percentile$134,500
National median$115,000

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Wage levels

DOL sets four wage levels by experience. The share of filings at each level, and the minimum the employer must pay for that level here.

LevelShare of filingsPrevailing wage (minimum)
Level I (entry)6%$75,629
Level II (qualified)46%$96,429
Level III (experienced)22%$117,208
Level IV (fully competent)25%$138,008

Who sponsors database administrators here

EmployerH-1B filingsMedian offerGreen card filings (PERM, this job, US)
Ernst & Young U.S. LLP21$132,500—
Amazon.com Services LLC7$99,500—
Everest Consulting Group Inc.7$87,500—
Infosys Limited5$87,500—
Informatica LLC4$122,5002
Tata Consultancy Services Limited4$87,5001
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.4$111,0004
Google LLC4$148,000—
Synaptein Solutions, Inc.3$140,000—
Visa Technology & Operations LLC3$134,5006
Wise Equation Solutions Inc.3$88,0001
Nivid Infotech, Inc.3$87,5001
Ameritech Global Inc.3$87,500—
Dell USA L.P.2$190,000—
eClinicalWorks LLC2$135,0003

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Common titles filed under this occupation: Database Administrator, Data Engineer, Senior Database Administrator, Database Engineer, Data Analyst, Infrastructure Consultant 2, Senior Data Engineer, Manager Jc50 - Database Administrators.

About this data

Offers are the wages employers put on certified Labor Condition Applications (LCAs) for H-1B workers: Certified H-1B LCAs decided July 2025 to June 2026. An LCA is filed before a petition, so not every filing became a job, and pay excludes bonus and stock. Annual pay; hourly offers are multiplied by 2,080. Pages appear only where there were at least 100 filings. Source: DOL disclosure data and OFLC wage data. Not legal or financial advice.