NextDecade LNG LLC H-1B wage filings
Houston, TX. Filings decided July 2025 to June 2026.
NextDecade LNG LLC filed 27 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from July 2025 to June 2026. The median wage it offered was $185,000, 29.5% above the government's prevailing wage for the same jobs.
- Filings
- 27
- Positions covered
- 26
- Certified
- 96.3%
- Job titles
- 24
- Worksite cities
- 3
- Filings since FY2020
- 75
- Median offer change since FY2023
- −19%
Offered wage since 2020
NextDecade LNG LLC's median H-1B wage offer fell 19%, from $225,473 in fiscal 2023 to $183,500 in fiscal 2026 so far. In fiscal 2026 it was 29.0% above the prevailing wage. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 32 filings.
Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wageFilings per year
Fiscal years run October to September. Fiscal 2026 is still running: these figures cover October 2025 to June 2026.
NextDecade LNG LLC by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 21 | $183,500 | −0.8% | $141,461 | +29.0% |
| 2025 | 32 | $185,000 | +0.6% | $126,256 | +28.3% |
| 2024 | 12 | $183,875 | −18.4% | $173,306 | +12.2% |
| 2023 | 6 | $225,473 | n/a | $149,906 | +7.9% |
| 2022 | 3 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2021 | 0 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2020 | 1 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Offered wage by job title
Middle half of offered wagesMedian offered wageMedian prevailing wage
| Job title | Filings | Median offered | Offered range and prevailing wage | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lead, Laboratory | 2 | $170,000 | +28.9% | |
| Lead, Maintenance Systems | 2 | $215,000 | +42.4% | |
| Supervisor, ISBL | 2 | $140,400 | +53.6% | |
| Board Operator, ISBL | 1 | $145,000 | +9.9% | |
| Director, RFO Production Operations | 1 | $265,000 | +139.1% | |
| Lead, Technician Lab | 1 | $170,000 | +28.9% | |
| LNG Operations Specialist | 1 | $160,000 | +28.3% | |
| Manager, Instrumentation, Controls & Electrical Engineering | 1 | $210,000 | +5.3% | |
| Manager, Maintenance Execution | 1 | $215,000 | +18.4% | |
| Manager, Marine Operations | 1 | $210,000 | +15.6% | |
| Manager, Shift Operationa | 1 | $182,000 | +0.3% | |
| Production Shift Manager | 1 | $185,000 | +22.5% | |
| Senior Director, Maintenance | 1 | $280,000 | +54.1% | |
| Senior Director, Marine Operations | 1 | $235,000 | +39.2% | |
| Senior Manager, Environmental CSU | 1 | $195,000 | +29.1% | |
| Senior Manager, Planning and Scheduling | 1 | $225,000 | +24.0% | |
| Senior Manager, Production Optimization | 1 | $225,000 | +34.3% | |
| Senior Manager, Sustainability & HSSE Reporting | 1 | $170,000 | +29.8% | |
| Senior Rotating Machinery Engineer | 1 | $210,000 | +35.3% | |
| Shift Manager, Liquefacation | 1 | $185,000 | +1.9% | |
| Superintendent, Electrical Maintenance | 1 | $180,000 | +52.1% | |
| Superintendent, Instrumentation & Controls | 1 | $185,000 | +56.3% | |
| Supervisor, Control Room Operations | 1 | $118,352 | at the minimum | |
| Supervisor, OSBL | 1 | $135,200 | +47.9% | |
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Brownsville, TX | 12 | $182,500 |
| Houston, TX | 10 | $212,500 |
| Port Isabel, TX | 5 | $170,000 |
By visa type: 22 E-3 (Australia), 5 H-1B. By outcome: 25 certified, 1 certified and later withdrawn, 1 withdrawn before a decision.
Filings by quarter
Across all employers, filings bunch up in the first half of each year around the annual H-1B lottery, so compare a quarter with the same quarter a year earlier, not with the one before it.
Seniority of the jobs filed
The government assigns each job one of four wage levels. A higher level means a higher legal minimum.
What these numbers are
- They are wages NextDecade LNG LLC attested to on Labor Condition Applications (Form ETA-9035), not paychecks. Bonuses and stock are not included.
- A filing is not a visa or a hire. One filing can cover several positions, and some are later withdrawn. Wage figures use certified filings only.
- The prevailing wage is the minimum the employer must pay for that job in that area, set from government wage surveys.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OFLC disclosure data. How we clean and count it.
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