Patterson-UTI Drilling Company, LLC H-1B wage filings
Houston, TX. Last filed in fiscal 2026. Figures cover every filing since fiscal 2020; none in the latest 12 months reach five.
Patterson-UTI Drilling Company, LLC filed 11 wage applications for H-1B and similar visas from fiscal 2020 to fiscal 2026. The median wage it offered was $125,632, exactly the government's prevailing wage, the legal minimum, for the same jobs.
- Filings since FY2020
- 11
- Positions covered
- 11
- Certified
- 100.0%
- Job titles
- 9
- Worksite cities
- 2
- Last filed
- FY2026
Offered wage since 2020
Patterson-UTI Drilling Company, LLC made 11 filings across 7 fiscal years since 2020, too few in most years to track the wage year by year. Its busiest full year was fiscal 2025, with 3 filings.
Fiscal years run October to September. Fiscal 2026 is still running: these figures cover October 2025 to June 2026.
Patterson-UTI Drilling Company, LLC by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Filings | Median offered | vs year before | Median prevailing | vs prevailing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Oct to Jun) | 2 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2025 | 3 | $110,400 | n/a | $103,210 | at the minimum |
| 2024 | 1 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2023 | 1 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2022 | 2 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2021 | 1 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Controls and Automation Engineer | 2 | $135,316 | +0.5% | |
| Senior SQL Developer | 2 | $109,105 | +12.0% | |
| Control Systems Software Developer | 1 | $108,742 | at the minimum | |
| Engineer Senior | 1 | $134,521 | +2.3% | |
| Lead Controls and Automation Engineer - Sustaining | 1 | $140,005 | at the minimum | |
| Manager, Controls and Automation | 1 | $129,397 | at the minimum | |
| Scientist Technology PDC | 1 | $110,400 | +107.7% | |
| Senior Software Developer - Fullstack | 1 | $105,165 | at the minimum | |
| SR. Software Devleoper | 1 | $126,500 | at the minimum | |
No job title on this page matches. Only the most-filed titles are listed.
Where the jobs are
| Worksite | Filings | Median offered |
|---|---|---|
| Houston, TX | 10 | $120,316 |
| Springtown, TX | 1 | $134,521 |
By visa type: 11 H-1B. By outcome: 10 certified, 1 certified and later withdrawn.
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 Patterson-UTI Drilling Company, 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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