Facts
as of Nov 15, 2026
Western Governors University is an American non-profit online university founded in 1997 by the governors of nineteen western states to serve working adults that traditional institutions were not reaching. Its distinguishing feature is competency-based education: students progress by demonstrating mastery of defined competencies rather than by accumulating credit hours, and tuition is charged per six-month term rather than per course, so finishing faster costs less. Headquartered in Salt Lake City, it enrols well over a hundred thousand students across teaching, nursing, business and information technology, making it one of the largest universities in the country.
It is hiring: 62 open roles, 37 of them posted in the last 30 days.
- Headquarters
- Salt Lake City, United States
- Founded
- 1997
- Employees
- 8,309US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +9% in a year
- Open roles
- 62 in 12 citiesAlion job postings
- Website
- wgu.edu
As of Nov 15, 2026, Alion lists 62 open roles at Western Governors University. Western Governors University is headquartered in Salt Lake City, United States. It was founded in 1997. The median pay stated in its open roles is $179k, across 55 postings that state pay.
Sources: company registers, GLEIF, Wikidata, the company's site, Alion job postingsReport a mistake
What the registers and the postings say about this employer.
Postings are real
Alion truth index: A
94/100
Ghost roles
re-checked against its careers site
8%
Sanctions lists
OFAC SDN, EU consolidated
No match
Phishing reports
OpenPhish, Phishing.Database
None
Layoff notices
US WARN notices on file
None
Sources: company registers, the Alion truth index, OFAC and EU sanctions lists, US WARN notices
Hiring at full speed: most open roles are fresh.
HR is the largest family, 25 of open roles.
37Posted in 30 days51% of open roles are fresh
21%Remote roles15 of 72
8Roles in AI11% of open roles
12Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Likely
338 open roles are in your country: you apply locally, no move needed.
United States338On site
Remote, from elsewhere15Rare
Some postings offer visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 15.
Time to fillmedian days to close a role
Western Governors University19 days
Market, same roles35 days
Alion signals0-100
Demand92
Pay49
Your chance44
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time+7800%
Jul 20This week
Open roles a week: 1 then, 79 now
Are the postings real?
A
94 / 100Western Governors University scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 24 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 8% look like ghost listings, 8% have gone stale and 25% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 19 days.
Ghost roles8%
Gone stale8%
Reposted25%
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
HR25▲
Education16
Backend11▲
Management9
Product5▼
Analytics4▼
Newest roles
Senior Software Engineer$144k – $223k per year · In office · Full-Time · 6+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Salt Lake City
Design Writer$68k – $103k per year · In office · Full-Time · 2+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Salt Lake City
Project Manager III$100k – $150k per year · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Salt Lake City
What postings ask forlanguages named in open roles
Degree asked
Bachelor's Degree 71%Master's Degree 24%High School Diploma 4%Associate's Degree 1%
Experience asked: 5.4 years on average, in 69 postings. 68 postings state a degree.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
Retirement plans72100%
Parental leave6185%
Life insurance6185%
Equity913%
Continuous learning710%
Professional development46%
Relocation assistance23%
Hybrid work11%
Growth opportunities11%
Contract type
Full-Time 61Part-Time 10Internship 1
Visa sponsorship in some rolesRelocation offered
Source: the company's careers site, read by Alion several times a day; market medians from all open roles of the same family
What its postings pay, by level.
$191kMedianmarket estimate $170k
$134k – $223kTypical rangeUSD a year
$303kHighest paying roleDirector, Construction - Real Estate Development
Pay by levelmiddle half of stated pay, median marked · dashed: market median $170k
Junior6$103k$91k – $110k
Middle13$134k$111k – $150k
Senior21$191k$150k – $210k
Staff+6$250k
Lead4$191k$136k – $280k
Head+5$235k$235k – $303k
$0$88k$175k$263k$350k
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year
Named in the work visa registers of United States.
106 ▲ 186%H-1B filings in 12 months
6Green card filings
$153kMedian offered salary
2Adverts offering sponsorship in 24 months
In the register as WGU Corporation, Salt Lake City, UT (+4 more)
Other sponsors in the same field
US Department of Labor · latest filing Nov 6, 2026
Footprint
Hiring in 12 cities in 1 country.
12Cities
1Countries
Salt Lake CityBusiest site
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers
Ranked #6 by open roles among its 11 closest peers.
Source: Alion's similar-companies engine (industry segments, technologies, headquarters country, size)
Technologies named in job postings at Western Governors University over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
213Technologies in use
171Postings analysed
82/100Stack modernityAI adopter
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Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site
Milestones
Each milestone is dated by its source: registers, filings, the press
Newsroom
top 0.01%Web presenceof 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
1Hacker News storiesbest: 26 points
Mar 17, 20252025
News · Campus Technology
Western Governors University is the first organization to join the Open edX project as a "mission-aligned organization" (MAO), a new category of institution-level partnership sup…
Sep 11, 20242024
News · Campus Technology
Western Governors University has announced the acquisition of Craft Education, an ed tech platform for managing job training aligned with degree programs and work-ready skills.
Aug 27, 20242024
Press release · businesswire.com
Sources: the outlets named on each headline, each story once
