Updated
PERM jobs in Allentown, PA
- Decisions
- 1,428
- Approved
- 96.1%
- Median certified wage
- $30,160
- Years
- FY2016 to FY2026
Year by year
- certified
- denied
- withdrawn
Fiscal years run October to September. More
Fiscal years run October to September. FY2016 to FY2023 come from DOL's closed-year files, and FY2024 on from its current ones. The newest year is partial until DOL publishes its fourth quarter.
Every year as a table
| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2016 | 54 | 3 | 2 |
| FY2017 | 34 | 3 | 4 |
| FY2018 | 37 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2019 | 35 | 2 | 4 |
| FY2020 | 23 | 0 | 3 |
| FY2021 | 26 | 1 | 4 |
| FY2022 | 29 | 1 | 8 |
| FY2023 | 47 | 2 | 2 |
| FY2024 | 100 | 21 | 1 |
| FY2025 | 323 | 21 | 3 |
| FY2026 | 633 | 1 | 1 |
Top sponsors
- Labor Guys, LLC 933
- SOFTNICE INC 74
- INTEL AMERICAS INC. 65
- Lineage Logistics Services, LLC 49
- Computer Aid, Inc. 40
- Penn Street Pizza, Inc. 23
- Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. 21
- INTEL CORPORATION 21
- Infinera Corporation 18
- RIGHT CLICK SYSTEMS LLC 18
Top occupations
- Helpers--Production Workers 933
- Electronics Engineers, Except Computer 100
- Software Developers, Applications 58
- Software Developers, Systems Software 28
- Combined Food Preparation and Serving Workers, Including Fast Food 23
- Network and Computer Systems Administrators* 16
- Software Developers 14
- Information Security Analysts 13
- Computer Occupations, All Other 12
- Electrical Engineers 12
Industries
- Temporary Help Services 933
- Custom Computer Programming Services 117
- Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing 103
- Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage 49
- Computer Systems Design and Related Services 25
- Limited-Service Restaurants 23
- Industrial Gas Manufacturing 19
- Full-Service Restaurants 17
- Telephone Apparatus Manufacturing 16
- Electronic Computer Manufacturing 13
Countries of citizenship
- India 260
- Bangladesh 18
- China 14
- Nepal 12
- Mexico 6
- South Korea 6
- Brazil 6
- Canada 6
- Dominican Republic 6
- United Kingdom 6
Worker's education
- Master's 220
- Bachelor's 95
- None 58
- Doctorate 9
- Other 8
- High School 5
- Associate's 1
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 263
- F-1 55
- NOT IN USA 22
- L-1 19
- B-2 5
- H-4 4
- TPS 3
- TN 3
- F-2 2
- H-2B 2
H-1B in Allentown, PA
1,309 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 1,236 (94%). An LCA is the employer's wage attestation before an H-1B petition, so it counts positions offered. It doesn't count people hired.
Employers, certified LCAs since FY2024
Jobs, certified LCAs since FY2024
- Software Developers 115
- Computer Systems Analysts 34
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 32
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 29
- Manufacturing Engineers 24
- Electrical Engineers 20
- Electronics Engineers, Except Computer 20
- Mechanical Engineers 17
- Data Scientists 15
- Chemical Engineers 14
Where Allentown, PA sits
- County
- Lehigh County
- Census places Allentown city in it
- Metro area
- Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ
- Metropolitan statistical area
- DOL wage area
- Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ
- The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27
100.0 is BEA's price level for the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 105.5. A salary here buys about 100% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.
- Helpers--Production Workers933 PERM decisions
- Electronics Engineers, Except Computer100 PERM decisions
- Software Developers14 PERM decisions
- Electrical Engineers12 PERM decisions
Each row has its own scale, marked at its ends: these jobs pay too differently to share one. The table compares them.
- middle half of pay (BLS)
- median
- 10th to 90th percentile
- DOL's Levels I to IV, left to right
| Job | BLS median | Level I | Level II | Level III | Level IV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Helpers--Production Workers | $41,450 | $34,944 | $38,605 | $42,266 | $45,926 |
| Electronics Engineers, Except Computer | $127,900 | $85,925 | $104,520 | $123,136 | $141,731 |
| Software Developers | $122,930 | $80,246 | $102,232 | $124,197 | $146,182 |
| Electrical Engineers | $111,500 | $77,272 | $97,614 | $117,936 | $138,278 |
Any job in any area, and every wage year since 2021-22, in the wage-level tool.
The worksite city on each application, from DOL's decided cases since FY2016. Spellings of one city are pooled, and a city counts as one place per state.
Case data through Jun 30, 2026 · LCA disclosures through Jun 30, 2026 · Census places and metros through Jan 1, 2026 · BLS market pay through May 31, 2025 · DOL wage tables through Jul 1, 2026. How these figures are counted. Spotted an error? Tell us; every fix is dated in the corrections log.
The sources in full
Case data: DOL quarterly disclosure files (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly
LCA disclosures: DOL quarterly LCA disclosure files (www.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly
Census places and metros: Census Bureau Gazetteer and metro delineation files (census.gov) · data through Jan 1, 2026 · yearly
BLS market pay: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (bls.gov) · data through May 31, 2025 · yearly, each spring
DOL wage tables: DOL OFLC wage data downloads (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jul 1, 2026 · yearly, each july
What each source includes
Case data: Decided PERM cases only. A case still waiting isn't in here, so counts and durations describe finished cases.
LCA disclosures: Certified and denied H-1B labor condition applications only, with the wage offered.
Census places and metros: Where each worksite city sits: its county, metro area and DOL wage area, matched to Census's place and county files. A city Census lists in no single place is left unmatched. This site doesn't guess it.
BLS market pay: Pay employers report for everyone in each job, from BLS's yearly survey (May of the year named). It's shown nationally, by state and by metro. It covers citizens and immigrants alike, and it isn't drawn from PERM offers.
DOL wage tables: The four prevailing wage levels DOL publishes for every job in every area, each wage year from 2021-22, as DOL's own tables print them. They're the floors an offer is held to. They don't show what anyone was paid.
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