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PERM jobs in Arlington, VA

Decisions
1,910
Approved
96.4%
Median certified wage
$110,000
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 157 14 6
FY2017 127 7 3
FY2018 192 7 8
FY2019 110 4 3
FY2020 107 6 2
FY2021 149 4 4
FY2022 175 7 8
FY2023 214 7 11
FY2024 240 2 11
FY2025 169 3 7
FY2026 123 5 18

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Countries of citizenship

Worker's education

  • Master's 780
  • Bachelor's 443
  • None 200
  • High School 67
  • Doctorate 50
  • Other 16
  • Associate's 12

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 1,015
  • F-1 142
  • L-1 99
  • NOT IN USA 38
  • B-2 30
  • TN 19
  • J-1 13
  • F-2 12
  • E-2 10
  • A1/A2 9

H-1B in Arlington, VA

8,948 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 8,573 (96%). An LCA is the employer's wage attestation before an H-1B petition, so it counts positions offered. It doesn't count people hired.

Jobs, certified LCAs since FY2024

  1. Software Developers 1,440
  2. Data Scientists 397
  3. Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 258
  4. Operations Research Analysts 180
  5. Computer and Information Systems Managers 173
  6. Accountants and Auditors 110
  7. Financial and Investment Analysts 98
  8. Database Administrators 92
  9. Information Security Analysts 90
  10. Search Marketing Strategists 88

Where Arlington, VA sits

County
Arlington County
Census places Arlington CDP in it
Metro area
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
Metropolitan statistical area
DOL wage area
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27

108.9 is BEA's price level for the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 151.1. A salary here buys about 92% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.

What these jobs pay in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV BLS May 2025, DOL wage year 2026-27
  • Software Developers
    98 PERM decisions
  • Accountants and Auditors
    58 PERM decisions
  • Computer and Information Systems Managers
    48 PERM decisions
  • Statisticians
    43 PERM decisions
  • Cooks, Restaurant
    43 PERM decisions
  • Data Scientists
    42 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
Market pay and DOL wage levels for the jobs filed most here
Job BLS median Level I Level II Level III Level IV
Software Developers $154,930 $102,086 $127,462 $152,838 $178,214
Accountants and Auditors $102,140 $72,384 $92,914 $113,422 $133,952
Computer and Information Systems Managers $195,190 $147,472 $177,070 $206,648 $236,246
Statisticians $136,660 $102,003 $119,850 $137,717 $155,563
Cooks, Restaurant $42,920 $35,235 $38,896 $42,557 $46,218
Data Scientists $132,200 $92,830 $118,040 $143,250 $168,459

Any job in any area, and every wage year since 2021-22, in the wage-level tool.

The jobs filed most in Arlington, VA: what employers in the metro report paying everyone in each, and DOL's four prevailing wage levels there. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics; DOL OFLC wage tables

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.

Cite this page

Waiting on a PERM case?

  • When it'll likely be decided
  • An email when DOL moves it

It's on your ETA-9089 receipt. A case number looks like G-100-26125-868956.

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