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PERM jobs in Austin, TX

Decisions
17,372
Approved
97.9%
Median certified wage
$115,000
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 1,100 24 43
FY2017 887 40 59
FY2018 1,294 52 34
FY2019 1,168 37 60
FY2020 1,096 15 38
FY2021 1,266 33 46
FY2022 1,375 40 84
FY2023 1,746 28 145
FY2024 1,922 40 135
FY2025 2,729 13 120
FY2026 1,613 23 67

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Top occupations

Industries

Countries of citizenship

Worker's education

  • Master's 7,514
  • Bachelor's 3,680
  • None 667
  • Doctorate 355
  • Other 109
  • High School 80
  • Associate's 27

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 9,618
  • L-1 1,063
  • F-1 639
  • TN 185
  • NOT IN USA 117
  • E-2 61
  • B-2 58
  • H-4 50
  • F-2 22
  • O-1 21

H-1B in Austin, TX

82,266 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 78,695 (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 12,857
  2. Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 3,767
  3. Electronics Engineers, Except Computer 3,005
  4. Data Scientists 1,905
  5. Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 1,254
  6. Manufacturing Engineers 1,129
  7. Computer and Information Systems Managers 1,046
  8. Computer Programmers 1,029
  9. Computer Systems Analysts 928
  10. Electrical Engineers 595

Where Austin, TX sits

Counties
Bastrop, Hays, Travis and Williamson counties
Census places Austin city in all four
Metro area
Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX
Metropolitan statistical area
DOL wage area
Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX
The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27

98.1 is BEA's price level for the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 120.4. A salary here buys about 102% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.

What these jobs pay in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX BLS May 2025, DOL wage year 2026-27
  • Electronics Engineers, Except Computer
    2,505 PERM decisions
  • Software Developers
    2,391 PERM decisions
  • Computer Systems Analysts
    458 PERM decisions
  • Computer and Information Systems Managers
    362 PERM decisions
  • Industrial Engineers
    305 PERM decisions
  • Sales Engineers
    250 PERM decisions
$100k$150k$200k$250k$300k
  • 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
Electronics Engineers, Except Computer $162,960 $100,131 $126,235 $152,360 $178,464
Software Developers $134,120 $95,888 $119,642 $143,395 $167,149
Computer Systems Analysts $104,590 $76,710 $95,347 $113,963 $132,600
Computer and Information Systems Managers $176,990 $128,128 $160,139 $192,130 $224,141
Industrial Engineers $103,610 $72,030 $93,725 $115,419 $137,114
Sales Engineers $137,960 $89,086 $117,250 $145,392 $173,555

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

The jobs filed most in Austin, TX: 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.

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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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