Updated
PERM jobs in Berkeley, CA
- Decisions
- 701
- Approved
- 95.6%
- Median certified wage
- $107,570
- 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- withdrawn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| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |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 | 61 | 5 | 1 |
| FY2017 | 62 | 3 | 3 |
| FY2018 | 55 | 5 | 1 |
| FY2019 | 51 | 3 | 2 |
| FY2020 | 73 | 0 | 5 |
| FY2021 | 69 | 5 | 10 |
| FY2022 | 53 | 2 | 2 |
| FY2023 | 42 | 3 | 3 |
| FY2024 | 41 | 3 | 1 |
| FY2025 | 69 | 0 | 5 |
| FY2026 | 60 | 0 | 3 |
Top sponsors
- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY 144
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 82
- Ocean Cities Pizza, Inc. 50
- MSCI INC. 28
- Typical Set, LLC 27
- Bayer U.S. LLC 15
- Microsoft Corporation 12
- HERE NORTH AMERICA, LLC 11
- American International Montessori School, Inc. 9
- BAYER BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY SERVICES, LLC 8
Top occupations
- Driver/Sales Workers 50
- Nonfarm Animal Caretakers 48
- Software Developers, Applications 36
- Software Developers, Systems Software 20
- Operations Research Analysts 18
- Software Developers 16
- Software Developers, Applications, Non R & D (ACWIA Only) 16
- Landscape Architects 14
- Business Teachers, Postsecondary 13
- Computer Occupations, All Other 13
Industries
- Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools 150
- Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (NAICS 54171) 59
- Racetracks 54
- Limited-Service Restaurants 52
- Custom Computer Programming Services 51
- Software Publishers 28
- Miscellaneous Financial Investment Activities 27
- Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (NAICS 541710) 20
- Full-Service Restaurants 14
- Medicinal and Botanical Manufacturing 12
Countries of citizenship
Worker's education
- Master's 173
- None 127
- Doctorate 126
- Bachelor's 115
- High School 10
- Other 8
- Associate's 1
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 326
- F-1 96
- L-1 29
- H-2B 11
- E-2 9
- TN 8
- F-2 6
- O-1 5
- NOT IN USA 5
- J-1 3
H-1B in Berkeley, CA
3,983 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 3,693 (93%). 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
- Molecular and Cellular Biologists 108
- Software Developers 93
- Physicists 88
- Computer and Information Research Scientists 83
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 77
- Mechatronics Engineers 70
- Data Scientists 55
- Chemists 49
- Biochemists and Biophysicists 42
- Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers 36
Where Berkeley, CA sits
- County
- Alameda County
- Census places Berkeley city in it
- Metro area
- San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA
- Metropolitan statistical area
- DOL wage area
- San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA
- The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27
115.6 is BEA's price level for the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 194.7. A salary here buys about 86% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.
- Driver/Sales Workers50 PERM decisions
- Nonfarm Animal Caretakers48 PERM decisions
- Operations Research Analysts18 PERM decisions
- Software Developers16 PERM decisions
- Landscape Architects14 PERM decisions
- Business Teachers, Postsecondary13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Driver/Sales Workers | $43,680 | $38,168 | $43,742 | $49,338 | $54,912 |
| Nonfarm Animal Caretakers | $43,640 | $39,707 | $43,306 | $46,925 | $50,523 |
| Operations Research Analysts | $110,560 | $79,269 | $99,715 | $120,141 | $140,587 |
| Software Developers | $186,640 | $137,093 | $165,131 | $193,149 | $221,187 |
| Landscape Architects | $119,730 | $76,794 | $105,768 | $134,722 | $163,696 |
| Business Teachers, Postsecondary | $128,640 | $70,960 | $105,650 | $140,340 | $175,030 |
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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