Updated
PERM jobs in Buffalo, NY
- Decisions
- 659
- Approved
- 97.5%
- Median certified wage
- $95,349
- 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- withdrawn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| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |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 | 57 | 0 | 6 |
| FY2017 | 60 | 3 | 0 |
| FY2018 | 84 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2019 | 42 | 2 | 1 |
| FY2020 | 43 | 2 | 0 |
| FY2021 | 44 | 1 | 0 |
| FY2022 | 43 | 2 | 1 |
| FY2023 | 49 | 2 | 2 |
| FY2024 | 37 | 1 | 7 |
| FY2025 | 92 | 1 | 3 |
| FY2026 | 66 | 2 | 5 |
Top sponsors
- M&T Bank 75
- MUY HAMBURGER PARTNERS, LLC 51
- STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK 42
- Apogee Medical Group, New York, PC 40
- HSBC BANK USA, N.A. 34
- Controlled Contamination Services 24
- Academic Medicine Services, Inc. 18
- Cogent Medical Care, P.C. 18
- Liazon Corporation 14
- Catholic Health System, Inc. 12
Top occupations
- Software Developers, Applications 64
- Combined Food Preparation and Serving Workers, Including Fast Food 51
- Internists, General 35
- Software Developers 32
- Computer Systems Analysts 29
- Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners 23
- Computer Occupations, All Other 21
- Physicians and Surgeons, All Other 19
- Computer and Information Systems Managers 16
- General Internal Medicine Physicians 15
Industries
- Commercial Banking 124
- Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) 92
- Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools 72
- Limited-Service Restaurants 52
- Custom Computer Programming Services 33
- Janitorial Services 24
- Offices of Physicians 22
- General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 15
- Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers 14
- HMO Medical Centers 10
Countries of citizenship
- India 180
- Canada 85
- China 48
- South Korea 32
- Vietnam 16
- Bangladesh 15
- Mexico 8
- Turkey 7
- Brazil 7
- Egypt 7
Worker's education
- Bachelor's 126
- Master's 125
- Other 96
- None 74
- Doctorate 46
- High School 6
- Associate's 3
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 336
- NOT IN USA 46
- L-1 17
- F-1 16
- TN 13
- E-2 4
- B-2 3
- TPS 2
- O-1 2
- PAROLEE 1
H-1B in Buffalo, NY
4,195 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 3,961 (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
- State University of New York at Buffalo 176
- M&T Bank 151
- Tesla, Inc. 111
- Ernst & Young U.S. LLP 96
- Roswell Park Cancer Institute 85
- SLK AMERICA INC 70
- RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF SUNY AT BUFFALO 59
- Health Research Inc. - Roswell Park Division 57
- cognizant-technology-solutions-us-corporation 45
- Apogee Medical Group, New York, PC 32
Jobs, certified LCAs since FY2024
- Software Developers 398
- Hospitalists 206
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 102
- Data Scientists 90
- Manufacturing Engineers 84
- Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists 84
- Database Administrators 43
- Computer Systems Analysts 39
- Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary 38
- Mechanical Engineers 33
Where Buffalo, NY sits
- County
- Erie County
- Census places Buffalo city in it
- Metro area
- Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY
- Metropolitan statistical area
- DOL wage area
- Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY
- The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27
95.8 is BEA's price level for the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 81.0. A salary here buys about 104% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.
- Software Developers32 PERM decisions
- Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners23 PERM decisions
- Computer and Information Systems Managers16 PERM decisions
- General Internal Medicine Physicians15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Developers | $127,850 | $84,760 | $106,558 | $128,357 | $150,155 |
| Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners | $37,380 | $33,405 | $36,358 | $39,333 | $42,286 |
| Computer and Information Systems Managers | $172,650 | $122,533 | $150,488 | $178,464 | $206,419 |
| General Internal Medicine Physicians | $186,600 | $113,006 | $166,629 | $220,272 | $273,894 |
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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