Updated
PERM jobs in Burlington, NC
- Decisions
- 104
- Approved
- 91.1%
- Median certified wage
- $77,438
- 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- withdrawn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| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |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 | 25 | 2 | 1 |
| FY2017 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| FY2018 | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| FY2019 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2021 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2022 | 6 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2023 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2024 | 6 | 2 | 0 |
| FY2025 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2026 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Top sponsors
- Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings 42
- MUY PIZZA SOUTHEAST LLC 23
- Royal Technical Group, Inc. 11
- CS Carolina, Inc. 9
- ALAMANCE FOODS INC 3
- FOREFRONT TECHNOLOGIES, LLC 3
- The Burlington School, Inc. 2
- Shawmut LLC 1
- Flexaust Inc 1
- UNDERGROUND MUSCLE LLC 1
Top occupations
- Software Developers, Applications 15
- Cooks, Fast Food 15
- Computer Occupations, All Other 10
- Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians 8
- Combined Food Preparation and Serving Workers, Including Fast Food 8
- Database Administrators 5
- Industrial Production Managers 4
- Software Developers, Systems Software 4
- Industrial Engineers 3
- Computer Systems Analysts 3
Industries
- Medical Laboratories 41
- Food Services and Drinking Places 23
- Other Support Activities for Air Transportation 11
- Other Textile Product Mills 4
- Dry, Condensed, and Evaporated Dairy Product Manufacturing 3
- All Other Textile Product Mills 3
- Fiber, Yarn, and Thread Mills 2
- Custom Computer Programming Services 2
- Laminated Plastics Plate, Sheet (except Packaging), and Shape Manufacturing 1
- Rubber and Plastics Hoses and Belting Manufacturing 1
Countries of citizenship
- India 43
- South Korea 17
- China 6
- Iran 5
- Egypt 3
- Canada 3
- Venezuela 3
- Saudi Arabia 3
- Taiwan 3
- Mexico 2
Worker's education
- Bachelor's 30
- None 29
- Master's 24
- High School 9
- Other 2
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 45
- NOT IN USA 8
- F-1 7
- EWI 1
- TN 1
H-1B in Burlington, NC
374 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 359 (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.
Employers, certified LCAs since FY2024
Jobs, certified LCAs since FY2024
- Software Developers 26
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 14
- Clinical and Counseling Psychologists 10
- Manufacturing Engineers 9
- Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists 8
- Registered Nurses 5
- Food Scientists and Technologists 4
- Physical Therapists 4
- Computer Systems Analysts 4
- General Internal Medicine Physicians 4
Where Burlington, NC sits
- Counties
- Alamance and Guilford counties
- Census places Burlington city in both
- Metro area
- Burlington, NC
- Metropolitan statistical area
- DOL wage area
- Burlington, NC
- For Alamance County, at the city's center. Its counties sit in two wage areas
93.2 is BEA's price level for the Burlington, NC metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 77.9. A salary here buys about 107% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.
- Cooks, Fast Food15 PERM decisions
- Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians8 PERM decisions
- Industrial Production Managers4 PERM decisions
- Industrial Engineers3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cooks, Fast Food | $27,450 | $21,819 | $24,274 | $26,749 | $29,203 |
| Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians | $51,640 | $43,118 | $49,088 | $55,058 | $61,027 |
| Industrial Production Managers | $112,690 | $81,016 | $101,899 | $122,803 | $143,686 |
| Industrial Engineers | $95,870 | $67,704 | $80,933 | $94,182 | $107,411 |
Any job in any area, and every wage year since 2021-22, in the wage-level tool.
The jobs filed most in Burlington, NC: what employers in the metro report paying everyone in each, and DOL's four prevailing wage levels there. More
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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