Updated
PERM jobs in Champaign, IL
- Decisions
- 400
- Approved
- 97.3%
- Median certified wage
- $84,448
- 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- withdrawn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| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |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 | 60 | 3 | 9 |
| FY2017 | 30 | 2 | 2 |
| FY2018 | 49 | 1 | 3 |
| FY2019 | 35 | 1 | 2 |
| FY2020 | 41 | 0 | 3 |
| FY2021 | 53 | 1 | 1 |
| FY2022 | 20 | 2 | 3 |
| FY2023 | 24 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2024 | 21 | 0 | 3 |
| FY2025 | 13 | 0 | 2 |
| FY2026 | 15 | 0 | 0 |
Top sponsors
- UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANACHAMPAIGN 54
- Wolfram Research, Inc. 45
- OATH HOLDINGS INC. 43
- HOOSIER CARE INC. 36
- AMDOCS INC. 29
- YAHOO! INC. 20
- INTEL AMERICA'S INC. 12
- Caterpillar Inc. 10
- NEW WORLD MARKET CORP 9
- APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC. 7
Top occupations
Industries
- Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools 64
- Residential Intellectual and Developmental Disability Facilities 36
- Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals 35
- Software Publishers 25
- Other Computer Related Services 24
- Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services 21
- Custom Computer Programming Services 17
- Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing 14
- Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences 13
- Engineering Services 11
Countries of citizenship
- India 136
- China 62
- Philippines 43
- South Korea 27
- Nepal 13
- Taiwan 9
- Brazil 8
- Canada 8
- Iran 6
- Germany 4
Worker's education
- Master's 158
- Bachelor's 94
- Doctorate 70
- None 20
- Other 14
- High School 10
- Associate's 2
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 232
- NOT IN USA 46
- F-1 36
- L-1 23
- O-1 5
- EWI 3
- F-2 3
- B-1 2
- TPS 2
- J-2 2
H-1B in Champaign, IL
1,333 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 1,212 (91%). 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 118
- Business Teachers, Postsecondary 32
- Data Scientists 31
- Mechanical Engineers 27
- Accountants and Auditors 15
- Civil Engineers 13
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 12
- Hospitalists 12
- Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary 12
- Computer and Information Research Scientists 8
Where Champaign, IL sits
- County
- Champaign County
- Census places Champaign city in it
- Metro area
- Champaign-Urbana, IL
- Metropolitan statistical area
- DOL wage area
- Champaign-Urbana, IL
- The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27
92.7 is BEA's price level for the Champaign-Urbana, IL metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 71.6. A salary here buys about 108% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.
- Business Teachers, Postsecondary35 PERM decisions
- Dentists, General13 PERM decisions
- Statisticians11 PERM decisions
- Software Developers10 PERM decisions
- Industrial Engineers8 PERM decisions
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business Teachers, Postsecondary | — | $61,760 | $104,577 | $147,393 | $190,210 |
| Dentists, General | $174,010 | $124,592 | $162,677 | $200,762 | $238,846 |
| Statisticians | — | $68,370 | $78,686 | $89,024 | $99,341 |
| Software Developers | $106,080 | $76,482 | $95,618 | $114,733 | $133,869 |
| Industrial Engineers | $82,390 | $63,066 | $77,230 | $91,374 | $105,539 |
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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