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PERM jobs in Charlotte, NC

Decisions
7,700
Approved
96.7%
Median certified wage
$110,000
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 438 5 12
FY2017 361 13 14
FY2018 454 15 10
FY2019 348 10 10
FY2020 425 7 13
FY2021 530 13 19
FY2022 567 25 20
FY2023 778 20 11
FY2024 679 91 199
FY2025 1,475 26 34
FY2026 1,042 16 20

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Industries

Countries of citizenship

Worker's education

  • Master's 2,207
  • Bachelor's 1,887
  • None 447
  • Doctorate 173
  • Other 80
  • High School 34
  • Associate's 15

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 3,862
  • NOT IN USA 285
  • L-1 200
  • F-1 127
  • E-2 50
  • TN 32
  • H-4 20
  • B-2 16
  • E-1 15
  • J-1 11

H-1B in Charlotte, NC

46,397 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 44,445 (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 7,975
  2. Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 2,885
  3. Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 906
  4. Data Scientists 844
  5. Computer Programmers 833
  6. Computer Systems Analysts 553
  7. Database Administrators 414
  8. Computer and Information Systems Managers 357
  9. Data Warehousing Specialists 282
  10. Financial Quantitative Analysts 234

Where Charlotte, NC sits

County
Mecklenburg County
Census places Charlotte city in it
Metro area
Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC
Metropolitan statistical area
DOL wage area
Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC
The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27

97.3 is BEA's price level for the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 97.6. A salary here buys about 103% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.

What these jobs pay in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC BLS May 2025, DOL wage year 2026-27
  • Software Developers
    1,155 PERM decisions
  • Packers and Packagers, Hand
    571 PERM decisions
  • Fast Food and Counter Workers
    245 PERM decisions
  • Computer Systems Analysts
    201 PERM decisions
  • Computer and Information Systems Managers
    142 PERM decisions
  • Financial Quantitative Analysts
    128 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
Market pay and DOL wage levels for the jobs filed most here
Job BLS median Level I Level II Level III Level IV
Software Developers $135,920 $99,029 $118,934 $138,840 $158,746
Packers and Packagers, Hand $37,030 $29,016 $32,822 $36,650 $40,456
Fast Food and Counter Workers $28,880 $23,608 $26,749 $29,869 $33,010
Computer Systems Analysts $110,790 $80,683 $99,757 $118,851 $137,925
Computer and Information Systems Managers $176,840 $130,042 $162,136 $194,230 $226,325
Financial Quantitative Analysts $87,530 $61,381 $79,206 $97,011 $114,837

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

The jobs filed most in Charlotte, NC: 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.

Cite this page

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.

Don't have the number?