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PERM jobs in Colorado Springs, CO

Decisions
688
Approved
92.2%
Median certified wage
$86,216
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 41 2 0
FY2017 41 2 0
FY2018 107 2 3
FY2019 62 4 1
FY2020 43 6 6
FY2021 60 5 7
FY2022 57 1 1
FY2023 75 5 1
FY2024 15 0 5
FY2025 55 0 1
FY2026 49 24 7

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Industries

Countries of citizenship

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 178
  • None 143
  • Master's 134
  • High School 43
  • Doctorate 34
  • Other 13
  • Associate's 2

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 245
  • L-1 72
  • H-2B 46
  • NOT IN USA 42
  • F-1 18
  • E-2 7
  • J-1 7
  • TN 4
  • B-2 4
  • TPS 2

H-1B in Colorado Springs, CO

1,541 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 1,459 (95%). 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 110
  2. Electronics Engineers, Except Computer 54
  3. Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 53
  4. Computer Programmers 44
  5. Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 33
  6. Computer Systems Analysts 30
  7. Network and Computer Systems Administrators 15
  8. Electrical Engineers 14
  9. Database Administrators 12
  10. Data Scientists 12

Where Colorado Springs, CO sits

County
El Paso County
Census places Colorado Springs city in it
Metro area
Colorado Springs, CO
Metropolitan statistical area
DOL wage area
Colorado Springs, CO
The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27

100.7 is BEA's price level for the Colorado Springs, CO metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 116.2. A salary here buys about 99% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.

What these jobs pay in Colorado Springs, CO BLS May 2025, DOL wage year 2026-27
  • Electronics Engineers, Except Computer
    70 PERM decisions
  • Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers
    65 PERM decisions
  • First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers
    50 PERM decisions
  • Cooks, Restaurant
    44 PERM decisions
  • Computer Systems Analysts
    14 PERM decisions
  • Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
    14 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
Electronics Engineers, Except Computer $119,330 $90,709 $108,472 $126,214 $143,978
Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers $43,480 $36,566 $40,331 $44,117 $47,882
First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers $56,370 $44,803 $51,896 $58,989 $66,082
Cooks, Restaurant $38,000 $34,445 $37,253 $40,040 $42,848
Computer Systems Analysts $128,740 $88,462 $111,072 $133,682 $156,291
Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners $35,910 $31,554 $34,133 $36,733 $39,312

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

The jobs filed most in Colorado Springs, CO: 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?