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PERM jobs in Coopersburg, PA

Decisions
49
Approved
100.0%
Median certified wage
$80,000
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 12 0 2
FY2017 13 0 0
FY2018 6 0 0
FY2019 2 0 0
FY2020 6 0 1
FY2021 1 0 0
FY2022 1 0 0
FY2023 2 0 0
FY2024 1 0 0
FY2025 0 0 0
FY2026 2 0 0

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Industries

  • Power, Distribution, and Specialty Transformer Manufacturing 34
  • Electric Lighting Equipment Manufacturing (NAICS 3351) 8
  • Electrical Equipment Manufacturing 3
  • New Single-Family Housing Construction (except For-Sale Builders) 2
  • Electric Lighting Equipment Manufacturing (NAICS 33513) 1
  • All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing 1

Countries of citizenship

  • India 29
  • China 9
  • Romania 2
  • Nepal 2
  • Thailand 1
  • Pakistan 1
  • Nigeria 1
  • Iran 1
  • Mexico 1

Worker's education

  • Master's 27
  • Bachelor's 18
  • High School 2

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 41
  • F-1 3
  • NOT IN USA 2
  • H-4 1

H-1B in Coopersburg, PA

277 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 260 (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.

Jobs, certified LCAs since FY2024

  1. Software Developers 33
  2. Data Scientists 6
  3. Computer Programmers 6
  4. Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 5
  5. Manufacturing Engineers 4
  6. Electrical Engineers 3
  7. Project Management Specialists 2
  8. Computer Systems Analysts 1
  9. Computer Hardware Engineers 1
  10. Electronics Engineers, Except Computer 1

Where Coopersburg, PA sits

County
Lehigh County
Census places Coopersburg borough in it
Metro area
Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ
Metropolitan statistical area
DOL wage area
Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ
The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27

100.0 is BEA's price level for the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 105.5. A salary here buys about 100% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.

What these jobs pay in Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ BLS May 2025, DOL wage year 2026-27
  • Electrical Engineers
    12 PERM decisions
  • Mechanical Engineers
    6 PERM decisions
  • Sales Engineers
    3 PERM decisions
  • Plasterers and Stucco Masons
    2 PERM decisions
  • Commercial and Industrial Designers
    2 PERM decisions
  • Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers
    1 PERM decisions
$50k$100k$150k
  • 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
Electrical Engineers $111,500 $77,272 $97,614 $117,936 $138,278
Mechanical Engineers $102,980 $75,878 $93,101 $110,344 $127,566
Sales Engineers $93,920 $65,104 $81,349 $97,573 $113,818
Plasterers and Stucco Masons — $62,275 $80,662 $99,029 $117,416
Commercial and Industrial Designers $71,760 $53,976 $65,728 $77,501 $89,253
Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers $107,740 $78,125 $99,382 $120,661 $141,918

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

The jobs filed most in Coopersburg, PA: 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.

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