Updated
PERM jobs in Detroit, MI
- Decisions
- 2,570
- Approved
- 97.2%
- Median certified wage
- $100,000
- 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- withdrawn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| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |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 | 219 | 13 | 7 |
| FY2017 | 156 | 8 | 5 |
| FY2018 | 237 | 16 | 7 |
| FY2019 | 179 | 0 | 4 |
| FY2020 | 207 | 4 | 4 |
| FY2021 | 206 | 0 | 3 |
| FY2022 | 210 | 1 | 16 |
| FY2023 | 285 | 20 | 20 |
| FY2024 | 220 | 4 | 13 |
| FY2025 | 259 | 1 | 14 |
| FY2026 | 212 | 1 | 19 |
Top sponsors
- General Motors Company 204
- HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM 151
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan 130
- Rock Central LLC 126
- Rocket Mortgage, LLC 111
- Voyager Express Inc 111
- QUICKEN LOANS INC. 109
- CW PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DBA LOCHBRIDGE 89
- QUICKEN LOANS, LLC 77
- Deloitte Consulting LLP 66
Top occupations
- Software Developers, Applications 620
- Computer Systems Analysts 148
- Computer Occupations, All Other 142
- Software Developers 138
- Software Developers, Systems Software 122
- Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers 96
- Accountants and Auditors 95
- Mechanical Engineers 87
- Statisticians 53
- Computer and Information Systems Managers 51
Industries
- Automobile Manufacturing 196
- Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services 186
- Real Estate Credit 170
- General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 165
- Custom Computer Programming Services 153
- Computer Systems Design and Related Services 145
- Consumer Lending 142
- Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers 134
- General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload 109
- Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools 102
Countries of citizenship
- India 1,299
- Canada 173
- China 131
- Mexico 56
- South Africa 44
- South Korea 30
- Brazil 30
- Germany 14
- Pakistan 14
- Japan 11
Worker's education
- Master's 958
- Bachelor's 772
- Other 115
- Doctorate 80
- None 76
- High School 6
- Associate's 4
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 1,631
- L-1 100
- TN 79
- F-1 69
- NOT IN USA 60
- B-2 6
- J-1 6
- O-1 5
- TPS 5
- E-2 4
H-1B in Detroit, MI
9,292 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 8,704 (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.
Employers, certified LCAs since FY2024
Jobs, certified LCAs since FY2024
- Software Developers 763
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 213
- Data Scientists 135
- Accountants and Auditors 133
- Computer and Information Systems Managers 107
- Hospitalists 101
- Mechanical Engineers 98
- Civil Engineers 87
- Management Analysts 85
- Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists 76
Where Detroit, MI sits
- County
- Wayne County
- Census places Detroit city in it
- Metro area
- Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI
- Metropolitan statistical area
- DOL wage area
- Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI
- The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27
100.3 is BEA's price level for the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 94.7. A salary here buys about 100% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.
- Software Developers138 PERM decisions
- Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers96 PERM decisions
- Accountants and Auditors95 PERM decisions
- Mechanical Engineers87 PERM decisions
- Statisticians53 PERM decisions
- Computer and Information Systems Managers51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Developers | $130,760 | $89,877 | $108,950 | $128,003 | $147,077 |
| Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers | $59,120 | $43,618 | $50,814 | $57,990 | $65,187 |
| Accountants and Auditors | $80,650 | $59,779 | $75,462 | $91,166 | $106,850 |
| Mechanical Engineers | $109,470 | $84,864 | $100,672 | $116,459 | $132,267 |
| Statisticians | — | $69,222 | $95,098 | $120,973 | $146,848 |
| Computer and Information Systems Managers | $170,040 | $115,086 | $144,331 | $173,555 | $202,800 |
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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