Updated
PERM jobs in Durham, NC
- Decisions
- 2,840
- Approved
- 97.8%
- Median certified wage
- $112,000
- 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- withdrawn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| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |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 | 167 | 7 | 4 |
| FY2017 | 164 | 4 | 3 |
| FY2018 | 220 | 2 | 4 |
| FY2019 | 136 | 6 | 1 |
| FY2020 | 129 | 1 | 11 |
| FY2021 | 225 | 5 | 7 |
| FY2022 | 205 | 3 | 11 |
| FY2023 | 236 | 11 | 12 |
| FY2024 | 393 | 5 | 11 |
| FY2025 | 489 | 5 | 8 |
| FY2026 | 325 | 11 | 19 |
Top sponsors
Top occupations
- Software Developers, Applications 555
- Software Developers 522
- Software Developers, Systems Software 278
- Computer Occupations, All Other 106
- Computer Systems Analysts (SOC 15-1121) 105
- Statisticians 101
- Computer and Information Systems Managers 91
- Computer Systems Analysts (SOC 15-1211) 82
- Electronics Engineers, Except Computer 79
- Network and Computer Systems Administrators* 46
Industries
- All Other Financial Investment Activities 540
- Miscellaneous Financial Investment Activities 423
- Custom Computer Programming Services 400
- Computer Systems Design and Related Services 142
- Limited-Service Restaurants 104
- Computer Storage Device Manufacturing 73
- Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers 71
- Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools 61
- Medicinal and Botanical Manufacturing 59
- Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing 58
Countries of citizenship
Worker's education
- Master's 1,012
- Bachelor's 659
- None 90
- Doctorate 79
- Other 24
- High School 11
- Associate's 9
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 1,596
- L-1 89
- F-1 53
- NOT IN USA 27
- O-1 12
- TN 12
- H-4 7
- B-2 6
- E-2 6
- F-2 3
H-1B in Durham, NC
20,518 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 19,732 (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.
Employers, certified LCAs since FY2024
- Fidelity Technology Group, LLC 2,609
- Duke University 569
- IBM Corporation 434
- COMPUNNEL SOFTWARE GROUP, INC 285
- Google LLC 150
- NetApp, Inc. 146
- cognizant-technology-solutions-us-corporation 128
- Duke University Health System 109
- Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings 99
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company 85
Jobs, certified LCAs since FY2024
- Software Developers 4,233
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 587
- Computer Systems Analysts 414
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 283
- Data Scientists 283
- Biochemists and Biophysicists 225
- Computer Programmers 164
- Computer and Information Systems Managers 138
- Database Administrators 109
- Electronics Engineers, Except Computer 109
Where Durham, NC sits
- Counties
- Durham, Orange and Wake counties
- Census places Durham city in all three
- Metro area
- Durham-Chapel Hill, NC
- Metropolitan statistical area
- DOL wage area
- Durham-Chapel Hill, NC
- For Durham County, at the city's center. Its counties sit in two wage areas
97.6 is BEA's price level for the Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 98.9. A salary here buys about 102% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.
- Software Developers522 PERM decisions
- Statisticians101 PERM decisions
- Computer and Information Systems Managers91 PERM decisions
- Computer Systems Analysts82 PERM decisions
- Electronics Engineers, Except Computer79 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 | $135,620 | $105,955 | $127,067 | $148,179 | $169,291 |
| Statisticians | $103,290 | $82,410 | $99,507 | $116,584 | $133,682 |
| Computer and Information Systems Managers | $176,190 | $129,917 | $160,763 | $191,630 | $222,477 |
| Computer Systems Analysts | $106,410 | $83,283 | $98,987 | $114,670 | $130,374 |
| Electronics Engineers, Except Computer | $155,680 | $98,280 | $121,326 | $144,394 | $167,440 |
Any job in any area, and every wage year since 2021-22, in the wage-level tool.
The jobs filed most in Durham, NC: what employers in the metro report paying everyone in each, and DOL's four prevailing wage levels there. More
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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