Updated
PERM jobs in East Palo Alto, CA
- Decisions
- 718
- Approved
- 99.9%
- Median certified wage
- $120,931
- 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- withdrawn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| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |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 | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 36 | 0 | 3 |
| FY2018 | 58 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2019 | 27 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2020 | 41 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2021 | 138 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2022 | 123 | 1 | 1 |
| FY2023 | 194 | 0 | 5 |
| FY2024 | 58 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| FY2026 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Top sponsors
- AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC 238
- AMAZON DEVELOPMENT CENTER U.S., INC 174
- AMAZON WEB SERVICES, INC. 174
- AMAZON CORPORATE LLC 97
- AMAZON FULFILLMENT SERVICES, INC. 13
- DLA Piper LLP US 3
- A2Z DEVELOPMENT CENTER, INC. 3
- CLOUDCAR 3
- A100 US LLC 3
- Greenberg Traurig, LLP 2
Top occupations
Industries
- Electronic Shopping and Mail-Order Houses (NAICS 454111) 664
- Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services 36
- Offices of Lawyers 4
- Other Computer Related Services 3
- Custom Computer Programming Services 3
- Electronic Shopping and Mail-Order Houses (NAICS 45411) 2
- All Other Miscellaneous Retailers 1
- Legal Services 1
- Professional Employer Organizations 1
- Software Publishers 1
Countries of citizenship
Worker's education
- Master's 528
- Bachelor's 154
- Doctorate 20
- None 8
- Other 6
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 602
- L-1 45
- F-1 45
- TN 12
- L-2 2
- E-3 2
- H-4 1
- NOT IN USA 1
- O-1 1
- E-2 1
H-1B in East Palo Alto, CA
2,759 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 2,737 (99%). 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 829
- Computer and Information Systems Managers 57
- Operations Research Analysts 55
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 46
- Graphic Designers 27
- Computer and Information Research Scientists 25
- Data Scientists 24
- Database Administrators 13
- Information Security Analysts 7
- Data Warehousing Specialists 5
Where East Palo Alto, CA sits
- County
- San Mateo County
- Census places East Palo Alto city in it
- Metro area
- San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA
- Metropolitan statistical area
- DOL wage area
- San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA
- The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27
115.6 is BEA's price level for the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 194.7. A salary here buys about 86% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.
- Software Developers23 PERM decisions
- Statisticians18 PERM decisions
- Computer and Information Systems Managers14 PERM decisions
- Graphic Designers10 PERM decisions
- Lawyers6 PERM decisions
- Sales Engineers6 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 | $186,640 | $137,093 | $165,131 | $193,149 | $221,187 |
| Statisticians | — | $81,869 | $111,176 | $140,483 | $169,790 |
| Computer and Information Systems Managers | $232,890 | $167,565 | $208,104 | $248,643 | $289,182 |
| Graphic Designers | $92,050 | $58,947 | $80,434 | $101,899 | $123,386 |
| Lawyers | $212,500 | $115,648 | $176,051 | $236,454 | $296,858 |
| Sales Engineers | $151,610 | $97,032 | $125,694 | $154,378 | $183,040 |
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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