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PERM jobs in Elkton, MD

Decisions
168
Approved
92.4%
Median certified wage
$24,336
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 3 0 1
FY2017 5 1 0
FY2018 8 1 1
FY2019 8 1 1
FY2020 22 2 3
FY2021 25 4 0
FY2022 23 0 1
FY2023 15 2 0
FY2024 14 0 0
FY2025 9 0 4
FY2026 13 1 0

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Industries

  • Other Spectator Sports 71
  • Racetracks 47
  • Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing (NAICS 33911) 10
  • Landscaping Services (NAICS 561730) 5
  • General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 5
  • Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing 4
  • Printing and Related Support Activities 3
  • Landscaping Services (NAICS 56173) 3
  • Nonwoven Fabric Mills 3
  • Medical Equipment and Supplies Manufacturing (NAICS 3391) 3

Countries of citizenship

  • Mexico 93
  • India 14
  • United Kingdom 5
  • Canada 3
  • Guatemala 3
  • Italy 3
  • China 3
  • France 2
  • Venezuela 2
  • Brazil 2

Worker's education

  • None 108
  • Other 9
  • Master's 8
  • High School 6
  • Bachelor's 4
  • Doctorate 3

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 22
  • H-2B 17
  • TN 1
  • L-1 1
  • P-1 1

H-1B in Elkton, MD

199 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 189 (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.

Where Elkton, MD sits

County
Cecil County
Census places Elkton town in it
Metro area
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
Metropolitan statistical area
DOL wage area
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27

102.6 is BEA's price level for the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 113.1. A salary here buys about 98% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.

What these jobs pay in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD BLS May 2025, DOL wage year 2026-27
  • Nonfarm Animal Caretakers
    119 PERM decisions
  • Biomedical Engineers
    10 PERM decisions
  • Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers
    5 PERM decisions
  • Materials Engineers
    3 PERM decisions
  • Industrial Engineers
    3 PERM decisions
  • Software Developers
    2 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
Nonfarm Animal Caretakers $34,970 $28,933 $33,114 $37,294 $41,475
Biomedical Engineers $125,760 $83,574 $102,211 $120,848 $139,485
Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers $42,130 $34,923 $39,062 $43,202 $47,341
Materials Engineers $125,190 $82,285 $104,458 $126,630 $148,803
Industrial Engineers $103,370 $81,162 $97,198 $113,256 $129,293
Software Developers $133,040 $91,874 $113,859 $135,824 $157,810

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

The jobs filed most in Elkton, MD: 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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