Updated
PERM jobs in Fort Worth, TX
- Decisions
- 1,386
- Approved
- 95.0%
- Median certified wage
- $95,370
- 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- withdrawn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| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |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 | 170 | 11 | 5 |
| FY2017 | 136 | 21 | 6 |
| FY2018 | 152 | 13 | 1 |
| FY2019 | 102 | 3 | 4 |
| FY2020 | 79 | 2 | 4 |
| FY2021 | 98 | 3 | 2 |
| FY2022 | 92 | 3 | 3 |
| FY2023 | 54 | 6 | 7 |
| FY2024 | 87 | 0 | 7 |
| FY2025 | 155 | 4 | 6 |
| FY2026 | 137 | 0 | 13 |
Top sponsors
- American Airlines, Inc. 234
- MUY HAMBURGER PARTNERS, LLC 61
- AIG TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 37
- Alcon Vision, LLC 36
- Alcon Research, LLC 35
- FORT WORTH INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 32
- S&B INDUSTRY, INC. 27
- Hospitalist Medicine Physicians of Texas, PLLC 24
- Texas Christian University 23
- BNSF Railway Company 22
Top occupations
- Software Developers, Applications 164
- Software Developers 72
- Combined Food Preparation and Serving Workers, Including Fast Food 61
- Operations Research Analysts 48
- Computer Systems Analysts 47
- Statisticians 45
- Accountants and Auditors 40
- Software Developers, Systems Software 37
- Network and Computer Systems Administrators* 36
- Industrial Engineers 34
Industries
- Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation 233
- Pharmaceutical Preparation Manufacturing 90
- Food Services and Drinking Places 62
- Custom Computer Programming Services 53
- Insurance Carriers 49
- Engineering Services 42
- Elementary and Secondary Schools 39
- Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) 37
- Electromedical and Electrotherapeutic Apparatus Manufacturing 34
- Consumer Lending 33
Countries of citizenship
Worker's education
- Master's 470
- Bachelor's 294
- None 142
- Other 58
- Doctorate 51
- High School 21
- Associate's 16
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 696
- NOT IN USA 76
- F-1 66
- L-1 44
- E-2 32
- TN 21
- B-2 10
- F-2 5
- TPS 4
- B-1 3
H-1B in Fort Worth, TX
8,328 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 7,944 (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.
Employers, certified LCAs since FY2024
Jobs, certified LCAs since FY2024
- Software Developers 1,341
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 363
- Operations Research Analysts 247
- Data Scientists 151
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 108
- Computer Programmers 104
- Manufacturing Engineers 86
- Computer Systems Analysts 81
- Computer and Information Systems Managers 58
- Network and Computer Systems Administrators 56
Where Fort Worth, TX sits
- Counties
- Denton, Johnson, Parker, Tarrant and Wise counties
- Census places Fort Worth city in all five
- Metro area
- Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
- Metropolitan statistical area
- DOL wage area
- Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
- The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27
103.1 is BEA's price level for the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 117.9. A salary here buys about 97% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.
- Software Developers72 PERM decisions
- Operations Research Analysts48 PERM decisions
- Statisticians45 PERM decisions
- Accountants and Auditors40 PERM decisions
- Industrial Engineers34 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 | $133,290 | $95,202 | $116,896 | $138,590 | $160,285 |
| Operations Research Analysts | $106,380 | $68,307 | $90,834 | $113,381 | $135,907 |
| Statisticians | $104,090 | $68,016 | $88,275 | $108,534 | $128,794 |
| Accountants and Auditors | $82,620 | $61,381 | $76,877 | $92,352 | $107,848 |
| Industrial Engineers | $105,640 | $80,517 | $97,261 | $113,984 | $130,728 |
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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