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PERM jobs in Framingham, MA

Decisions
705
Approved
97.2%
Median certified wage
$109,000
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 97 0 2
FY2017 64 0 1
FY2018 54 0 0
FY2019 43 3 3
FY2020 41 2 2
FY2021 59 0 5
FY2022 58 3 0
FY2023 42 3 5
FY2024 88 5 3
FY2025 54 1 2
FY2026 63 2 0

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Top occupations

Industries

Countries of citizenship

  • India 318
  • Brazil 94
  • China 53
  • Ireland 10
  • Canada 8
  • Mexico 7
  • Iran 7
  • Ghana 4
  • Lebanon 4
  • United Kingdom 4

Worker's education

  • Master's 232
  • Bachelor's 197
  • None 70
  • High School 22
  • Other 20
  • Doctorate 19
  • Associate's 4

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 391
  • B-2 35
  • NOT IN USA 29
  • F-1 22
  • E-2 9
  • L-1 8
  • H-4 4
  • TPS 3
  • J-1 2
  • EWI 2

H-1B in Framingham, MA

2,905 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 2,774 (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.

Jobs, certified LCAs since FY2024

  1. Software Developers 282
  2. Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 132
  3. Data Scientists 82
  4. Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 67
  5. Operations Research Analysts 42
  6. Computer and Information Systems Managers 35
  7. Manufacturing Engineers 28
  8. Biochemists and Biophysicists 21
  9. Network and Computer Systems Administrators 21
  10. Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education 18

Where Framingham, MA sits

County
Middlesex County
Census places Framingham city in it
Metro area
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH
Metropolitan statistical area
DOL wage area
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH
The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27

108.3 is BEA's price level for the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 148.4. A salary here buys about 92% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.

What these jobs pay in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH BLS May 2025, DOL wage year 2026-27
  • Software Developers
    35 PERM decisions
  • Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive
    30 PERM decisions
  • Industrial Engineers
    17 PERM decisions
  • Marketing Managers
    16 PERM decisions
  • Statisticians
    15 PERM decisions
  • Computer and Information Systems Managers
    13 PERM decisions
$100k$200k$300k
  • 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
Software Developers $166,090 $114,275 $138,237 $162,198 $186,160
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive $59,330 $44,554 $51,938 $59,322 $66,706
Industrial Engineers $118,970 $89,149 $104,541 $119,933 $135,325
Marketing Managers $213,910 $142,064 $179,234 $216,403 $253,573
Statisticians $102,320 $76,960 $98,342 $119,746 $141,128
Computer and Information Systems Managers $214,960 $151,570 $185,765 $219,960 $254,155

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

The jobs filed most in Framingham, MA: 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.

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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Waiting on a PERM case?

  • When it'll likely be decided
  • An email when DOL moves it

It's on your ETA-9089 receipt. A case number looks like G-100-26125-868956.

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