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PERM jobs in Fremont, CA

Decisions
5,856
Approved
94.3%
Median certified wage
$123,115
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 762 41 48
FY2017 407 100 24
FY2018 516 61 26
FY2019 446 39 16
FY2020 390 14 17
FY2021 447 7 18
FY2022 527 15 36
FY2023 313 19 29
FY2024 455 17 34
FY2025 567 2 21
FY2026 427 2 13

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Top occupations

Industries

Countries of citizenship

Worker's education

  • Master's 2,540
  • Bachelor's 1,721
  • None 215
  • Doctorate 202
  • Other 56
  • Associate's 30
  • High School 22

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 3,920
  • F-1 182
  • L-1 174
  • NOT IN USA 128
  • TN 48
  • E-2 38
  • H-4 35
  • O-1 20
  • E-3 20
  • L-2 16

H-1B in Fremont, CA

18,944 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 18,076 (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 1,610
  2. Manufacturing Engineers 780
  3. Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 544
  4. Mechanical Engineers 487
  5. Data Scientists 383
  6. Materials Engineers 287
  7. Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 276
  8. Computer Programmers 204
  9. Logistics Analysts 194
  10. Electrical Engineers 193

Where Fremont, CA sits

County
Alameda County
Census places Fremont 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.

What these jobs pay in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA BLS May 2025, DOL wage year 2026-27
  • Industrial Engineers
    334 PERM decisions
  • Software Developers
    325 PERM decisions
  • Mechanical Engineers
    244 PERM decisions
  • Materials Engineers
    216 PERM decisions
  • Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
    131 PERM decisions
  • Electronics Engineers, Except Computer
    110 PERM decisions

Each row has its own scale, marked at its ends: these jobs pay too differently to share one. The table compares them.

  • 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
Industrial Engineers $132,230 $96,096 $117,624 $139,131 $160,659
Software Developers $186,640 $137,093 $165,131 $193,149 $221,187
Mechanical Engineers $161,370 $110,510 $134,493 $158,454 $182,437
Materials Engineers $129,480 $88,150 $110,843 $133,557 $156,250
Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners $44,180 $38,813 $43,742 $48,672 $53,602
Electronics Engineers, Except Computer $162,440 $108,846 $138,528 $168,189 $197,870

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

The jobs filed most in Fremont, CA: 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.

Cite this page

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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