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PERM jobs in Garland, TX

Decisions
296
Approved
94.0%
Median certified wage
$56,347
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 46 1 2
FY2017 25 2 0
FY2018 18 2 0
FY2019 13 0 0
FY2020 10 0 1
FY2021 27 3 0
FY2022 26 0 0
FY2023 9 4 5
FY2024 6 2 2
FY2025 56 2 3
FY2026 29 1 1

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Countries of citizenship

Worker's education

  • Bachelor's 76
  • None 56
  • Master's 48
  • High School 10
  • Other 8
  • Associate's 4
  • Doctorate 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 72
  • NOT IN USA 33
  • TN 33
  • F-1 27
  • B-2 4
  • L-1 4
  • F-2 3
  • E-2 3
  • E-3 1
  • EWI 1

H-1B in Garland, TX

561 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 527 (94%). 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 54
  2. Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 22
  3. Accountants and Auditors 16
  4. Data Scientists 14
  5. Manufacturing Engineers 9
  6. Mechanical Engineers 9
  7. Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 9
  8. Computer Systems Analysts 6
  9. Electrical Engineers 6
  10. Logistics Analysts 6

Where Garland, TX sits

Counties
Collin, Dallas and Rockwall counties
Census places Garland city in all three
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.

What these jobs pay in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX BLS May 2025, DOL wage year 2026-27
  • Electrical and Electronic Equipment Assemblers
    23 PERM decisions
  • Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education
    20 PERM decisions
  • Spa Managers
    17 PERM decisions
  • First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers
    14 PERM decisions
  • Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
    11 PERM decisions
  • Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists
    10 PERM decisions
$50k$100k
  • 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
Electrical and Electronic Equipment Assemblers — $35,152 $41,683 $48,194 $54,725
Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education $65,070 $56,330 $60,843 $65,357 $69,870
Spa Managers $63,370 $37,586 $52,312 $67,038 $81,765
First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers $47,320 $33,114 $41,912 $50,731 $59,530
Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners $31,670 $26,312 $29,370 $32,448 $35,506
Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists $75,240 $48,630 $66,269 $83,886 $101,525

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

The jobs filed most in Garland, TX: 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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