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PERM jobs in Geneva, IL

Decisions
115
Approved
98.3%
Median certified wage
$30,030
Years
FY2017 to FY2025

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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn
FY2017 0 1 0
FY2018 5 0 0
FY2019 0 0 0
FY2020 0 0 0
FY2021 0 0 0
FY2022 2 0 0
FY2023 0 0 0
FY2024 0 1 0
FY2025 106 0 0

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Industries

  • Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage 105
  • Roofing Contractors 2
  • Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences 2
  • Powder Metallurgy Part Manufacturing 2
  • Fabricated Pipe and Pipe Fitting Manufacturing 1
  • Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services 1
  • Offices of Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists, and Audiologists 1
  • Custom Computer Programming Services 1

Countries of citizenship

  • India 4
  • Taiwan 2
  • Poland 1
  • Philippines 1
  • China 1

Worker's education

  • Master's 5
  • Bachelor's 3
  • High School 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 5
  • F-1 2
  • NOT IN USA 1

H-1B in Geneva, IL

29 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 24 (83%). 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 Geneva, IL sits

County
Kane County
Census places Geneva city in it
Metro area
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN
Metropolitan statistical area
DOL wage area
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN
The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27

103.6 is BEA's price level for the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 112.0. A salary here buys about 97% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.

What these jobs pay in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN BLS May 2025, DOL wage year 2026-27
  • Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
    105 PERM decisions
  • Industrial Engineers
    3 PERM decisions
  • Carpenters
    1 PERM decisions
  • Roofers
    1 PERM decisions
  • Natural Sciences Managers
    1 PERM decisions
  • Occupational Therapists
    1 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
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand $40,550 $34,216 $38,667 $43,098 $47,549
Industrial Engineers $101,760 $75,421 $91,146 $106,891 $122,616
Carpenters $80,440 $48,173 $65,562 $82,930 $100,318
Roofers $82,090 $52,333 $66,602 $80,870 $95,139
Natural Sciences Managers $167,040 $102,752 $138,570 $174,408 $210,226
Occupational Therapists $99,860 $75,379 $88,317 $101,275 $114,213

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

The jobs filed most in Geneva, IL: 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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