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PERM jobs in Glendale, CA

Decisions
1,192
Approved
94.9%
Median certified wage
$64,084
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 114 2 14
FY2017 126 8 7
FY2018 107 3 3
FY2019 77 6 4
FY2020 108 11 2
FY2021 77 12 2
FY2022 56 4 5
FY2023 87 3 0
FY2024 76 5 12
FY2025 161 4 3
FY2026 92 0 1

H-1B in Glendale, CA

1,641 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 1,524 (93%). 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 150
  2. Data Scientists 49
  3. Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 34
  4. Accountants and Auditors 32
  5. Search Marketing Strategists 29
  6. Database Administrators 17
  7. Computer and Information Systems Managers 16
  8. Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 14
  9. Special Effects Artists and Animators 11
  10. Computer Systems Analysts 11

Where Glendale, CA sits

County
Los Angeles County
Census places Glendale city in it
Metro area
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
Metropolitan statistical area
DOL wage area
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27

113.6 is BEA's price level for the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 170.4. A salary here buys about 88% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.

What these jobs pay in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA BLS May 2025, DOL wage year 2026-27
  • Nursing Assistants
    66 PERM decisions
  • Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
    43 PERM decisions
  • Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists
    34 PERM decisions
  • Software Developers
    32 PERM decisions
  • Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks
    29 PERM decisions
  • Accountants and Auditors
    26 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
Nursing Assistants $47,380 $42,973 $46,322 $49,670 $53,019
Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners $38,720 $35,963 $39,499 $43,014 $46,550
Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists $82,990 $55,370 $75,546 $95,722 $115,898
Software Developers $160,920 $106,787 $134,202 $161,637 $189,051
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks $58,590 $43,784 $51,688 $59,592 $67,496
Accountants and Auditors $94,360 $64,314 $81,931 $99,570 $117,187

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

The jobs filed most in Glendale, 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.

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