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PERM jobs in Indianapolis, IN

Decisions
3,268
Approved
95.3%
Median certified wage
$75,000
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 253 10 10
FY2017 225 5 13
FY2018 211 20 8
FY2019 176 11 7
FY2020 125 7 11
FY2021 215 2 3
FY2022 167 6 19
FY2023 247 70 4
FY2024 291 9 50
FY2025 564 1 12
FY2026 501 5 10

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Countries of citizenship

Worker's education

  • Master's 702
  • Bachelor's 563
  • None 440
  • Doctorate 170
  • Other 107
  • High School 82
  • Associate's 13

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 1,305
  • NOT IN USA 277
  • F-1 98
  • L-1 52
  • H-2B 29
  • TN 26
  • E-2 23
  • B-2 19
  • O-1 7
  • J-1 6

H-1B in Indianapolis, IN

12,301 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 11,474 (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 919
  2. Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 620
  3. Data Scientists 257
  4. Computer Systems Analysts 178
  5. Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 156
  6. Manufacturing Engineers 147
  7. Hospitalists 127
  8. Civil Engineers 113
  9. Statisticians 107
  10. Mechanical Engineers 98

Where Indianapolis, IN sits

County
Marion County
Census places Indianapolis city (balance) in it
Metro area
Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN
Metropolitan statistical area
DOL wage area
Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN
The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27

95.7 is BEA's price level for the Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 88.9. A salary here buys about 104% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.

What these jobs pay in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN BLS May 2025, DOL wage year 2026-27
  • Helpers--Production Workers
    691 PERM decisions
  • Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers
    174 PERM decisions
  • Packers and Packagers, Hand
    119 PERM decisions
  • Software Developers
    91 PERM decisions
  • Statisticians
    87 PERM decisions
  • Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
    82 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
Helpers--Production Workers $38,540 $34,902 $38,064 $41,205 $44,366
Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers $38,180 $32,822 $36,878 $40,914 $44,970
Packers and Packagers, Hand $37,040 $32,032 $36,254 $40,477 $44,699
Software Developers $106,870 $77,667 $95,805 $113,942 $132,080
Statisticians $84,570 $39,666 $69,659 $99,653 $129,646
Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners $36,850 $29,162 $33,093 $37,045 $40,976

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

The jobs filed most in Indianapolis, IN: 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.

Don't have the number?