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PERM jobs in Iowa City, IA

Decisions
362
Approved
98.3%
Median certified wage
$125,000
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 64 0 1
FY2017 40 2 0
FY2018 50 2 3
FY2019 36 1 1
FY2020 47 0 2
FY2021 18 0 0
FY2022 24 0 2
FY2023 18 1 0
FY2024 18 0 1
FY2025 22 0 0
FY2026 9 0 0

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Top occupations

Industries

Countries of citizenship

  • India 93
  • China 43
  • Canada 16
  • South Korea 15
  • Japan 13
  • Thailand 12
  • Pakistan 11
  • Brazil 11
  • Iran 10
  • Jordan 9

Worker's education

  • Other 161
  • Doctorate 98
  • Master's 55
  • Bachelor's 14
  • High School 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 291
  • J-1 15
  • F-1 12
  • TPS 5
  • J-2 1
  • E-3 1
  • O-1 1

H-1B in Iowa City, IA

2,027 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 1,925 (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. Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other 141
  2. Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists 76
  3. Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary 59
  4. General Internal Medicine Physicians 53
  5. Anesthesiologists 44
  6. Radiologists 40
  7. Molecular and Cellular Biologists 30
  8. Dentists, General 22
  9. Pediatricians, General 22
  10. Business Teachers, Postsecondary 20

Where Iowa City, IA sits

County
Johnson County
Census places Iowa City city in it
Metro area
Iowa City, IA
Metropolitan statistical area
DOL wage area
Iowa City, IA
The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27

91.5 is BEA's price level for the Iowa City, IA metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 84.0. A salary here buys about 109% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.

What these jobs pay in Iowa City, IA BLS May 2025, DOL wage year 2026-27
  • Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary
    113 PERM decisions
  • Business Teachers, Postsecondary
    17 PERM decisions
  • Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary
    15 PERM decisions
  • Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists
    11 PERM decisions
  • Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary
    8 PERM decisions
  • Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary
    8 PERM decisions
$50k$100k$150k$200k$250k
  • 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
Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary — $90,280 $149,700 $209,120 $268,540
Business Teachers, Postsecondary — $54,970 $89,340 $123,710 $158,080
Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary — $57,500 $73,143 $88,787 $104,430
Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists $81,580 $66,248 $74,963 $83,678 $92,394
Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary — $89,200 $117,053 $144,907 $172,760
Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary — $63,620 $81,920 $100,220 $118,520

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

The jobs filed most in Iowa City, IA: 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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