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PERM jobs in Irvine, CA

Decisions
6,131
Approved
96.3%
Median certified wage
$105,664
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 605 22 25
FY2017 428 37 13
FY2018 595 29 15
FY2019 428 22 11
FY2020 412 21 11
FY2021 494 14 16
FY2022 470 19 23
FY2023 478 20 42
FY2024 534 14 47
FY2025 658 8 37
FY2026 539 13 31

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Top occupations

Industries

Countries of citizenship

Worker's education

  • Master's 2,346
  • Bachelor's 1,617
  • None 346
  • Doctorate 210
  • Other 89
  • High School 66
  • Associate's 50

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 2,730
  • F-1 444
  • L-1 353
  • E-2 155
  • TN 133
  • NOT IN USA 109
  • J-1 36
  • B-2 36
  • E-3 20
  • O-1 16

H-1B in Irvine, CA

19,273 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 18,314 (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. Software Developers 1,706
  2. Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 623
  3. Mechanical Engineers 513
  4. Data Scientists 397
  5. Accountants and Auditors 305
  6. Electronics Engineers, Except Computer 288
  7. Manufacturing Engineers 227
  8. Electrical Engineers 218
  9. Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 211
  10. Search Marketing Strategists 188

Where Irvine, CA sits

County
Orange County
Census places Irvine 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
  • Software Developers
    326 PERM decisions
  • Electronics Engineers, Except Computer
    272 PERM decisions
  • Mechanical Engineers
    263 PERM decisions
  • Accountants and Auditors
    219 PERM decisions
  • Electrical Engineers
    193 PERM decisions
  • Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists
    131 PERM decisions
$50k$100k$150k$200k
  • 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
Software Developers $160,920 $106,787 $134,202 $161,637 $189,051
Electronics Engineers, Except Computer $140,530 $97,261 $122,803 $148,366 $173,909
Mechanical Engineers $123,900 $82,618 $103,168 $123,739 $144,290
Accountants and Auditors $94,360 $64,314 $81,931 $99,570 $117,187
Electrical Engineers $139,780 $89,794 $117,645 $145,475 $173,326
Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists $82,990 $55,370 $75,546 $95,722 $115,898

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

The jobs filed most in Irvine, 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.

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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