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PERM jobs in Kirkland, WA

Decisions
1,771
Approved
99.0%
Median certified wage
$119,350
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  • withdrawn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Fiscal year Certified Denied Withdrawn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 93 0 1
FY2017 114 2 1
FY2018 122 2 2
FY2019 152 0 0
FY2020 194 0 1
FY2021 198 1 3
FY2022 115 4 5
FY2023 455 7 11
FY2024 187 1 2
FY2025 55 0 2
FY2026 38 1 2

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Top occupations

Industries

Countries of citizenship

Worker's education

  • Master's 1,122
  • Bachelor's 439
  • Doctorate 78
  • None 19
  • Other 7
  • High School 4
  • Associate's 1

Visa held when filed

  • H-1B 1,270
  • F-1 191
  • L-1 79
  • TN 71
  • E-3 14
  • E-2 9
  • NOT IN USA 6
  • H-4 4
  • L-2 3
  • H-1B1 3

H-1B in Kirkland, WA

6,056 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 5,849 (97%). 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 1,813
  2. Data Scientists 119
  3. Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 115
  4. Computer and Information Systems Managers 71
  5. Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 34
  6. Mechanical Engineers 26
  7. Sales Engineers 24
  8. Computer and Information Research Scientists 22
  9. Statisticians 18
  10. Manufacturing Engineers 16

Where Kirkland, WA sits

County
King County
Census places Kirkland city in it
Metro area
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
Metropolitan statistical area
DOL wage area
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27

111.1 is BEA's price level for the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 151.3. A salary here buys about 90% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.

What these jobs pay in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA BLS May 2025, DOL wage year 2026-27
  • Software Developers
    54 PERM decisions
  • Statisticians
    26 PERM decisions
  • Computer and Information Systems Managers
    25 PERM decisions
  • Financial Analysts
    13 PERM decisions
  • Data Scientists
    10 PERM decisions
  • Multimedia Artists and Animators
    10 PERM decisions
$100k$200k$300k
  • 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 $167,280 $111,613 $143,104 $174,595 $206,086
Statisticians $105,650 $90,605 $102,003 $113,422 $124,821
Computer and Information Systems Managers $214,680 $146,453 $188,718 $230,963 $273,229
Financial Analysts $124,790 $84,926 $106,579 $128,253 $149,906
Data Scientists $164,740 $93,912 $127,026 $160,118 $193,232
Multimedia Artists and Animators $134,120 $80,267 $111,862 $143,478 $175,074

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

The jobs filed most in Kirkland, WA: 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?