Updated
PERM jobs in Lincoln, NE
- Decisions
- 578
- Approved
- 94.0%
- Median certified wage
- $48,880
- 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- withdrawn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| Fiscal year | Certified | Denied | Withdrawn |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 | 24 | 1 | 0 |
| FY2017 | 30 | 1 | 2 |
| FY2018 | 42 | 1 | 0 |
| FY2019 | 24 | 0 | 1 |
| FY2020 | 24 | 1 | 0 |
| FY2021 | 29 | 1 | 2 |
| FY2022 | 49 | 2 | 0 |
| FY2023 | 102 | 13 | 1 |
| FY2024 | 54 | 12 | 2 |
| FY2025 | 102 | 1 | 4 |
| FY2026 | 50 | 1 | 2 |
Top sponsors
- UNIVERSAL PURE COLD STORAGE, LLC 85
- UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKALINCOLN 74
- American Union Ventures INC. DBA Am. Recycling 65
- Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. 26
- Sysco Lincoln, Inc. 25
- K2 REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT LLC 22
- Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska 21
- Advantage Trucking LLC 21
- DRM, Inc. 19
- Mindy's Nails 17
Top occupations
- Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand 110
- Production Workers, All Other 65
- Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers 42
- Business Teachers, Postsecondary 32
- Software Developers, Applications 28
- Software Developers 27
- Fast Food and Counter Workers 19
- Manicurists and Pedicurists 17
- Statisticians 16
- Software Developers, Systems Software 9
Industries
- Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools 96
- Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage 85
- Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesalers 65
- General Line Grocery Merchant Wholesalers 25
- Direct Life Insurance Carriers 22
- Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction 22
- General Freight Trucking 21
- Limited-Service Restaurants 20
- Nail Salons 17
- Consumer Lending 16
Countries of citizenship
Worker's education
- None 191
- Master's 100
- Doctorate 63
- Bachelor's 45
- High School 5
- Other 5
- Associate's 2
Visa held when filed
- H-1B 173
- NOT IN USA 49
- F-1 18
- L-1 4
- J-1 3
- E-2 2
- B-2 2
- H-2B 2
- TN 1
- F-2 1
H-1B in Lincoln, NE
1,684 labor condition applications name a worksite here, FY2020 to FY2026, and DOL certified 1,591 (94%). An LCA is the employer's wage attestation before an H-1B petition, so it counts positions offered. It doesn't count people hired.
Employers, certified LCAs since FY2024
- Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska 242
- Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. 24
- The State of Nebraska, Department of Transportation 15
- COOLSOFT LLC 14
- Zoetis, Inc. 14
- Orion Systems Integrators LLC 11
- Fiserv Solutions, LLC 9
- NTT DATA Services, LLC 9
- University of Nebraska Medical Center 9
- Alegent Creighton Clinic 7
Jobs, certified LCAs since FY2024
- Software Developers 131
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 44
- Soil and Plant Scientists 26
- Biochemists and Biophysicists 22
- Data Scientists 21
- Civil Engineers 21
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 17
- Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary 17
- Computer Programmers 14
- Computer Systems Analysts 12
Where Lincoln, NE sits
- County
- Lancaster County
- Census places Lincoln city in it
- Metro area
- Lincoln, NE
- Metropolitan statistical area
- DOL wage area
- Lincoln, NE
- The area DOL sets prevailing wages for, wage year 2026-27
91.6 is BEA's price level for the Lincoln, NE metro area in 2024, against 100 for the country as a whole; for housing rents it's 84.2. A salary here buys about 109% of what the same salary buys at the national price level.
- Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand110 PERM decisions
- Production Workers, All Other65 PERM decisions
- Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers42 PERM decisions
- Business Teachers, Postsecondary32 PERM decisions
- Software Developers27 PERM decisions
- Fast Food and Counter Workers19 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
| Job | BLS median | Level I | Level II | Level III | Level IV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand | $40,450 | $33,966 | $37,814 | $41,683 | $45,531 |
| Production Workers, All Other | $38,400 | $33,987 | $36,691 | $39,416 | $42,120 |
| Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers | $81,790 | $52,666 | $62,816 | $72,946 | $83,096 |
| Business Teachers, Postsecondary | $102,190 | $59,500 | $93,563 | $127,627 | $161,690 |
| Software Developers | $101,690 | $71,594 | $88,691 | $105,789 | $122,886 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $28,510 | $28,080 | $29,224 | $30,389 | $31,533 |
Any job in any area, and every wage year since 2021-22, in the wage-level tool.
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.
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